Curated OER
Vanity Fair Part 5
High schoolers watch the fifth part of "Vanity Fair." students answer and discuss questions relating to this section of the film.
Curated OER
Gazebos and Other Worlds
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...
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Have you ever studied Lord Tennyson's work? This site features information on the life and work of this famous Victorian writer.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Victorian Literature: Introduction
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...
Other
University of Wisconsin: Victorian England: An Introduction
One page article summarizes many important characteristics of the Victorian Age such as religion, ideology, social responsibility, imperialism, and education.
Sacred Text Archive
"Stories From the Faerie Queene" by Mary Macleod
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.
Other
Gaslight: The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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.
Other
Literature Network: Lord Alfred Tennyson
What do you know about Lord Alfred Tennyson? Explore this site featuring a brief but informative summary of his life and work.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Poems of Tennyson and Noyes: Pictures in Words
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.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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...
Fundación Cientec
Cientec: La Dama De La Lampara Florence Nightingale (1820 1910)
This is a biography of Florence Nightingale, the English leader in the reform of hospitals during the Victorian era.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Herbert Spencer
(1820-1903) Spencer was an English philosopher, biologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal theorist of the Victorian era.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Charles Dickens
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.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
(1820-1880) English novelist during the Victorian era that wrote books such as Middlemarch and The Mill on the Floss
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: John Ruskin
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.