Edgar A Poe

Listen to the tales

Do you like Sherlock Holmes?

Watch part of the first and best episode of Netflix TV series: A study in pink

The lady and the unicorn by Tracy Chevalier

The first Chapter online

The man booker prize podcasts

Listen to the episodes here

Swallows and amazons

Swallows and amazons by Arthur Ransome
You can read about BBC rewriting Swallows and amazons here

 You can watch one of the film adaptations below

Lors of the Flies by William Golding

You can download a pdf here

You can watch one of the film adaptations too.
 

Classic short stories

Read short stories. Search bu author, by title ... or click on bibliography for a list of links
Happy reading!

Podcast

Going to the USA?

 If you are, try some of the activities here

THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald - Read by Alex Wilson

   Read and listen to this story


    **link

The gift of knowledge

*Listen to audio books and download a pdf version

Robert Frost

The road not taken

Read “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost on Genius

Landscape with the fall of Icarus

Landscape with the fall of Icarus



Read “Landscape With the Fall of Icarus” by William Carlos Williams on Genius

* Landscape with the fall of Icarus  annotated

* A guide to Imagism
 

* Read “Musée des Beaux Arts” by W. H. Auden on Genius

Ekphrastic poetry. Find 12 paintings that were an inspiration to write poems

Ekphrastic Poetry. Paintings that inspired poets

Read more publications at Calaméo

Carol Ann Duffy

Read “Havisham” by Carol Ann Duffy on Genius

* Miss Havisham the poem, some more poems
* Miss Havisham Dickens and Duffy
* Miss Havisham BBC Bitesize 


* bbc education guide analysis
* Some poems 

* War photographer annotated 
* War photographer education guide 

* Mrs Midas education guide

* Anne Hathaway  education guide

Seamus Heaney

* Seamus Heany the Irish poet. A video
* Listen to Seamus Heaney reading Blackberry picking
* Reading of Death of a naturalist  
   Notes on Death of a naturalist

Poetry

"Poems are a form of texting" Carol Ann Duffy, the poet laureate, believes the fun and creativity of mobile texting will turn today's children into exciting poets of tomorrow. 

Read the article and think why you agree or disagree with her.


* An approach to reading poetry