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Welcome to thedimofdawn.com, a comprehensive resource for IGCSE students studying the poems of Thomas Hardy. Over the next week you will find an increasing number of resources on this site, including...
View ArticleHardy the Novelist
If you want some great background about Thomas Hardy as a novelist, check out the Great Writers Inspire Thomas Hardy page here.
View ArticleCreative Commons Resources
We’ve decided to apply a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) license to our site. What does this mean? It means that you can take our material and use it to create other educational materials, so long...
View ArticleExam Preparation
Worried about Friday’s exam? Since Hardy is relatively new to the syllabus, there aren’t a lot of past papers to practice. If you want to create your own potential questions, try this formula: How does...
View Article2014 in review
Coming up in 2015… Analysis for missing poems More review materials Additional essays on current poems The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an...
View ArticleOther Helpful Sites
Looking for more resources on the poetry of Thomas Hardy? Check out the BBC Bitesize pages on Drummer Hodge or the Hardy Society’s commentary on poems for students. For those inquiring about the...
View ArticleThis Website
As the exam is right around the corner, some information about this site (and what it does and does not do) may be useful. Dimofdawn.com was made by a group of Fifth Form students in 2015. We thought...
View ArticleRevision Advice
With the last GCSE exam covering Hardy’s poems approaching on Monday morning, here is some advice for last-minute revision. Annotate blank copies. Try to see what you can remember about the poems...
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