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A-Level English Literature Unit 6 - The Representation of the First World War in Literature |
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The First World War
The study of the representation of the Great War in literature allows students to view the same topic in a wide variety of genres and from various points of view. Texts studied range from wildly patriotic poems to deeply disillusioned memoirs and range in time from the contemporary to the modern. Students develop a sense of the history of the period and how responses to the war changed with circumstances and time. In the exam they will be expected to apply their wider reading to underpin their understanding of a selection of texts. |
The First World War on the Interweb The Spartacus site is well organised and provides clear, well illustrated accounts of most aspects of the war Read Eyewitness Accounts of the conflict Wikipedia has a good overview
Virtual Seminars for teaching literature contains a wealth of detail on various aspects of the war. |
| The exam board have issued guidance on how to plan responses on this topic here |
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PowerPoint on the
causes of the
First World War PowerPoint on relevant aspects of the First World War |
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