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 An Inspector Calls Revision Workbook is a five-mission activity book for Priestley’s modern set play, 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 play is still in copyright, it is taught analytically and no dialogue is reproduced: every focal box is a key fact or paraphrase in Learnaroo’s own words. Students follow the plot — the Birling family’s celebration of Sheila’s engagement to Gerald Croft, the arrival of the mysterious Inspector Goole, the revelation that each of them played a part in the downfall and death of the working-class woman Eva Smith (also known as Daisy Renton), and the twist that a real inspector is still on his way — and get to know Arthur and Sybil Birling, Sheila, Eric, Gerald and the Inspector. Pupils practise close analysis of Priestley’s methods, such as the dramatic irony of Mr Birling’s claims about the war and the Titanic, and connect them to the themes of social responsibility, class, gender and the divide between the older and younger generations, all in the context of a play set in 1912 but written for a 1945 audience. Plot, character, theme and context questions are auto-marked on screen, while open character-analysis and essay-planning tasks build the extended writing examiners reward and keep pupils writing in their 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 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 Blood Brothers Revision Workbook is a five-mission activity book for Willy Russell’s modern drama set text, 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 play is in copyright, it is taught analytically and no lines or lyrics are reproduced — every focal block states a key fact or paraphrases an idea in Learnaroo’s own words. Students follow the plot — the working-class Mrs Johnstone gives one of her twins to her wealthy employer Mrs Lyons, the boys Mickey and Eddie grow up apart in Liverpool, meet by chance and become blood brothers, are pulled apart by class as Eddie prospers and Mickey ends up in prison, and both die at the end — and get to know Mrs Johnstone, Mrs Lyons, Mickey, Eddie, the Narrator, Linda and Sammy. Pupils practise close analysis of methods such as dramatic irony, the Narrator and symbolism and connect them to the themes of social class, fate and superstition, and nature versus nurture, all in the play’s early-1980s Liverpool context. 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.
GCSE DNA Revision Workbook is a five-mission activity book for Dennis Kelly’s modern drama set text, board-neutral and suitable for the WJEC/Eduqas drama option, 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 play is in copyright, it is taught analytically and no lines are reproduced: pupils describe the drama in their own words. Students follow the plot — a group of teenagers bully a boy called Adam, a prank goes wrong and they believe he is dead, the cold and logical Phil devises a cover-up, and the group frames an innocent postman by planting DNA evidence — and get to know Phil (the silent strategist, often eating sweets), Leah (talkative and anxious), Cathy (increasingly ruthless) and Adam, who is later found alive but then killed for real. Focal blocks are key facts and paraphrase in plain English so pupils can practise close analysis of peer pressure and group mentality, morality and guilt, power and leadership, and the individual versus the group. Plot, character, theme and context questions are auto-marked on screen, while open character-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 Taste of Honey Revision Workbook is a five-mission activity book for Shelagh Delaney’s modern drama 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). Because the play is in copyright it is taught analytically and no line is reproduced: every focal fact is paraphrased in our own words. Students place the play in its 1950s Salford setting and its “kitchen-sink” realist style; get to know Jo, her unreliable mother Helen, Helen’s younger husband Peter, Jo’s sailor boyfriend and the caring gay art student Geof; and follow the story as Jo is left pregnant and Geof looks after her. They explore the play’s themes — social class and poverty, the mother–daughter relationship and neglect, gender and the limited choices open to women, race, sexuality and loneliness — and understand why it was groundbreaking for showing race, single motherhood and homosexuality sympathetically in the 1950s. Race and sexuality are handled factually and respectfully throughout. Context, character, plot and theme 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 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.
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.
