Resources for Schools – English GCSE & AS Level

The learning resources below are provided for teachers and students studying for GCSE and AS. They are high-quality resources to help you advance your understanding of the set texts at these levels. We hope to add more resources to the site in the coming year.

The resources are free for all personal use by students and also for teachers to photocopy for classroom use. They remain, however, copyright of The University of Buckingham and must not be taken for commercial purposes.

Any comments, queries, or errors may be sent in the first instance to stefan.hawlin@buckingham.ac.uk.

Click on the links below for glossaries, commentaries and teaching suggestions for the set poems.

• On my first Sonne
• The Song of the Old Mother
• The Affliction of Margaret
• The Little Boy Lost and The Little Boy Found
• Tichborne’s Elegy
• The Man He Killed
• Patrolling Barnegat
• Sonnet 130
• My Last Duchess
• The Laboratory
• Ulysses
• The Village Schoolmaster
• The Eagle
• Inversnaid
• Sonnet