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Great Expectations
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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13 resources for “expectations”
Clear search & filtersSecondary / sixth form
A Taste of Honey
Jo’s relationships unfold in a setting where housing, money and social expectations constrain apparent freedom. Attend to the quick exchanges and unstable...
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
An argument about education challenges the habits and expectations that limit women’s opportunities. Follow the relationship between the capacity for reaso...
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Primary / family
Anne of Green Gables
Anne’s arrival at Green Gables unsettles expectations and gradually reshapes a household. Compare her imaginative naming of places with the practical tasks...
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Sixth form / stretch
Frankenstein
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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Sixth form / stretch
Introduction to Computer Science
Use this open textbook to explore the ideas that make computing more than learning syntax. Study how problems are represented, how procedures operate on da...
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Secondary / sixth form
Leave Taking
Family conversations place inherited expectations beside the daughters’ experiences of belonging in Britain. Examine the differences between what character...
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Primary / family
Little Women
The March sisters develop different ambitions within shared family responsibilities. Compare their choices without treating one sister’s path as the only m...
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Secondary / sixth form
Northanger Abbey
Catherine Morland brings the expectations of Gothic fiction into unfamiliar social situations. Compare the pleasure of imagining dramatic explanations with...
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Secondary / sixth form
Persuasion
Anne Elliot must reconsider a decision shaped by advice and social expectations. Attend to restrained conversations and small acts of attention, asking how...
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Pride and Prejudice
Read Chapter I of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. The opening makes a confident claim about a wealthy unmarried man, then shifts attention towards the s...
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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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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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