British Literature Activities, Bell Ringers, and Projects Bundle

Breathe life into your British Literature classes with the following fresh, new ideas! This resource includes bundled bellringers, creative activities, and a British literary movements project.

Provide your students with meaningful opportunities to connect to British Literature authors, themes, and literary periods. This teaching bundle fosters text-to-text, text-to-world, and text-to-self connections with modern day teens!

The British Lit Teaching Resource Bundle includes two resources that are also sold separately. Buying this bundle will provide you with over a 15% savings versus the cost of purchasing each separately!

Resource One: British Literature Bell Ringers & Brit Lit Activities - Designed for Teens!

This resource includes 30+ British Literature bell ringers, extended response activities, and hig-interest assignments for secondary British Literature.

Your students will be engaged with the attractive resource design, interesting writing prompts, and the multiple activities utilizing popular media, such as popular songs and video clips!

Google Drive, GAFE, and G Suite teachers are provided with resource share links. All resources are formatted to be easily used in Google Classroom!

Teachers using Microsoft Office and OneDrive can also use this resource. All materials are included as pdfs for printing as well!

British Literature Bell Ringers and Extended Response Activities include the following:

• 30+ attractive Google Slides with Bell Ringer Prompts, Extended Response Activities, Visuals, Embedded Videos, and Resource Links;
• Teacher’s copy of Google Slides Bell Ringers with detailed notes for each activity;
• Answer Keys for all handouts and extended response sheets;
• 24+ writing prompts based on quotes by popular British Literature authors;
• Over 12 student handouts and Google Drive templates;
• 5 relevant embedded video clips;
• Related informational text article links;
• Modern song connections, embedded relevant, engaging video segments, social media templates, and more!

Sample activities include:

• Foo Fighter’s My Hero song annotation with questions;
• Hip Hop Shakespeare, Ted Talks Video, Shakespeare Google Slide Interactive Quiz;
• What’s Love Got to Do With It? “To His Coy Mistress” and Sara Bareilles “Love Song;”
• RenaissanceMen4U Dating Profile;
• Frankenstein: Can You Hear Me Now (Sound Effects/Audio Files Activity);
• Victorian Era: Life’s No Fairy Tale! - Parody Video Clips

This resource includes extended response activities centering on the following British Literature literary themes and concepts:

Heroism and Courage

Good vs. Evil

Passage of Time and Mortality

Love: Triumphs and Tragedies

Fate and Destiny

Humanism and Injustice

Teaching notes are included along with suggestions on how to implement the activities via British Literature timelines and literary movements.

Thematic and conceptual alignment notes for this resource are also in the teacher’s guide, along with suggestions for supplementary or related British and English literature, short stories and novels!

Resource Two: British Literature Literary Periods and Movements Digital Poster Project

Enhance your instruction and add an additional activity, review, or assessment with this creative, high-interest British Literature project!

Students will create dynamic digital posters illustrating British literary periods with images, texts, and graphics representative of that specific literary movement.

There are two different project options for differentiation and to provide flexibility as to when you should implement this activity.

In the first project option, students will create two digital posters for the same British Literature literary period. This project option can be implemented as you are covering literature for that specific time frame or use this as a way to assess students once you have completed a literary movement.

The second option allows students to choose five literary movements and design a poster representative of each. This project would provide a great mid-year review or can be used as an end of the year British Literature assessment.

Materials, such as the grading rubric and student project handout, are provided for both of these options. Teachers choose the one they want to use!

This high-interest technology project uses the free, user-friendly site, Adobe Spark! You can create the dynamic digital posters with ANY device (including iPads)!

This resource includes ELEVEN project examples created using Adobe Spark for each British Literature Literary Period!

Students can view examples for the following literary movements:

Anglo-Saxon, Medieval, Renaissance, Neoclassical, Romanticism, Victorian, Modernism, Postmodernism and Contemporary

The British Literary Movement posters will serve as a project model while sparking your students’ imaginations and motivating them to create and design their own!

What is a British Literature Literary Period Poster?

British Literary Period Posters display the unique characteristics of the literary works and writing that occurred during a specific historical time frame or during a unique British literary and/or social movement.

Students will select from the following options to feature on their digital posters:

• The Name of the Literary Period or Movement
• Defining Characteristics of the Writing
• Popular Types of Writing
• The Writer’s Purpose or the Reader’s Impact
• External Influences Impacting Writing Styles and Content (a proceeding literary movement, historical events that were occurring or had already happened, beliefs/mindset of society, etc.)
• Examples of Stories, Authors, Themes, Common Symbols, etc

This project includes a Final Handout where students list the content in their posters and must explain the relevance (ensuring they are held accountable for their poster choices).

This teaching resource includes the following:

• A pdf teacher’s guide with Google Drive links to all student and teacher resources;
• Student Literary Movements Poster Project Sheet with clear directions and suggestions for poster content – including poster requirements and additional ideas – for both activity options;
• Directions for signing up for an account at Adobe Express (formerly Spark), a How-To Create a Poster Guide, and a link to a YouTube video on creating posters using Adobe Express’s website;
• Links to 11 total British Literary Movement Posters to Serve as a Project Models;
• A Final Student Project Handout with questions requiring students to explain their poster content and how it relates to the literary movement itself;
• A Sample Final Project Handout with examples of sufficient responses and explanations;
• An editable British Literature Literary Movements Grading Rubric (for both options).

Students can share their project’s URL on their final project handouts or create letter-sized posters for printing!

This will provide a beautiful background for a class word wall!

Foster your students’ ability to think critically and creatively and to showcase their knowledge of British lit literary periods with this high-interest project!

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Interested in additional high-interest British Literature Resources?

You may want to also check out the following:

British Literature: Medieval Lit, Sir Gawain & the Green Knight WordArt Activity

Macbeth Introduction: Macbeth Unit Research Project - William Shakespeare

Shakespeare and Elizabethan Era Research Thinglink Project: Shakespeare ALIVE!

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