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Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Paired titles and contrasting speakers offer a way to compare how innocence and experience frame familiar situations. Begin with one pair of poems, attend...
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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Read the description of the prosperous by-street and the neglected building in Story of the Door. Stop before Enfield recounts the incident. Compare inviti...
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Secondary / sixth form
Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Tess’s experience is shaped by economic vulnerability and unequal moral expectations. Attend to the narrator’s language, the changing rural settings and th...
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Primary / family
The Adventures of Pinocchio
A wooden puppet’s adventures connect tempting promises with unexpected consequences. This English translation contains dark and threatening episodes, so ad...
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Secondary / sixth form
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
These short cases turn overlooked details into possible explanations. Keep observation separate from deduction, and compare Watson’s account with Holmes’s...
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Sixth form / stretch
The Aeneid
A journey towards a future community repeatedly requires choices that involve present suffering. Track the language of duty alongside the experiences of th...
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Primary / family
The Book of Nonsense
Illustrated nonsense verse invites readers to enjoy patterns that lead to unlikely situations. Share a short example, compare the rhythm of its lines and i...
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Secondary / sixth form
The Comedy of Errors
Two pairs of separated twins turn a city into a sequence of mistaken encounters. Keep a record of who is being mistaken for whom, then look beneath the com...
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The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean
Read Chapter I of R. M. Ballantyne’s The Coral Island. Ralph introduces travel as a lifelong passion, links it to family history and remembers his departur...
Conduct of life -- Juvenile fictionShipwreck survival -- Juvenile fictionIslands -- Juvenile fiction
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Sixth form / stretch
The Descent of Man
A historical attempt to explain human origins also reveals assumptions inherited from its social setting. Read with a teacher, distinguish empirical compar...
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The Divine Comedy
A journey through imagined realms turns encounters into arguments about conduct, memory and judgement. Begin with a teacher-selected canto and its context,...
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Nursery / shared reading
The Gruffalo
A small mouse travels through a wood and uses a story to respond to hungry animals. Share the rhyme aloud, pause to name the creatures, and let the child n...
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Secondary / sixth form
The Hound of the Baskervilles
A family legend and a threatening landscape complicate an investigation. Compare reported supernatural explanations with observable details, then examine h...
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Secondary / sixth form
The Importance of Being Earnest
Invented identities and elaborate social rules make serious commitments look absurd. Attend to the precision of the dialogue and the reversals of familiar...
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Upper primary / early secondary
The Iron Man
An unexpected metal visitor provokes fear before a different relationship becomes possible. Follow the changing descriptions of the Iron Man and the scale...
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Secondary / sixth form
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Henchard’s attempt to remake his life remains entangled with an earlier decision. Trace how rivalry and concealed knowledge change his relationships, and c...
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Secondary / sixth form
The Merchant of Venice
A loan binds friendship, commerce and religious hostility into a dangerous bargain. Read the courtroom alongside the quieter negotiations about marriage an...
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Secondary / sixth form
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Falstaff’s attempts at profitable courtship meet the coordinated ingenuity of two wives. Follow the circulation of letters and disguises, then contrast the...
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Secondary / sixth form
The Mill on the Floss
Maggie and Tom grow within shared memories but unequal expectations. Read their conflicts through differences in education, obligation and temperament, the...
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The Odyssey
A homecoming story connects adventurous encounters with questions about recognition and responsibility. Compare how Odysseus tells his own experiences with...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
A portrait separates outward beauty from the visible effects of conduct. Read provocative conversations against the consequences of Dorian’s choices, disti...
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The Prince
Advice about political survival examines the gap between public reputation and the means of maintaining authority. Read a selected argument in its historic...
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