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We have now launched our new range of iBooks and Kindle editions of selected study guides. Currently the titles cover the poetry of Wilfred Owen and Edward Thomas, but more study guides will be made available in the next few weeks.
Instructions to assist users in installing these study guides on various devices are contained on the website under "Specials".
For further information or to purchase, click here for Kindle eBooks, and click here for iBooks.
We are pleased to announce that, today sees the launch of a new Teacher Resource package on our web site covering the novel BIRDSONG by Sebastian Faulks
INCLUDED in the package is a 12 month subscription to 51 web-based teaching aid "slides" together with access to all relevant analysis, synopsis, comparison and criticism (totally approximately 27,000 words) from our GWLSRC digital library, all of which is able to be viewed interactively online, or printed out.
Also included are 36 Discussion Points which can be used within the classroom, or as personal study topics. They also provide useful ideas for individual essay titles and subjects.
The aims of these "slides" are to assist teachers - either by direct use in the classroom, or as an aid to developing other areas of study. Students should, by the time they have finished using this package, be able to fully understand the novel and the literary methods employed by the author, making them better prepared for both coursework and examination modules.
This is just the fouth of our Teacher Resource Packages, adding to our existing, popular Wilfred Owen and Edward Thomas resources.
For further details of the Birdsong Teacher Resource Package, please click here.
For a demonstration of our Teacher Resource Packages, please click here, then click on "S.I.W" under "EVALUATION SAMPLE". This free sample lesson presentation is from our Wilfred Owen OCR AS F661 package and illustrates the content and layout style. Please note the supporting poem analysis and biography information for the evaluation sample is not available without a subscription.
For further details of our forthcoming titles, please click here.
Also available is our FREE online magazine at www.gwlmagazine.com which provide useful background articles and downloadable content.
We are pleased to announce that, today sees the launch of a new Teacher Resource package on our web site covering the poetry of EDWARD THOMAS within the OCR AS F661 Syllabus. The titles featured are as follows:
March; Old Man; Tears; But these things also; Melancholy; The Glory; Words; Aspens; This is no case of petty right or wrong; Rain; No one so much as you; The sun used to shine; As the team's head-brass; Gone, gone again; Lights Out.
INCLUDED in the package is a 12 month subscription to 15 web-based teaching aid presentations together with access to all relevant poetry analysis, biographical content and background information from our GWLSRC digital library, all of which is able to be viewed interactively online, or printed out.
Each of the fifteen presentations contains at least eight "slides" detailing the background, language, themes, verse form, and imagery contained within each poem, plus at least one comparison with other Thomas poetry and several "Discussion Points" for use in class or as Homework Projects.
The aims of these presentations are to assist teachers - either by direct use in the classroom, or as an aid to developing other areas of study. Students should, by the time they have finished using these packages, be able to fully understand the language and verse form used, the tone and imagery being created and the situations which Thomas is describing in his poems. In addition, students should be able to pinpoint which poems make suitable comparisons from within the OCR collection and should be better prepared for their examinations.
This is just the third of our Teacher Resource Packages, adding to our existing, popular Wilfred Owen resources.
For further details of the Edward Thomas OCR AS F661 Poetry Collection Teacher Resource Package, please click here.
For a demonstration of our Teacher Resource Packages, please click here, then click on "S.I.W" under "EVALUATION SAMPLE". This free sample lesson presentation is from our Wilfred Owen OCR AS F661 package and illustrates the content and layout style. Please note the supporting poem analysis and biography information for the evaluation sample is not available without a subscription.
For further details of our forthcoming titles, please click here.
Also availble is our FREE online magazine at www.gwlmagazine.com which provide useful background articles and downloadable content.
We are pleased to announce that we have updated and enlarged the content of our Journey's End study guides to reflect some of the research that we have lately been carrying out into the life of R C Sherriff.
In all study guides, this includes a new and much more detailed biography of R C Sherriff, which offers information on Sherriff's war and background details on the writing of the play. The A-Level version of our guide also offers a new chapter entitled "Contemporary Reviews" in which we have provided detailed quotations from newspapers and radio features at the time that Journey's End was first performed.
All of these updates are available on the GWLSRC to new and existing subscribers as well as in our downloadable e-books.
We are pleased to annouce that, today sees the launch our new online Great War Literature Magazine, which takes the form of articles and features on First World War literature, history, people, the home front, reviews, and much more. To visit the new site, please click here.
Already available on the site are interviews with the cast of a production of Journey's End; details of a visit to Mells, the resting place of Siegfried Sassoon; historical articles relating to events in 1914; downloadable posters of literary connections; feature poems and poetry articles, and recipes and household tips from the home front.
We will be adding to this site on a daily basis, updating articles and incorporating new features - so be sure to check back regularly. You can also follow us on twitter at: http://twitter.com/#!/gwlpublishing
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