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OCR Lit (first teaching Sept 2011): Emily Dickinson Comprehensive Guide w/audio

A comprehensive pack of teaching notes and ready-to-use student worksheets for all 15 Emily Dickinson poems for OCR Lit. It has been written specifically for OCR and, as such, understands how best to prepare students studying Emily Dickinson for this exam. Plus, professional readings of the poems recorded by Globe actor bring the poems to life.

  • Teacher’s notes range from covering all 15 poems in detail to notes on how best to approach the teaching of this selection for OCR and Dickinson’s poetic style.
  • Student worksheets range of covering all 15 poems in detail (with copies of the poems) to guides and activities on how to compare Dickinson’s poetry.

Plus! Sample exam questions on each poem with a sample essay for perfect examination preparation!

Poem Selection:

258 There’s a certain Slant of light
280 I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
328 A Bird came down the Walk –
341 After great pain, a formal feeling comes –
465 I heard a Fly buzz – when I died –
494 Going to Him! Happy letter!
501 This World is not Conclusion
510 It was not Death, for I stood up
670 One need not be a Chamber – to be Haunted –
712 Because I could not stop for Death –
721 Behind Me – dips Eternity –
754 My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun –
986 A narrow Fellow in the Grass
1100 The last Night that She lived
1400 What mystery pervades a well!