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.
GCSE Pride and Prejudice Revision Workbook is a five-mission activity book for the Jane Austen 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 Bennet family at Longbourn, the clash of first impressions between witty Elizabeth Bennet and proud Mr Darcy of Pemberley, Jane and Mr Bingley, the lies of Mr Wickham, Lydia’s elopement, Mr Collins’s rejected proposal, and the marriages that finally overcome pride and prejudice — and get to know Elizabeth, Darcy, Jane, Bingley, Wickham, Lydia, Mr Collins, Lady Catherine de Bourgh and Mr and Mrs Bennet. Short, certain public-domain quotations are printed as focal blocks (the ironic opening line “It is a truth universally acknowledged…”, Darcy’s “not handsome enough to tempt me”, and Lady Catherine’s scorn at Lydia’s “infamous elopement”) so pupils can practise close reading of Austen’s irony and connect it to the themes of marriage and money, social class and reputation, and women’s limited choices, all in the Regency context. 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 The Merchant of Venice 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 — Antonio the Venetian merchant borrowing from the Jewish moneylender Shylock so his friend Bassanio can woo the heiress Portia, the bond of a pound of flesh, the casket test at Belmont where Bassanio chooses lead, the loss of Antonio’s ships, and the trial where Portia, disguised as a lawyer, defeats Shylock over a single drop of blood — and get to know Antonio, Bassanio, Portia and Shylock across Venice and Belmont. Two short, certain public-domain quotations are printed as focal blocks (“The quality of mercy is not strain’d” and “If you prick us, do we not bleed?”) so pupils can practise close reading and connect method to the themes of justice versus mercy, prejudice and antisemitism, love and friendship, and appearance versus reality, all in the Elizabethan context. 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 Tempest 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 — how Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan overthrown by his brother Antonio, is cast out to a remote island where he raises a tempest with his magic to wreck his enemies’ ship, before finally forgiving them, freeing Ariel and giving up his magic — and get to know Prospero, Miranda, Antonio, the airy spirit Ariel, the island’s native Caliban and Ferdinand, the prince who loves Miranda. Three short, certain public-domain quotations are printed as focal blocks (“We are such stuff / As dreams are made on”, “You taught me language… I know how to curse” and “O brave new world”) so pupils can practise close reading of methods and connect them to the themes of power and control, magic and illusion, freedom versus servitude, colonialism and forgiveness. 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.