Weblinks and videos for use with 9437 – Conflict: Poetry Anthology Activity Pack for GCSE Edexcel
‘A Poison Tree’ by William Blake
After Reading Activity 3: The South Bank Show on Blake
‘The Destruction Of Sennacherib’ by Lord Bryon
After Reading Activity 3: Ted Ed – The rise and fall of the Assyrian Empire
Activity Reading Activity 3: History channel biography of Byron
‘Extract from the Prelude’ by William Wordsworth
After Reading Activity 3: A nostalgic British Pathe look at Wordsworth country
After Reading Activity 3: Wordsworth’s sense of place by the Wordsworth centre
After Reading Activity 3: Exploring Dove Cottage by Future Learn
After Reading Activity 3: The Romantics, a BBC documentary
‘The Man he Killed’ By Thomas Hardy
After Reading Activity 3: A simple animation of the poem
After Reading Activity 3: Billy Bragg’s version of the poem at Glastonbury 2014
After Reading Activity 3: Andrew Moore’s documentary (from The Making of Modern Britain) on the Boer war
‘Cousin Kate’ By Christina Rossetti
- Before Reading Activity 2: Dispelling the Victorian Myth of the Fallen Woman
- After Reading Activity 5: Gender pay gap website
After Reading Activity 3: British Library clip about gender in 19th century
After Reading Activity 3: The quality of life between the rich and poor in Victorian times
After Reading Activity 3: Five ridiculous Victorian rules
After Reading Activity 3: BBC documentary about the pre-raphaelites
‘Half Caste’ by John Agard
After Reading Activity 3: John Agard reading his poem
Activity Reading Activity 3: Half caste documentary
Activity Reading Activity 3: BBC3 documentary – things not to say to someone of mixed race
‘Exposure’ by Wilfred Owen
Before Reading Activity 1: Worst case scenario – extreme cold (Bear Grylls)
Before Reading Activity 2: Trench Life
Activity Reading Activity 3: Why trenches? With Dan Snow
Activity Reading Activity 3: Life in a trench – the History Channel
‘Charge Of The Light Brigade’ by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Before Reading Activity 1: A Brief History of...The Charge of the Light Brigade
After Reading Activity 3: Clip from the 1968 movie
Activity Reading Activity 3: Short biography
Activity Reading Activity 3: Clip from Skyfall where M reads from Ulysses
‘Catrin’ by Gillian Clarke
After Reading Activity 3: Everything you need to know about Catrin (useful to get other opinions)
After Reading Activity 3: Clarke reading her tribute to the Welsh football team
Activity Reading Activity 3: Short biography
Activity Reading Activity 3: Clip from Skyfall where M reads from Ulysses
‘War Photographer’ by Carole Satyamurti
Before Reading Activity 1: The Guardian's 1986 'Points of view' advert
Before Reading Activity 2: My photographs bear witness - James Nachtwey
Activity Reading Activity 3: James Nachtwey – we must think deeply before we commit to war
Activity Reading Activity 3: More than a thousand words – the power of images, Tedx
‘Belfast Confetti’ by Ciaran Carson
- After Reading Activity 3: BBC Bitesize clip of hip hop legend Akala discussing the poem
- After Reading Activity 3: BBC Bitesize clip of the poet himself reading his poem
- Stretch and Challenge Activity: How to read a poem consisting only of punctuation
Before Reading Activity 2: The Irish Troubles easily explained
Before Reading Activity 2: The Art Of Northern Ireland trailer
‘The Class Game’ by Mary Casey
Before Reading Activity 2: Margaret Thatcher: UK's First Female Prime Minister - Fast Facts History
After Reading Activity 3: Poll Tax riots in Brixton 1990 BBC/ITN
After Reading Activity 3: People on the streets of Liverpool react to her death – Liverpool Echo
After Reading Activity 3: Miners’ strike 30 years on – Channel 4 news
‘Poppies’ by Jane Weir
After Reading Activity 3: Jane Weir explains Poppies
After Reading Activity 3: Making the poppies – the Tower of London remembers
‘No Problem’ by Benjamin Zephaniah
Before Reading Activity 2: Portrait Of Handworth riot in 1985 - Pogus Caesar
After Reading Activity 3: BBC Newsnight programme with Zephaniah on modern racism
After Reading Activity 3: BBC Question Time on immigration myths
‘What Were They Like’ by Denise Levertov?
After Reading Activity 3: The Vietnam war simplified
After Reading Activity 3: Viet cong tunnels and traps – Discover Channel
After Reading Activity 3: Vietnam war: the real story
After Reading Activity 3: The Napalm Girl