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Curated OER

Vanity Fair Part 5

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers watch the fifth part of "Vanity Fair." students answer and discuss questions relating to this section of the film.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Gazebos and Other Worlds

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Design a simple structure such as the gazebo. Work with your class to identify the six faces of a cube pattern and name other uses of patterns in industry. They draft, cut out, and assemble a cube pattern. They draw out and assemble two...
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Lesson Plan
Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Alfred, Lord Tennyson

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Have you ever studied Lord Tennyson's work? This site features information on the life and work of this famous Victorian writer.
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Victorian Literature: Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the introduction to a unit on Victorian Literature, a period describing the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901) as prudish and old fashioned, but is considered by some as a second English Renaissance, a time of wealth, power, and...
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Handout
Other

University of Wisconsin: Victorian England: An Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th
One page article summarizes many important characteristics of the Victorian Age such as religion, ideology, social responsibility, imperialism, and education.
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Website
Sacred Text Archive

"Stories From the Faerie Queene" by Mary Macleod

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a Victorian era retelling of Edmund Spenser's "Faerie Queen." Useful for getting a grip on the plot, or for comparison of language.
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eBook
Other

Gaslight: The Mystery of Edwin Drood

For Students 9th - 10th
This uncompleted novel by Charles Dickens is reproduced here in its 1912 edition. The thorough transcription indicates the revisions that both Dickens and his executor made. Be sure to read the message about copyright and permissions.
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Website
Other

Literature Network: Lord Alfred Tennyson

For Students 9th - 10th
What do you know about Lord Alfred Tennyson? Explore this site featuring a brief but informative summary of his life and work.
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Lesson Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Poems of Tennyson and Noyes: Pictures in Words

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a great and informative site. This lesson uses Tennyson's "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and Noyes's "The Highwayman" to teach vivid imagery and figurative language. Don't miss out.
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Lesson Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In-depth lesson plans for teaching Lewis Carroll's adaption of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" for younger children, named "The Nursery Alice." In addition to providing learning objectives and guiding questions, this page includes...
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Handout
Fundación Cientec

Cientec: La Dama De La Lampara Florence Nightingale (1820 1910)

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a biography of Florence Nightingale, the English leader in the reform of hospitals during the Victorian era.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Herbert Spencer

For Students 9th - 10th
(1820-1903) Spencer was an English philosopher, biologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal theorist of the Victorian era.
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Charles Dickens

For Students 9th - 10th
Charles John Huffam Dickens, (7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870), was one of the most popular English novelists of the Victorian era as well as a vigorous social campaigner.
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)

For Students 9th - 10th
(1820-1880) English novelist during the Victorian era that wrote books such as Middlemarch and The Mill on the Floss
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: John Ruskin

For Students 9th - 10th
An English author, poet and artist, although more famous for his work as art critic and social critic. Ruskin's thinking on art and architecture became the thinking of the Victorian and Edwardian eras.