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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Introducing Jane Eyre: An Unlikely Victorian Heroine

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers investigate the expectations and limitations placed on Victorian women and evaluate Charlotte Bronte's position and desire for literary achievement in using the male pseudonym, Currer Bell.
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Interactive
BBC

Bbc: History: Women's Rights in Victorian England

For Students 9th - 10th
Play this game to learn about women's cultural status in Victorian England, and learn about the progress of women's rights during the time of Queen Victoria's reign. Archived.
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Website
BBC

Bbc: History: Women and Urban Life in Victorian Britain

For Students 9th - 10th
A six part article in which the various roles women played in Victorian England are discussed. The author explores the idea that women had a "mission" in Victorian life.
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Website
Victorian Web

The Victorian Web: Charlotte Bronte

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides an elaborate overview of the life, works, and times of Charlotte Bronte. Content ranges from the genre, plot, and theme found in "Jane Eyre," to the position of middle-class women of Bronte's time, to the Boer War....
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Website
Victorian Web

Brown University: The Victorian Web

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a comprehensive resource on literary, philosophical, religious, scientific and technological advancements of the Victorian age. Learn about famous Victorian authors, literary genres and more.
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Lesson Plan
Universal Teacher

Moore's Teacher Resources: Thomas Hardy's Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This study guide for advanced young scholars explores the poetry of the English novelist Thomas Hardy (Far from the Madding Crowd, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure).
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Primary
Other

Duke University Press: Duke Journals: The Carlyle Letters Online

For Students 9th - 10th
This website is a compendium of letters written by Thomas Carlyle and his wife, Jane Welsh Carlyle, to each other and to others. You can search by date, recipient, or subject.
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Website
Universal Teacher

Moore's Teacher Resources: A Christmas Carol

For Students 9th - 10th
This teacher's guide to Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" is written to help students who are reading this book for class work.
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Activity
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: A Dickens of a Party

For Students 9th - 10th
Come to a party honoring Ebenezer Scrooge! This WebQuest is a complete "Party in a box," -- with a planning worksheet, specific tasks and roles, rubrics for evaluation and guidelines for presentation and party-going.
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Activity
Victorian Web

The Victorian Web: Works of Thomas Hardy

For Students 9th - 10th
The Victorian Web provides the online text to some of Thomas Hardy's short stories and poems. Links are provided throughout for additional information on related subjects.