Operational Objectives
By the end of the lesson, learners will be able to:
Identify and recall key biographical and historical contexts surrounding Gerard Manley Hopkins and H.G. Wells, and connect them to the rise of literary modernism.
Demonstrate an understanding of how God’s Grandeur critiques industrialisation and conveys a spiritual response to ecological damage.
Explain how The Time Machine functions as speculative fiction that critiques capitalist systems and envisions the human consequences of unchecked technological progress.
Analyse the formal innovations in Hopkins’s use of sprung rhythm and Wells’s narrative framing device, examining how each enhances thematic complexity.
Evaluate the relevance of Hopkins’s spiritual environmentalism and Wells’s dystopian vision in relation to current global issues such as climate change, AI, and social inequality.
Compose a critical or creative response that synthesises literary experimentation with social critique, imagining future or alternative realities influenced by present-day ethical dilemmas.