Resources

Blog, events and news

• Blog: the Literary Connections blog for news, discussion about topics of interest to visitors to this site.
• Events - courses and other events for teachers and students.
• News archive: older news about English, teaching and about this site. See the Literary Connections Blog for up-to-date news.

Language resources

• Language links - essential sites for teachers and students.
• Word of the day: a free email service for students and any others interested in words.

Literature resources

Literature: general resources

• Literature links - some of the most useful sites for literature teachers.
• AQA AS and A Level English Literature A - pages of links and resources for AQA A Level courses, including both the Curriculum 2000 course ('legacy specfication') and the new one.
• Books for A Level - useful texts for A Level English Literature teachers and students - with links to Amazon if you wish to purchase.
• Christmas: reflections on Christmas reading.
• First World War: links and resources for literature from and about the Great War - a topic for AQA and OCR A Level.
  • Poems of the First World War: a brief selection to download and print
  • Their name liveth for evermore: tracing the names on a war memorial
  • We will remember them: Remembrance Day passages
• Literature links
• Literary Drinkers: three extracts from Pete Bunten's new books.
• Modern literature: resources for the new AQA AS units on The Struggle for Identity in Modern Literature.
• Moon poems: Sad Steps: moon-struck poems by Sidney, Jonson, Wordsworth and Larkin.
• Poetry: 'each word has a little music of its own'
• Revision guidance: preparing for AS and A Level English Literature.
• Romanticism in English literature: books and links for this key period in literary history
• Victorian literature: pages on the literature of the Victorian period and its context.

Literature: author pages

• Alan Bennett: books and links for the 'national teddy bear'
• Blake resources: especially for AS and A Level
• Blake context: an interactive exploration of the context of Blake's life and work
• Byron: links and books for the original Byronic hero
• John Clare: links, books and some poems
• Duffy: links, books and literary connections for Carol Ann Duffy
• Frayn: links and books about Michael Frayn and some comments on his novel Spies.
• Keats: To Autumn: a sample activity from NATE's Unlocking Literature CD for GCSE poetry.
• Larkin: links and books for Philp Larkin
• Miller: links and books for Arthur Miller
• Edwin Morgan: an extract in the wall of the Scottish Parliament provoked some research and produced more poems and links
• John Ruskin: Victorian artist, critic and friend of the Pre-Raphaelites
• Shakespeare: where to find out more about the Bard
• Sheridan: links and books for Richard Brinsley Sheridan
• Victorians: Victorian authors and their context
• Oscar Wilde: links and books for Oscar Wilde
• Wordsworth: some information and links on the poet

Music

• Music: CDs that might prove useful in the classroom - or just for pleasure.

Global resources

• Global links, including the work of MirandaNet establishing communities of 'e-citizens' around the world, such as:
• MirandaNet e-Lapa project in South Africa

Teaching resources

• Books for teachers - useful books especially, but not exclusively, on English and ICT.
• Teaching resources: online sources of lesson material, images, reference and more.

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