William Blake Poem Bundle

A Level and GCSE resources for ‘The Garden of Love’, ‘The Echoing Green’, ‘The Tiger’, ‘The Lamb’ and ‘Introduction to the Songs of Innocence’.

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 PowerPoint (with a minimum of 26 slides each) 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.

The text of these poems and associated images are available at Project Gutenberg.

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

Individual William Blake poems also available:
FREE RESOURCE: London
The Garden of Love
Introduction to the Songs of Innocence
The Tiger
The Lamb
The Echoing Green