1. Which image most accurately conveys your idea of Victorian womanhood?
Victorian women
Which image most accurately conveys your idea of Victorian womanhood?
Be ready to explain why.
Students chose image and explain reasons – paired activity, and class discussion (elicit ideas about fallen women, objectification of women in art, women lobbying for rights)

2. LO: What was the status of Victorian women?
“Some of the preconceptions students bring to their study of Rossetti as a Victorian woman will be coloured by the kinds of received stereotypes than can only be dispelled by carefully focussed research.” OCR
What do you think the exam board is getting at here?
Exam board quote challenges students to dig deeper than usual stereotypes… quote comes from the Rossetti delivery guide
We are not amused…
#grumpyoldqueen

3. Victorian women – context workshop
In groups, consider your given context. Make notes in your grid. How could your findings be significant for your study of Rossetti’s poems and A Doll’s House?

4. Context groups
Accession of Queen Victoria: Student, Student, Student, Student, Student
Florence Nightingale: Student, Student, Student, Student, Student
Married Women’s Property Act (1856):Student, Student, Student, Student, Student
Society for the Employment of Women (est 1860):Student, Student, Student, Student, Student
Women writers:Student, Student, Student, Student, Student
Students consider context in groups (L1 resource) , then rainbow out into new colour groups to share ideas from other groups – should end up with completed grids.

5. Context grids Key facts Possible significance for texts?
Queen Victoria
Florence Nightingale
Married Women’s Property Act
Society for the Employment of Women
Women writers

6. Plenary
Which image would you choose now to express Victorian womanhood?
LO: What was the status of Victorian women?

7. Plenary Plus
Might be interesting to discuss – as we’ll be doing The Handmaid’s Tale next…

8. The psyche of Rossetti
Starter – if these individuals were writing in the Victorian era, what would they be writing about?
What might their view be?
Engage with poetry lines
H/L – research different aspects of the context
Cluster poems with context
Canonical comparison?

9. = Complexities of Rossetti
Rossetti Climate
= Complexities of Rossetti
Structure of SoL and Lessons needs to unpick this.
Era
Family
Perspectives
Pressures
Religion
Society
Rebellion

10. Lesson 1
Victorian Women + Society
Lesson 2
Complexities for Rossetti
Big Questions which pin them together
Layering of character through the poems