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Activity
Repeat After Us

Repeat After Us: The Little Girl Found

For Students 9th - 10th
A poem from William Blake's Songs of Experience, "The Little Girl Found", is provided on this site. Students may listen to this poem read aloud by Gary Bodwin and can access a printable version of this piece.
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Activity
Repeat After Us

Repeat After Us: The Little Vagabond

For Students 9th - 10th
A poem from William Blake, "The Little Vagabond" from Songs of Experience, is provided on this site. Students may listen to this poem read aloud by Madeline Jacobs and can access a printable version of this piece.
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Activity
Repeat After Us

Repeat After Us: The Schoolboy

For Students 9th - 10th
A poem from William Blake's Songs of Innocence, "The Schoolboy", is provided on this site. Students may listen to this poem read aloud by Scott Becker and can access a printable version of this piece.
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Activity
Repeat After Us

Repeat After Us: The Shepherd

For Students 9th - 10th
A poem from William Blake, "The Shepherd", is provided on this site and is from the Songs of Innocence. Students may listen to this poem read aloud by Madeline Jacobs and can access a printable version of this piece.
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Activity
Repeat After Us

Repeat After Us: The Tyger

For Students 9th - 10th
A poem from William Blake, "I Often Passed the Village", is provided on this site and comes from Songs of Experience. Students may listen to this poem read aloud by Ellie Wen and can access a printable version of this piece.
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Activity
Repeat After Us

Repeat After Us: To the Evening Star

For Students 9th - 10th
"To the Evening Star", a poem written by William Blake, is provided on this site.Students may listen to this poem read aloud by Stephanie Chan and can access a printable version of this piece.
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eBook
Other

Up Word: The First Book of Urizen

For Students 9th - 10th
A verse-by-verse version of William Blake's (1757-1827 CE) First Book of Urizen is offered here at up Word. A lot of clicking, as each verse is a separate page. Not illustrated.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Poet William Blake

For Teachers 9th - 10th
As part of a unit on William Blake and his poetry, this classroom activity provides a brief classroom project and includes lesson plan ideas, web links, and additional texts.
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Handout
Bartleby

Bartleby.com: t.s. Eliot on William Blake

For Students 9th - 10th
An analytic essay written on Blake by T.S. Eliot (1888?1965) where Eliot looks at Blake's motivations.
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Graphic
Other

Early Images of the Australian Aborigines

For Students 9th - 10th
This exhibition provides images drawn from the early discovery and exploration accounts, including those of William Blake.
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Website
University of Georgia

University of Georgia: The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full collection of The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, edited by David V. Erdman. Click on the title of the desired poem or series of poems.
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Website
Academy of American Poets

Poets.org: William Blake

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a site from The Academy of American Poets about the poet William Blake (1757-1827 CE). While the primary purpose of the site is to provide a biography of the author, there are very good links on the page. By clicking on the links...
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Website
Academy of American Poets

Poets.org: W. H. Auden

For Students 9th - 10th
This Academy of American Poets webpage provides, in addition to a short overview of his life, a selected bibliography as well as hyperlinks to a number of Auden's poems such as "On the Circuit" (read by the author), "Lullaby," and "The...
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Lesson Plan
Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: William Blake

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This site features information on the life and work of William Blake.
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Handout
Other

The William Blake Archive

For Students 9th - 10th
A wealth of information about the life and work of artist William Blake. Because this archive is so vast you can conduct a search for specific works by Blake.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: "The Echoing Green"

For Students 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A poem by William Blake about spring. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: The Tyger

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "The Tyger" by William Blake, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher and...
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: The Echoing Green

For Students 7th - 8th
A learning module that begins with the poem "The Echoing Green" by William Blake, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: "A Poison Tree" by William Blake

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "A Poison Tree" byWilliam Blake, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher and...
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Book Pairings: "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas

For Students 9th - 10th
In the mid-1800s, a French sailor is unjustly imprisoned for fourteen years. He escapes, finds a fortune, and seeks revenge on the those who put him in prison. Selected (7) reading passages (grades 8-11) to pair with "The Count of Monte...
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Website
British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature:romantics &Victorians Power and Politics

For Students 9th - 10th
From the radicalism of the Romantic poets to the violent suppression of protests, the 18th and 19th centuries were peppered with incidents of political upheaval. Read how power and politics feature centrally in some of the period's great...
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Website
British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature:romantics&victorians Poverty

For Students 9th - 10th
These articles research how writers responded to the social inequalities of Victorian society.
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Website
British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature:romantics & Victorians Reading and Print

For Students 9th - 10th
How did rising literacy rates, libraries, and new technologies influence literature and reading habits during the Romantic and Victorian periods? These resources answer this question.
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Website
British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Romantics & Victorians London

For Students 9th - 10th
From Wordsworth's Westminster Bridge to Blake's Chimney Sweepers; from Dickens's pickpockets to Jack the Ripper; and from Wells's War of the Worlds to Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes; discover the diverse ways in which writers in this...