Weblinks and videos for use with 12503 – Worlds and Lives: Poetry Anthology Activity Pack for GCSE AQA
Introductory Activity
Activity One
Poem-by-Poem Activities
'England in 1819' by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Pre-reading Activities: Activity One
Pre-reading Activities: Activity Two
- Peterloo Massacre
- The Peterloo Massacre: what was it and what did it mean?
- History GCSE / National 5: What was the Peterloo Massacre of 1819?
Pre-reading Activities: Activity Three
- Ten things you didn't know about George III
- George III (r. 1760–1820)
- George III
- KING GEORGE III'S DESCENT INTO MADNESS: A TALE OF ROYAL TRAGEDY
'Shall earth no more inspire thee' by Emily Brontë
Pre-reading Activities: Activity One
'In a London Drawingroom' by George Eliot
Pre-reading Activities: Activity One
- George Eliot (1819–1880) George Eliot, British author
- Gender roles in the Victorian Era Roles Of Women In The Victorian Era
- Industrial Revolution
- Breathing in London's history: from the Great Stink to the Great Smog Too hot? In 1858 a heatwave turned London into a stinking sewer
- Working Conditions In The Victorian Era
A London Fog
'On an Afternoon train from Purley to Victoria, 1955' by James Berry
Pre-reading Activities: Activity One
Pre-reading Activities: Activity Two
During Reading Activities: Activity Two
'Name Journeys' by Raman Mundair
Pre-reading Activities: Activity Two
During Reading Activities: Activity One
'pot' by Shamshad Khan
Pre-reading Activities: Activity Two
Pre-reading Activities: Activity Three
During Reading Activities: Activity One
Post-reading Activities: Activity One
'A Wider View' by Seni Seneviratne
Pre-reading Activities: Activity One
During Reading Activities: Activity One
During Reading Activities: Activity Three
'Homing' by Liz Berry
Pre-reading Activities: Activity One
Pre-reading Activities: Activity Two
During Reading Activities: Activity One
During Reading Activities: Activity Two
'A Century Later' by Imtiaz Dharker
Pre-reading Activities: Activity One
Pre-reading Activities: Activity Three
- MALALA'S STORY
- Malala Yousafzai: Portrait of the girl blogger
- Malala Yousafzai - link 1
- Malala Yousafzai - link 2
'The Jewellery Maker' by Louisa Adjoa Parker
Pre-reading Activities: Activity One
'With Birds You're Never Lonely' by Raymond Antrobus
Pre-reading Activities: Activity One
'A Portable Paradise' by Roger Robinson
Pre-reading Activities: Activity One
'Like an Heiress' by Grace Nichols
Pre-reading Activities: Activity One
- Grace Nichols - link 1
- Grace Nichols - link 2
- Grace Nichols’ ‘pioneering voice’ wins her Queen’s gold medal for poetry
'Thirteen' by Caleb Femi
Pre-reading Activities: Activity One
- Poet Caleb Femi was shot and almost killed as a teenager. Now his new play reveals how reading Frankenstein gave him new life
- Caleb Femi: 'Henceforth I’m solely preoccupied with being a merchant of joy'
- An Interview with Caleb Femi