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Secondary / sixth form

Emma

Jane Austen

Emma’s confidence in arranging other people’s lives gives the reader repeated opportunities to test her assumptions. Distinguish what she observes from wha...

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Primary / family

ESA Primary Space Resources

European Space Agency

Space provides a starting point for practical questions about materials, Earth and observation. Use a teacher-selected resource, read the instructions befo...

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Cross-stage / teacher selected

Europeana for Educators

Europeana

European cultural collections make it possible to compare books, images and objects across places and periods. Begin with one clearly identified source rat...

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Upper primary / early secondary

Fantastic Mr Fox

Roald Dahl

A family’s struggle against three farmers becomes a sequence of plans, setbacks and shared effort. Keep track of what each side knows and compare the pleas...

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Sixth form / stretch

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley

Read the opening of Chapter 5, ending when Victor first leaves the room. Follow the movement from anticipated achievement to disgust. Compare the features...

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Secondary / sixth form

Gallica French Classics

Bibliothèque nationale de France

Digitised French literary collections make older editions available for close reading and comparison. Record which edition you consult and separate the aut...

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Upper primary / early secondary

Goodnight Mister Tom

Michelle Magorian

Evacuation brings Willie into a household where ordinary routines gradually acquire new meaning. Trace changes in trust through small actions rather than o...

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Secondary / stretch

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

Read the first paragraphs of Chapter I in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations, stopping before the stranger speaks. Pip explains his name and remembers im...

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Sixth form / stretch

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

A prince receives a demand for revenge but cannot easily separate knowledge from suspicion. Hamlet explores how people act when evidence is incomplete and...

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Secondary / sixth form

Hard Times

Charles Dickens

A town organised around facts and production tests the limits of a narrow account of human needs. Read the schoolroom beside the factory and the circus, co...

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Secondary / sixth form

Henry IV Part 1

William Shakespeare

Rebellion at court and disorder in the tavern offer Prince Hal competing models of adulthood. Read his planned transformation alongside Hotspur’s ideals an...

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Secondary / sixth form

Henry IV Part 2

William Shakespeare

Illness, rumour and the approach of succession give familiar relationships a new urgency. Follow the contrast between ageing companions and the demands of...

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Secondary / sixth form

Henry V

William Shakespeare

A king’s campaign in France is shaped through speeches, disputed claims and encounters with ordinary soldiers. Attend to the Chorus as well as the action,...

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Sixth form / stretch

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë

Read Chapter I from the bad weather to Jane reading alone behind the curtain. Stop before John enters. Compare her exclusion from the fireside family group...

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Secondary

Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare

Julius Caesar stages a struggle over political authority and the meaning given to public events. Brutus and Antony address an audience whose response chang...

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