Reading+and+responding

Unit 3 : **Year of Wonders by** Geraldine Brooks

For some background reading try looking at these sites:

[|The Great Plague]

[|The Great Fire of London]

[|St Paul's Cathedral]

[|Timeline of British Medieval History]

[|Battle of Marston-Moor]

[|Battle of Naseby]

[|The Early Stuarts and the Civil War]

=**Ways into the text:**= 1. What is a pandemic? Research the Bird Flu, Swine Flu, or AIDS. How was the disease transmitted? Symptoms? Treatments? Community reaction?

2. What is the meaning of 'wonder'?

3. Anna Frith is a heroine. Define heroism. What makes someone a hero? Who are your heroes and why?

4. What are fears and phobias? Are there logical reasons for the development of phobias, fears? How are these things confronted or are they never overcome?

5.How does a society react when they are fearful/ afraid? Consider reactions to September 11th 2001? Bali bombings? Terror attacks in Madrid? London?

6. Examine the the poem by John Dryden //Anna Miabilis// - front of 'Year of Wonders'. In what ways does this piece set the scene for the novel?

=**Chapter studies**=