Cross-Curricular Connections

The Highwayman

“The Highwayman” is about a fatal love affair. One of her neighbors acts in jealousy and turns her over to the police because of her association with the highwayman. Click on the link below to learn about how to build healthy relationships in your own life.
http://glencoe.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0078774497/student_view0/chapter6/student_web_activities__lesson_4.html

“The Highwayman” takes place in eighteenth-century England. It is sometimes difficult to imagine the world of a poem or story that takes place so long ago. Click on the link below to see paintings by Thomas Gainsborough, an eighteenth-century English painter.
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/collection?collectionName=Works+by+Gainsborough