The potpourri of activities in this Christmas unit were developed for junior enrichment students and grades 7 and 8 students. Several of the activities could be altered for use with the primary grades. These activities would fit very nicely into a partners in action programme, where resource-based learning is used.

Features images of Victorian Christmas cards and period poems.

This sheet music book is perfect if you enjoy a Victorian themed holiday season brimming with elegance and gentility. Wonderful old holiday songs include "Christmas Bells," "Merry Christmas Polka," "Dear Old Christmas Story," "Santa Claus Galop," and many more written between 1853 and 1885. Sixth in a series of historic American sheet music books. 80 pages.

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What did the Victorians think of Shakespeare? The twelve essays gathered here offer some answers, through close examination of works by leading nineteenth-century novelists, poets and critics including Dickens, Trollope, Eliot, Tennyson, Browning and Ruskin. Shakespeare provided the Victorians with ways of thinking about the authority of the past, about the emergence of a new mass culture, about the relations between artistic and industrial production, about the nature of creativity, about racial and sexual difference, and about individual and national identity.