{"id":1494,"date":"2020-01-15T21:21:51","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T21:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/clic-dickens\/?p=1494"},"modified":"2020-01-15T21:27:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T21:27:40","slug":"free-teaching-materials-looking-for-feedback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/clic-dickens\/2020\/01\/15\/free-teaching-materials-looking-for-feedback\/","title":{"rendered":"Free teaching materials &#8211; looking for feedback!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>These days, if you&#8217;re a teacher, you&#8217;re likely used to time pressure when preparing your classes. As part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/birmingham.ac.uk\/clic\">CLiC project<\/a> we have been working on a number of free resources for you, hoping they will save you some time. In this post we ask for your feedback to ensure the resources we create are as valuable for your work as possible<\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1509\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1509\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/clic-dickens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2020\/01\/33990895508_7baf526d43_k.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1509\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/clic-dickens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2020\/01\/33990895508_7baf526d43_k-1024x653.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/clic-dickens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2020\/01\/33990895508_7baf526d43_k-1024x653.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/clic-dickens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2020\/01\/33990895508_7baf526d43_k-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/clic-dickens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2020\/01\/33990895508_7baf526d43_k-768x490.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/clic-dickens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2020\/01\/33990895508_7baf526d43_k-1536x980.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/clic-dickens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2020\/01\/33990895508_7baf526d43_k.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1509\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A student from the University of Birmingham school working with a handout at a workshop run by the CLiC team (photo by Victoria Beddoes)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Our classroom activities focus on teaching the 19th-century novel at Key Stage 3 onwards. They\u00a0make use of the <a href=\"http:\/\/clic.bham.ac.uk\">CLiC web app<\/a> &#8211; a free tool that we developed. CLiC doesn&#8217;t require any registration\/login and lets you and your students search and analyse the language of 19th century fiction.<\/p>\n<p>You can \u00a0download the following free resources for stand-alone classroom activities in PDF and Word format:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Character and structure in <em>A Christmas Carol<\/em>&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/clic-dickens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2020\/01\/CLiC_Christmas_Carol_activity.pdf\">PDF: 311 KB<\/a>) ( <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/clic-dickens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2020\/01\/CLiC_Christmas_Carol_activity.docx\">.docx: 3 MB<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Exploring theme in<em> The Sign of the Four (<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/clic-dickens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2020\/01\/CLiC_Sign_of_the_Four_activity.pdf\">PDF: 444 KB<\/a>) (<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/clic-dickens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2020\/01\/CLiC_Sign_of_the_Four_activity.docx\">.docx: 3 MB<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Education, women and governesses in the 19<span class=\"s2\">th <\/span>century&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/clic-dickens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2020\/01\/CLiC_governess_activity.pdf\">PDF: 498 KB<\/a>) (\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/clic-dickens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2020\/01\/CLiC_governess_activity.docx\">.docx: 3.8 MB<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can also find these and activities bundled in our <a href=\"http:\/\/birmingham.ac.uk\/clic-activity-book\">free Activity Book<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you think about these activities? What are your views on the format of the activities? Do you have specific requests for more material? Please let us know in the comments, via <a href=\"mailto:clic@contacts.bham.ac.uk\">email<\/a> or via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CLiC_fiction\">Twitter<\/a> how we can improve our resources and make them work for you!<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Teaching resource survey in preparation for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/researched-birmingham-2020-redbrum-tickets-66337145187\">researchED Birmingham 2020<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Another way in which you can help us provide valuable training and resources is to participate in our survey in preparation for our session at researchED Birmingham 2020:<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/birminghamcoaal.eu.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_3pJbF2gaKpQazgF\"> take part in the short anonymous survey here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thank you for helping us improve our work on 19th-century novel teaching resources!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These days, if you&#8217;re a teacher, you&#8217;re likely used to time pressure when preparing your classes. As part of the CLiC project we have been working on a number of free resources for you, hoping they will save you some time. 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