Resources

http://www.dickenslive.com/ This website has an extensive biography of the life of Charles Dickens. This can help you develop a timeline of key events for your presentations of this author. The site also offers a directory of photographs detailing Dicken's life. Photographs and other forms of multimedia are highly recommended for your presentations.

http://www.dickensmuseum.com/ This website offers virtual tours of key establishments important to the development of Charles Dicken's life recreated in this museum. Though the museum is based in England, the virtual tours allow you a peek inside the life of Dickens without traveling overseas. A virtual field trip is one way to add a strong element of creativity to your presentation.

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/index.html For your presentations, it will be essential to develop your thoughts and the facts you present about Dickens in relationship to the time period. This website gives a plethora of information concerning the victorian age literary movement, of which Dickens was a part. Explore how not only literature, but other arts, sciences and socio-cultural movements changed during this time. Understanding how and why the economy, politics, gender matters, and religion changed during this time will give you a better comprehension of why Dickens wrote about certain societal issues.

http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/d Your presentations will require you to pull evidence from the text. Search "Dicken"s using the Gutenberg Project search engine to find online versions of most of Dickens literary works. Be sure to cite the novels. "A Tale of Two Cities", "Great Expectations", "Hard Times", and "David Copperfield" are some of Dickens most renowned works; be sure to review these using this website.

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