Christina Rossetti Selected Poems: Activity Pack for AS and A Level OCR
Create an engaging study experience for students as they immerse themselves in the poetry by the mysterious and enigmatic Victorian writer Christina Rossetti. With a plethora of activities for each poem, subdivided into the areas of genre, theme, attitudes and values, language, structure, form, context and critical reception, this invaluable and exhaustive activity pack will enable you to mix and match to suit your class.
Really thorough and a great resource to support learners in their discussion of the anthology of poems...
...There was a range of different activities that would support pupils, particularly weaker learners
- Prepare
Pre-reading exercises provide a starting point for study - Explore
Appealing poem-by-poem tasks guide students through the collection, allowing them to gain understanding and analytical skills while remaining engaged - Reflect
Whole-text activities show the bigger picture, exploring key areas of: Characterisation • Relationships • Genre • Themes • Attitudes and Values • Writer’s use of language • Form • Structure • Context • Critical Reception
Also available with full recordings of the poems!
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This is an excellent resource - very thorough and comprehensive. Content is superb - great to see such depth in a resource. Impressive range of tasks - walkthrough activities as well as whole text activities, and also some extended writing tasks and modelled answers. The proforma for an essay looks very useful and will help students pulling all their thoughts together - clear sense of what is important and how to sequence. Contextual insights are exceptionally thorough - societal and cultural influences as well as literary influences which will deepen insight and understanding of Rossetti's poems. Critical readings and interpretations are also very detailed and useful - great to have answers too.
Comprehensively links with the OCR A Level specification. A superb and well-focused resource. Very detailed and thoughtfully developed. Focuses on the AOs and how to hit.
A very detailed exploration of Rossetti, which is logically organised and includes some useful exemplar essays, and possible essay questions and topics... The contextual introduction is really useful and offers good prompts to research... The introductions to critical readings are helpful... The prompt questions are useful... The level of detail throughout is impressive and offers detailed considerations of the poems... The resource’s comprehensiveness would support a new teacher being able to explore Rossetti and the anthology with their students.
Really thorough and a great resource to support learners in their discussion of the anthology of poems... I loved the depth of detail and the clear analysis. The way in which AS and A Level criteria were highlighted and focused on was also useful... There was a range of different activities that would support pupils, particularly weaker learners... I like the fact that the range of activities can be used both for pupils in class and also for pupils to study or revise poems outside of class... The sample essays and tasks clearly guide the learners towards exam preparation.
Keywords
- A level English Literature
- A Level OCR English Literature (H472)
- Drama and poetry pre-1900
- A Level Activity Packs
- A Level English Literature Activity Pack
- Christina Rossetti
- Poetry
- ‘Song: When I am Dead, My Dearest’
- ‘Remember’
- ‘From the Antique (‘It’s a weary life, it is, she said’)’
- ‘Echo’
- ‘Shut Out’
- ‘In the Round Tower at Jhansi (Indian Mutiny)’
- ‘A Birthday’
- ‘Soeur Louise de la Miséricorde’
- ‘Maude Clare’
- ‘Up-Hill’
- ‘No, Thank You, John’
- ‘Good Friday (Am I a stone and not a sheep?)’
- ‘Goblin Market’
- ‘Twice’
- ‘Winter: My Secret’
- Rossetti