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 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 Othello Revision Workbook is a five-mission activity book for the Shakespeare 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 — Othello, a respected Moorish general in Venice, secretly marries Desdemona; his ensign Iago, bitter that Cassio is promoted over him, seeks revenge and manipulates Othello with a handkerchief as false “proof” of an affair; consumed by jealousy Othello kills Desdemona, and after Emilia exposes Iago’s lies he takes his own life — and get to know Othello, Desdemona, Iago, Cassio, Emilia, Roderigo and Brabantio. Three short, certain public-domain quotations are printed as focal blocks (“Put out the light, and then put out the light”, “I am not what I am” and “It is the green-eyed monster”) so pupils can practise close reading of methods such as metaphor and dramatic irony and connect them to the themes of jealousy, deception and prejudice. The theme of race is handled factually and sensitively: Othello is a respected outsider who faces prejudice. 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 A Midsummer Night’s Dream Workbook is a five-mission activity book for the Shakespeare 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 four Athenian lovers (Hermia and Lysander, Helena and Demetrius) fleeing into the enchanted wood near Athens, the quarrel between the fairy king Oberon and queen Titania, Puck’s magic love-flower muddling the lovers, the weaver Bottom transformed with an ass’s head, the mechanicals’ play “Pyramus and Thisbe”, and the triple wedding that ends the comedy — and get to know Theseus, the four lovers, the fairies and Bottom. Three short, certain public-domain quotations are printed as focal blocks (“The course of true love never did run smooth”, “Lord, what fools these mortals be!” and “Though she be but little, she is fierce”) so pupils can practise close reading and connect methods to the themes of love, magic, dreams and appearance versus reality, all in the play’s contrast between ordered Athens and the chaotic wood. 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 Julius Caesar Revision Workbook is a five-mission activity book for the Shakespeare 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 — Caesar’s triumphant return to Rome, the Soothsayer’s warning to beware the Ides of March, the conspiracy in which Cassius persuades the honourable Brutus to join the plot, the assassination and Caesar’s dying words to Brutus, Mark Antony’s funeral speech that turns the Roman mob against the conspirators, and the civil war that ends with defeat at Philippi — and get to know Caesar, Brutus, Cassius, Antony, Casca and the Soothsayer. Three short, certain public-domain quotations are printed as focal blocks (“Beware the Ides of March”, “Et tu, Brute?” and “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears”) so pupils can practise close reading of methods such as rhetoric and dramatic irony and connect them to the themes of power, honour and persuasion, all in the ancient Roman context of a republic that feared kings. 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 Much Ado About Nothing Workbook is a five-mission activity book for the Shakespeare 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 two couples of Messina, the “merry war” of wit between Beatrice and Benedick and the match-making trick that unites them, the villain Don John’s plot to slander Hero, the shaming at the altar and Hero’s pretended death, and the way the bumbling constable Dogberry and his Watch expose the lie so the play ends in a double marriage — and get to know Beatrice, Benedick, Claudio, Hero, the prince Don Pedro, Don John and Dogberry. Three short, certain public-domain quotations are printed as focal blocks (“I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me”, “I do love nothing in the world so well as you” and “Kill Claudio”) so pupils can practise close reading of methods such as the pun on “nothing”/“noting” and connect them to the themes of love, deception and reputation, all in the Elizabethan context of honour and a woman’s good name. 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 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.