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 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 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 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.
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.
