Resources for Students: Key Stage 5
In this area you can find First World War resources to help you study and revise key stage 5 (16 - 18 years).
The Great War Poets: Connections
This mindmap will help you explore the relationships between the poets, how they were connected, and who they knew. An interactive version of the mindmap can be launched using the free mind mapping software VUE, or viewed statically as an html page or jpeg/png image.
- Type: Mind Map
- Subject: English
- Author: Stuart Lee, University of Oxford
- Download the The Great War Poets: Connections Mind Map (1.73 MB)
- Download VUE
When I'm Killed by Robert Graves
Here, students are asked to explore secondary source material then place two manuscript variants of Robert Graves' poem 'When I'm Killed' in the order they were written in. An interactive version of the mindmap can be launched using the free mind mapping software VUE, or viewed statically as an html page or jpeg/png image.
- Type: Mind Map
- Subject: English
- Author: Stuart Lee, University of Oxford
- Download the When I'm Killed Mind Map (1.2 MB)
- Download VUE
An Introduction to WW1 Poetry
An introduction to First World War poetry based around the theme of 'injury.'
- Type: Tutorial
- Subject: English
- Author: Stuart Lee, University of Oxford
- Go to the An Introduction to WW1 Poetry Online Tutorial
Isaac Rosenberg's 'Break of Day in the Trenches'
This tutorial is on the poet Isaac Rosenberg, and is based around his poem 'Break of Day in the Trenches'. It is recommended that the tutorial Introduction to WWI Poetry is studied first as this will help put Rosenberg into perspective with his contemporaries.
- Type: Tutorial
- Subject: English
- Author: Stuart Lee, University of Oxford
- Go to the Isaac Rosenberg's 'Break of Day in the Trenches' Online Tutorial
Wilfred Owen and Classical Allusion
A pathway guiding you through some of Wilfred Owen's poems that make use of the classical tradition as a source of imagery and content./p>
- Type: Pathway
- Subject: English and Classical Studies
- Author: Kate Lindsay, University of Oxford
- Go to the Wilfred Owen and Classical Allusion Pathway
Afterwards
This pathway covers the theme of 'Afterwards,' as well as several further themes ('Disillusionment,' 'Memoirs,' 'Sacrifice'). The main aim of the Pathway is to help you draw connections between works. This is especially useful for those sitting the AQA Unit 6 paper, 'Reading for Meaning.'
- Type: Pathway
- Subject: English and Classical Studies
- Author: Hannah Spencer, Bradfield College
- Go to the Afterwards Pathway
Welsh Poet Hedd Wyn
This pathway provides context for those studying the craft of the film-maker (for the film 'Hedd Wyn' - a set work for study at the Welsh Second Language exam at AS level).
- Type: Resource Pack
- Subject: Welsh Second Language
- Author: Alun Edwards, University of Oxford
- Download the Welsh Poet Hedd Wyn resource pack (32.5 MB)
- Launch the Welsh Poet Hedd Wyn Pathway
Exploring Polish Literature from 1914-18 through Old and New Technology
This resource pack is aimed A Level English Language and Literature teachers looking for alternative ways to explore how language can be shaped by the technology we use and how different modes can influence the power of a message under communication. By using Polish World War One literature and history as a focal point, this pack includes a set of student worksheets, teachers' notes, open source images, archival postcards (by kind permission of Nicolas Berchenko) and Polish songs with English translations by Katarzyna Skoczynska.
- Type: Resource Pack
- Subject: English
- Author: Sarah Wilkin, University of Oxford
- Download the Exploring Polish Literature resource pack (11 MB)