GCSE The History Boys Revision Workbook

GCSE The History Boys Revision Workbook is a five-mission activity book for Alan Bennett’s modern drama 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). The play is in copyright, so it is taught analytically with no verbatim quotation, and its adult themes are handled maturely and without explicit content. Students learn the set-up — clever sixth-form boys at a northern grammar school in the 1980s being prepared for Oxford and Cambridge (Oxbridge) entrance — and get to know the three contrasting teachers Hector (who loves learning for its own sake, though his conduct with pupils is a problem), Irwin (the young, cynical, exam-focused coach) and Mrs Lintott (the sensible history teacher who notes that women are overlooked by history), plus pupils such as the confident Dakin and the sensitive Posner. Focal blocks present key facts and paraphrased ideas in plain language so pupils can weigh the play’s big themes — the purpose and value of education, knowledge and history, class and social mobility, sexuality and growing up. Plot, character, theme and context questions are auto-marked on screen, while open close-analysis and essay-planning tasks build the extended writing examiners reward. 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.