A family of study sites
English texts, studied properly.
Choose a text below. Each site is a complete companion to one set text or unit: scene and chapter guides, themes and context, verified quotations, and clear guidance on the exam or coursework. Written by a teacher, for students.
GCSE
Five texts and unitsKlara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro · Literature exam
An Artificial Friend narrates a world of love, faith and the Sun. Chapter guides, themes, the AF’s eye, and exam skills.
Open the site →Kindertransport
Diane Samuels · Literature coursework
Samuels’ play of memory and the Kindertransport. Scene guides, the attic and the Ratcatcher, quotations and the coursework.
Open the site →Poetry Anthology
Set poems · Literature exam
The anthology, poem by poem, with the comparison skills the exam rewards, quotations and worked responses.
Open the site →Macbeth
Shakespeare · Literature coursework
The tragedy of ambition and the supernatural. Act-by-act guides, characters, verified quotations and the coursework.
Open the site →Non-Fiction Anthology
Anthology · Language exam
The ten non-fiction texts for the Language paper, with the five reading questions and exam skills.
Open the site →A Level
Five texts and unitsThe Bloody Chamber
Angela Carter · Literature NEA
Carter’s stories for the comparative coursework: a page per story, context, quotations and guidance on pairing with a novel.
Open the site →The Merchant’s Tale
Chaucer · Eduqas poetry set text
Chaucer’s bitterest comedy, glossed line by line: a hypertext edition, themes and characters, the contexts that made it and the critics who have quarrelled over it.
Open the site →Sheers and Heaney
Eduqas · Poetry post-1900
Owen Sheers and Seamus Heaney read side by side for the post-1900 pairing: the poets, the comparison skills the exam rewards, and a practice paper.
Open the site →Unseen Poetry
Eduqas · Component 3
Meeting a poem cold: a method for the unseen, how the question is framed, and structured practice for Section B.
Open the site →Unseen Prose
Eduqas · Component 3
Meeting a prose extract cold: a method for reading under pressure, the questions as framed, and structured practice for Section A.
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