There’s a Certain Slant of Light by Emily Dickinson Student Worksheet and PowerPoint

A Level and GCSE resources for 1 hour and 30 minutes of teaching on ‘There’s a Certain Slant of Light’ by Emily Dickinson. Suggestions for further activities or additional activities are also included.

The pack includes:
• A two page student worksheet with a selection of activities and questions.
• A 25 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 ‘There’s a Certain Slant of Light’. Students can be set the work independently or the work can be presented in a more collaborative class atmosphere.

The text of this poem is available at Project Gutenberg. 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.

Emily Dickinson poems also available:
This World is not Conclusion
He fumbles at your Soul
I like to see it lap the Miles
Going to Heaven!

Also available the Emily Dickinson Poetry Bundle which includes: ‘There’s a certain Slant of light’, ‘This World is not Conclusion’, ‘He fumbles at your Soul’, ‘I like to see it lap the Miles’ and ‘Going to Heaven!’