GCSE Pigeon English Revision Workbook is a five-mission activity book for Stephen Kelman’s modern-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 nothing is reproduced: pupils learn to discuss it in their own words. Students follow the plot — eleven-year-old Harrison “Harri” Opoku’s move from Ghana to a rough London estate, the fatal stabbing of a local boy, Harri and Dean’s amateur detective work, the pull of the local gangs, and the tragic ending — and get to know Harri, his family, his friend Dean and the pigeon that acts as a guardian and second narrator. They explore the themes of childhood innocence and its loss, immigration and belonging, gangs and knife crime, family, faith and poverty, and the real-world context, including the way Kelman was partly inspired by the death of Damilola Taylor, all handled factually and with care. Plot, character, theme and context questions are auto-marked on screen, while open 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.

GCSE Animal Farm Revision Workbook is a five-mission activity book for Orwell’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). Students follow the plot — the animals’ rebellion that drives out the drunken farmer Mr Jones, the founding of Animalism, the power struggle in which Napoleon uses fierce dogs to drive out Snowball while Squealer spreads propaganda, the exploitation of the loyal carthorse Boxer, and the corruption that leaves the pigs walking on two legs and indistinguishable from humans — and get to know Napoleon, Snowball, Squealer, Boxer, old Major and Mr Jones. Three short, certain public-domain quotations are printed as focal blocks (“All animals are equal”, “Four legs good, two legs bad” and “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”) so pupils can practise close reading of methods such as slogans, repetition and irony and connect them to the themes of power and corruption, propaganda and inequality, all in the context of the book as an allegory of the Russian Revolution and a satire of totalitarianism. Plot, character, theme and quotation questions are auto-marked on screen, while open quotation-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.

GCSE Silas Marner Revision Workbook is a five-mission activity book for George Eliot’s 19th-century novel, 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). Students follow the plot — the lonely weaver Silas, wrongly accused of theft, settling in Raveloe and hoarding his gold; the theft of that gold by the squire’s dissolute son Dunstan Cass; the arrival of the orphan child Eppie, whose golden hair replaces the lost gold; and Eppie’s choice to stay with Silas rather than her secret real father, Godfrey Cass — and get to know Silas Marner, Eppie, Dunstan and Godfrey and the villagers of Raveloe. Short, certain public-domain focal blocks describe the key moments so pupils can practise close reading of methods such as the symbolism of the gold and contrast, and connect them to the themes of love versus money, isolation versus community and belonging, redemption and class, all in the novel’s Victorian rural context. Plot, character, theme and context questions are auto-marked on screen, while open focal-block 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.

GCSE Lord of the Flies Revision Workbook is a five-mission activity book for William Golding’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 1954 novel is still in copyright, no line of the text is reproduced; students learn the facts and ideas analytically, in their own words. They follow the plot — British schoolboys stranded on a deserted island with no adults, Ralph elected leader and using the conch to keep order, Jack’s hunters breaking away into savagery, the fear of the imaginary beast, the deaths of Simon and Piggy, and the sudden rescue by a naval officer — and get to know Ralph, Piggy, Jack, Simon and Roger and what each represents. Key symbols (the conch, the signal fire, the beast and the pig’s head named the “Lord of the Flies”) are used to teach close analysis and to connect the themes of civilisation versus savagery, the evil in human nature, loss of innocence, power and fear to the novel’s post-war context. Plot, character, theme and context questions are auto-marked on screen, while open symbol-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.

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.

GCSE Jekyll and Hyde Revision Workbook is a five-mission activity book for the nineteenth-century prose set text The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, 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). Students follow the mystery — the respectable Dr Jekyll and his violent alter ego Mr Hyde in foggy Victorian London, the lawyer Utterson’s investigation, Hyde’s trampling of a young girl and his murder of the MP Sir Danvers Carew, and Jekyll’s loss of control that ends in his written confession and death — and get to know Jekyll, Hyde, Utterson, Dr Lanyon and the butler Poole. Short, certain public-domain quotations are printed as focal blocks (“Man is not truly one, but truly two”, “If he be Mr Hyde, I shall be Mr Seek” and Hyde’s “impression of deformity”) so pupils can practise close reading of methods such as foreshadowing and pathetic fallacy and connect them to the themes of duality, reputation and repression, all in the Victorian context of respectability and hypocrisy. Plot, character, theme and method questions are auto-marked on screen, while open quotation-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.

GCSE Frankenstein Revision Workbook is a five-mission activity book for Mary Shelley’s 19th-century 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). Students follow the plot — the frame narrative of Captain Robert Walton’s Arctic letters, Victor Frankenstein’s creation of the Creature at Ingolstadt, the Creature’s rejection for its appearance and its revenge on William, Clerval and Elizabeth, and the final pursuit across the ice — and get to know Victor, the Creature, Walton, Clerval and Elizabeth. Two short, certain public-domain quotations are printed as focal blocks (the subtitle “The Modern Prometheus” and the Creature’s “I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel”) so pupils can practise close reading of methods such as allusion, the frame narrative and the sublime and connect them to the themes of ambition, responsibility and prejudice, all in the Gothic and Romantic context of Shelley’s time. Plot, character, theme and method questions are auto-marked on screen, while open quotation-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.

GCSE Great Expectations Revision Workbook is a five-mission activity book for the Dickens 19th-century 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). Students follow the plot — the orphan Pip’s childhood on the Kent marshes, his terrifying meeting with the convict Magwitch, his visits to Miss Havisham’s decaying Satis House and hopeless love for the cold Estella, his “great expectations” and move to London to become a gentleman, and the revelation that his secret benefactor is Magwitch, not Miss Havisham — and get to know Pip, Joe Gargery, Mrs Joe, Miss Havisham, Estella and Magwitch. Short, certain public-domain quotations are printed as focal blocks so pupils can practise close reading of methods such as symbolism and first-person narration and connect them to the themes of social class, ambition, wealth versus worth, guilt and love, all in the Victorian context of class and the idea of the “gentleman”. Plot, character, theme and context questions are auto-marked on screen, while open quotation-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.

GCSE Jane Eyre Revision Workbook is a five-mission activity book for Charlotte Brontë’s nineteenth-century novel, 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). Students follow the plot — Jane’s journey from Gateshead and the cruel Mrs Reed, to the harsh Lowood school run by Mr Brocklehurst where her friend Helen Burns dies, on to Thornfield where she becomes governess to Mr Rochester, the wedding stopped by the revelation of his hidden wife Bertha Mason locked in the attic, Jane’s flight, the fire that destroys Thornfield, and her return to marry Rochester as an equal — and get to know Jane, Rochester, Mrs Reed, Brocklehurst, Helen Burns, Bertha Mason and St John Rivers. Two short, certain public-domain quotations are printed as focal blocks (“I am no bird… a free human being with an independent will” and “Reader, I married him”) so pupils can practise close reading of the first-person voice and Gothic method and connect them to the themes of independence, conscience, class and love, all in the Victorian context of rigid class and limited roles for women. Plot, character, theme and quotation questions are auto-marked on screen, while open quotation-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.

GCSE The Sign of Four Revision Workbook is a five-mission activity book for the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle prose set text, board-neutral 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). Students follow the detective plot — Mary Morstan hiring Sherlock Holmes, the mystery of the vanished father and the yearly pearls, the Agra treasure looted in India, the broken pact of the “sign of four”, the villain Jonathan Small and his companion Tonga, and Watson’s engagement to Mary — and get to know Holmes, Dr John Watson, Mary Morstan, the Sholto brothers and Small. Two short, certain public-domain quotations are printed as focal blocks (“You know my methods. Apply them.” and “When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”) so pupils can practise close reading of method — observation, logical deduction and first-person narration — and connect it to the themes of reason, justice and greed, all in the Victorian context of the British Empire and colonialism. Plot, character, theme and quotation questions are auto-marked on screen, while open quotation-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.