GCSE Anita and Me Revision Workbook

GCSE Anita and Me Revision Workbook is a five-mission activity book for Meera Syal’s prose set text, board-neutral across AQA, Edexcel, OCR and WJEC/Eduqas and mapped to the DfE subject content and the Assessment Objectives (AO1 informed personal response with references, AO2 analysis of language, form and structure, AO3 context). Because the novel is in copyright, it is taught analytically and paraphrased throughout — no lines are reproduced. Students follow the story — Meena Kumar, a British-Indian girl, growing up in the fictional former mining village of Tollington in the early 1970s, idolising and then outgrowing the older girl Anita Rutter, and reconnecting with her Indian heritage through her grandmother, Nanima — and get to know the key characters and the semi-autobiographical, coming-of-age (bildungsroman) form. Focal blocks present key facts and paraphrased ideas so pupils can practise close analysis of methods such as first-person narration and contrast and connect them to the themes of identity and belonging, race and racism, family and community, and friendship. Race and racism are handled factually and sensitively, as something the novel presents as hurtful and wrong, with no slurs. Plot, character, theme and context questions are auto-marked on screen, while open analysis and essay-planning tasks build the extended writing examiners reward, always in pupils’ own words. The whole book can be printed with a full answer key. Includes teacher, parent and student notes and is fully SEND-friendly with high-contrast and large-text modes.