Emily Dickinson Poetry Bundle Student Worksheet and PowerPoints

A Level and GCSE resources for ‘He fumbles at your Soul’, ‘This World is not Conclusion’, ‘I like to see it lap the Miles’ and ‘Going to Heaven!’.
1 hour and 30 minutes of teaching on EACH poem. Suggestions for further activities or additional activities are also included.

Each poem has:
• A two page student worksheet with a selection of activities and questions.
• A 22 slide PowerPoint reflecting all activities on the worksheet which some extra explanation. Essay questions and an additional Emily Dickinson poem is provided for a comparison activity.
• A ten question PowerPoint comprehension quiz that can be shown on a whiteboard and students can mark their own answers.
• A lesson plan guide with the task split into three 30 minute sections. Work can, of course, be extended for longer sessions or 30 minute sessions can be put together for an hour lesson.

This resource encourages close reading, critical writing, discussion and retention of important ideas and quotations from the poems. Students can be set the work independently or the work can be presented in a more collaborative class atmosphere.

Check out a FREE RESOURCE: There’s a certain Slant of light by Emily Dickinson

The text of these poems are available at Project Gutenberg (with some slight alterations). Further details on Emily Dickinson and some manuscript versions of her poems can be found at Poetry Foundation.

All the images used in the pack are available for commercial use.