Year+of+Wonders

== media type="custom" key="9787768" align="right" Use the questions on the webquest sheet to guide your research into the historical and social context of the novel. The following websites and study guides have been provided to help you search efficiently. For each answer you give, provide a minimum of two to three sources for your answer - you need to write a response in your own words and verify your answer by using multiple sources of information. =Contextualising the novel=

The Plague
[] [] http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/middle_ages/black_01.shtml []
 * The following websites and the ppt presentation to the right are on the 'Black Death', an earlier outbreak. They are still useful to understand the nature and symptoms of the disease:**

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Plague_of_London http://www.britainexpress.com/History/plague.htm http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/contagion/plague.html http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/lesson49.htm []
 * These websites focus specifically on the great plague of 1665, the outbreak that forms the basis of //Year of Wonders//**:

http://www.britainexpress.com/History/great_fire.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_London
 * The great fire of London:**

Plague in the village of Eyam
http://www.beautifulbritain.co.uk/htm/outandabout/eyam.htm http://www.eyamplaguevillage.co.uk/



=Study Guides and Resources=

[|Discussion on 'Enough Rope' with Geraldine Brooks:] [|Review of the novel] 'Annus Mirabilis' by John Dryden: [|ebook complete text] [|audio files of the poem]

=Reading and Responding Activities=