World Literature 0408
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What you'll cover
- Route and preparation
- Literary reading and writing
- 2025–2027 coursework
- 2028–2030 coursework
- Poetry papers
- Set-text paper methods
Published syllabus exam years: 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030. Confirm exam-series and centre availability with your school and Cambridge.
Cambridge IGCSE World Literature 0408 · two-cycle preparation map
2025–2027 Version 2 and 2028–2030 Version 1
35 of 51 skill and reading-preparation entries have teaching and practice
Start the learning pathwayStudy options and assessment
238 original lessons provide 714 guided, independent and transfer tasks, plus 431 reading-tracker and long-response prompts. Twenty skill and route entries, three year-specific Cherry Orchard entries, two Anowa entries, three Crocodiles entries, one 2027 Little Foxes entry, two year-specific Volume 1 poetry entries, one historical 2025 Volume 2 poetry entry and three year-specific Volume 2 story entries link teaching. Anowa has ten lessons through the Prologue and all three phases, with thirty staged tasks and ten original developed responses. Complete primary reading locators support analysis of the contested community frame, partnership, enslavement, the children, remembered dream, separation and ending. The protected play is linked rather than reproduced; editorial BECE material is not reused. Both eligible 2025–2026 Anowa rows link the whole-play pathway. Twenty-eight lessons teach the Author’s Note and all six country chapters of In the Sea There Are Crocodiles, with eighty-four staged tasks and sixty original developed responses. Four workshops teach passage analysis, whole-book argument, layered voice and retrieval/revision. All three complete 2025–2027 book entries link the whole-book pathway; the existing supplemental route remains available without adding another counted requirement. The public reflowed reading is linked rather than reproduced, with edition limits explicit. Twenty-two Little Foxes lessons teach all three acts for 2027, with sixty-six staged tasks and forty-eight original developed responses. Hospitality, silenced voices, the mill, financial negotiation, the proposed marriage, Horace’s return and refusal, the bonds, Birdie’s disclosure, withheld help, the final bargain and Alexandra’s decision are taught through actual stage directions and dialogue locators. Four workshops develop passage analysis, whole-play argument, stagecraft and corrective retrieval. SET-2027-2 links the full sequence; the existing supplemental route remains available without inflating counted requirements. The protected acting script is linked rather than reproduced; exact centre-edition wording and revisions must be checked. The Cherry Orchard has an 18-lesson whole-text sequence with five actual Julius West excerpts and three argument models. The 2026–2027 poetry option has teaching for all fourteen members, three complete public-domain poems and close-reading, comparison and retrieval workshops. Twenty-four lessons teach all ten 2026–2028 Stories of Ourselves Volume 2 members, with named reading and writing sequences and evidence, passage-context, essay and ten-member retrieval workshops. Two complete public-domain narratives, nineteen actual prose extracts and Katie’s complete twenty-line poem within Besant’s prose story support close reading and whole-story writing. The Shrinking Shoe follows the original 1895 prose and its five sections; the embedded poem is not a Paper 2 set poem. All three eligible ten-story selection rows link the complete pathway. Wodehouse and Woolf use brief quotations and original commentary with complete reading sources; their full texts are not reproduced here. Twelve lessons teach twelve compulsory 2028–2030 Volume 3 poems, with thirty-six staged tasks and twenty-four developed-response prompts. The Dutt and Kingsley excerpts and Cissoko’s exact translation still need verified reading and teaching; full-selection workshops remain unfinished, so all three complete poetry rows remain unlinked. Fourteen lessons teach seven 2029–2030 Volume 3 stories with thirty-five developed-response prompts. Twelve actual older primary excerpts support four stories; Achebe, Desai and Danticat use original commentary with complete primary reading links rather than reproducing their protected texts. A separate partial-member pathway supports The Necklace, The Model Millionaire, Sultana’s Dream, The Interlopers, The Sacrificial Egg, Sale and New York Day Women without linking either complete ten-story row. The three other members and full-selection workshops remain unfinished. Read the full centre-selected works and protected anthology; check edition differences, including Weissenhorn’s older Necklace translation. The historical 2025 poetry pathway teaches all fourteen members through eighteen lessons, fifty-four staged tasks and fifty-one developed-response models. Three complete public-domain poems remain printed with line breaks; eleven protected poems use complete primary reading links and original commentary. Four workshops teach close analysis, whole-poem argument, preparation comparisons and specific retrieval of all fourteen members. The complete SET-2025-5 option links this sequence; the historical supplemental route remains without increasing counted requirements. Archival Cambridge and WJEC papers supply primary poems, not reused questions or later-year assessment rules. Centre-edition differences remain explicit. Forty-six lessons provide original teaching and practice for nine historical 2025 story members: The Doll’s House, The Gold Watch, A Visit, A Walk to the Jetty, In the Mountains, Mrs. Sen’s, Promenade, The Plantation and The Paper Menagerie. Together they provide one hundred and thirty-eight staged tasks and one hundred and one developed-response models. A Visit uses complete primary reading visually checked across printed pages 306–310. Promenade follows the complete seven-page narrative on printed pages 416–422; its four lessons trace bodily control, wordless meetings, the interrupted circuit and changed final walk. Mrs. Sen’s has six lessons through the complete story, with eighteen staged tasks and thirteen developed-response models. Teaching follows the collection scan from its unnumbered opening through printed p.135, with food, letters, recordings, separate journeys and the changed final care arrangement. The Plantation has five lessons, fifteen staged tasks and eleven developed-response models through all four numbered sections, visually checked against printed pages 423–429 through the final dawn bird-call. In the Mountains has seven lessons, twenty-one staged tasks and fifteen developed-response models through the final invitation to eat. The complete publisher transcription supports scene-based reading; automated-text errors and subscription access remain explicit, and original printed pages were not visually verified. A Walk to the Jetty has seven lessons, twenty-one staged tasks and fifteen developed-response models through the complete six-page retype’s final berth. Reader annotations and the appended question are separate; the complete publisher version has wording differences, so exact quotations require the approved edition. The centre edition remains required for exact quotations. The protected stories are linked, not reproduced. The partial member pathway is supplemental; Words and full-selection workshops remain unfinished, so SET-2025-6 stays unlinked. Fifteen year-specific prescribed-work entries remain unfinished; complete centre-selected coursework reading also needs substantive text-specific teaching. The 51-entry map is a StudyForA preparation map, not official numbered syllabus sections or a percentage of student mastery. Written practice is self-checked and is not officially marked. Full timed papers and qualified literature-teacher assessment remain unfinished. Fictional exercises are labelled separately from actual excerpts; alternative well-supported readings can be valid. Centre-authenticated coursework and Cambridge moderation are separate from self-check practice.
Choose the syllabus and full reading list for your actual exam year. June and November are listed; private candidates cannot enter 0408. All three components are compulsory. Centre entry, coursework assessment and Cambridge moderation are separate from site practice.
Choose your paper route
- 2025–2027 · All three componentsComponent 1 + Paper 2 + Paper 3
Component 1: two assignments, 50 marks, 38.5%. Use different eligible prose and drama texts from different countries/cultures, outside the Paper 3 list. Paper 2 Unseen Poetry: 75 minutes, 30 marks, 23%, two questions on one unseen poem. Paper 3 Set Text: 90 minutes, 50 marks, 38.5%, one extract question and one essay. Paper 3 is closed book. Coursework is centre-assessed and Cambridge-moderated.
- 2028–2030 · Revised three-component routeComponent 1 + Paper 2 + Paper 3
Each component has 50 marks and approximately one-third weighting. Coursework uses a critical drama essay and an empathic drama essay on the same or different suitable plays. Paper 2 Poetry: 90 minutes, one prescribed-poem question and one unseen-poem question, 25 marks each. Prepare all 15 prescribed Volume 3 poems. Paper 3 Set Text (Prose): 90 minutes, one extract question and one essay, 25 marks each; closed book. Coursework remains centre-assessed and Cambridge-moderated.
The historical 2025 poetry option has teaching for all fourteen members and four whole-selection workshops; its complete option links eighteen lessons while qualified assessment remains unfinished. Twenty-eight Crocodiles lessons cover the Author’s Note, all six chapters and whole-book workshops; its three complete option rows link teaching, with assessment limits retained. Twenty-two Little Foxes lessons teach all three acts and four whole-play workshops for 2027; its complete option links the sequence without claiming individual mastery or qualified assessment. This course has unfinished text-specific teaching beyond Anowa for 2025–2026, Crocodiles for 2025–2027, Little Foxes for 2027, The Cherry Orchard, the 2026–2027 Volume 1 poetry selection, the historical 2025 Volume 2 poetry selection and all ten 2026–2028 Volume 2 stories. Twelve 2028–2030 Volume 3 poems have teaching; the remaining three and the complete poetry requirement remain content gaps. Seven 2029–2030 Volume 3 stories have paired teaching and practice, but three other members and full-selection workshops remain unfinished, so both complete story rows stay unlinked. Read the complete centre-selected works and every required anthology member before treating yourself as prepared. Models are for self-checking and do not supply official marks or authentic assessed coursework. Candidate work and permitted assistance must follow the centre’s rules.
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AO identifiers are Cambridge objectives; other map codes are StudyForA labels that keep exam-cycle requirements separate. Linked methods do not mean a learner has read or mastered the prescribed works. Named set-text reading and teaching gaps are counted as content gaps; teacher assessment and moderation are shown separately. The 2028 revision changes coursework form, poetry preparation, prose choices, timings and component weights.
Route and preparation
- Exam year, compulsory components and question choicesROUTES
- Year-specific selection, edition and complete reading trackerSET-LISTS
Literary reading and writing
- Accurate whole-text knowledge and textual evidenceAO1Select precise evidence and explain what it supportsBuild an argument from claims, evidence and explanationBuild a whole-text evidence map and a closed-book recall planAnalyse viewpoint and test a narrator’s reliabilityRead character through choices, relationships and changeReview a response using all four assessment objectivesRead complete original poems and test your interpretationApply narrative and drama methods to original practice scenes
- Meaning, context and deeper interpretationAO2Use context to deepen a reading without replacing the textBuild an argument from claims, evidence and explanationLocate the poem’s speaker, situation and changing addressAnalyse viewpoint and test a narrator’s reliabilityRead character through choices, relationships and changeReview a response using all four assessment objectivesRead complete original poems and test your interpretationApply narrative and drama methods to original practice scenes
- Language, structure, form and effectsAO3Move from a language choice to a defensible effectExplain how form and sequence shape meaningBuild an argument from claims, evidence and explanationExplore poetic images through verbs, modifiers and contrastsConnect sound and rhythm to the poem’s movementTrace line breaks, stanza changes and a poem’s turnAnalyse viewpoint and test a narrator’s reliabilityRead dramatic action, stage directions and subtextReview a response using all four assessment objectivesRead complete original poems and test your interpretationApply narrative and drama methods to original practice scenes
- Sensitive and informed personal responseAO4
- Holistic self-review and authentic revisionREVIEW
2025–2027 coursework
- 2025–2027 · Different prose/drama texts from different countries or cultures2025-C1-TEXTS
- 2025–2027 · Critical essay method2025-C1-CRITICAL
- 2025–2027 · Empathic response method2025-C1-EMPATHIC
2028–2030 coursework
- 2028–2030 · One or two suitable complete drama texts2028-C1-TEXTS
- 2028–2030 · Critical drama essay method2028-C1-CRITICAL
- 2028–2030 · Empathic drama essay method2028-C1-EMPATHIC
Poetry papers
- 2025–2027 · Two responses to one unseen poem2025-P2Locate the poem’s speaker, situation and changing addressExplore poetic images through verbs, modifiers and contrastsConnect sound and rhythm to the poem’s movementTrace line breaks, stanza changes and a poem’s turnPlan an unseen response around the actual questionChoose questions and review the paper’s required answersRead complete original poems and test your interpretation
- 2028–2030 · Prescribed-poem response method2028-P2-SETPrepare all 15 prescribed poems for the 2028–2030 poetry paperThe Panther · confined movement and an image that cannot remainA Blessing · tactile encounter and a conditional blossomingToroa: Albatross · injured flight, sculptural form and welcomeFrog · bodily invitation and a reversed question#ExtinctionRebellion · a living communications network and unfinished resistanceThe Sun Wanders, Searching for Shade · fertile buildings and a displaced living worldFair Weather · a wish for turbulent love and its wreckageAn Old Colonial Building · uncertain reconstruction and moving reflectionsMap Store · imagined origins, distant homes and an arriving warLeaving Fingerprints · anonymous histories written through living groundwhen faces called flowers float out of the ground · giving, spring and intimate interruptionsCaptain of the Lighthouse · a shared sea-game and a solitary return
- 2028–2030 · Unseen-poem response method2028-P2-UNSEENLocate the poem’s speaker, situation and changing addressExplore poetic images through verbs, modifiers and contrastsConnect sound and rhythm to the poem’s movementTrace line breaks, stanza changes and a poem’s turnPlan an unseen response around the actual questionChoose questions and review the paper’s required answersRead complete original poems and test your interpretation
Set-text paper methods
- 2025–2027 · Set-text extract response2025-P3-ALocate the poem’s speaker, situation and changing addressExplore poetic images through verbs, modifiers and contrastsConnect sound and rhythm to the poem’s movementTrace line breaks, stanza changes and a poem’s turnAnalyse viewpoint and test a narrator’s reliabilityAnalyse an extract and locate its place in the whole workRead dramatic action, stage directions and subtextChoose questions and review the paper’s required answersApply narrative and drama methods to original practice scenesThe Cherry Orchard · choose an edition and read the whole playThe Cherry Orchard · Act One: homecoming, memory and uneaseThe Cherry Orchard · Act One: the proposal to save the estateThe Cherry Orchard · Act Two: work, freedom and competing futuresThe Cherry Orchard · Act Three: a ball while the auction happens elsewhereThe Cherry Orchard · Act Three: Lopakhin buys the estateThe Cherry Orchard · Act Four: the proposal that is never spokenThe Cherry Orchard · Act Four: the forgotten Fiers and the final silenceThe Cherry Orchard · Ranevskaya: generosity, grief and responsibilityThe Cherry Orchard · Lopakhin: work, class and incomplete transformationThe Cherry Orchard · Gaev: eloquence, dependence and failed reassuranceThe Cherry Orchard · Varya: household labour, keys and constrained choicesThe Cherry Orchard · Anya and Trofimov: education, hope and limitsThe Cherry Orchard · servants, Charlotta and Pischin: whose future counts?The Cherry Orchard · sounds, pauses and visible objectsThe Cherry Orchard · whole-play structure and comedy beside lossThe Cherry Orchard · passage workshop with five real excerptsThe Cherry Orchard · build, write and review a whole-play essayAnowa · a community introduces its own difficult storyAnowa · courtship, parental hopes and competing kinds of freedomAnowa · a chosen marriage and a departure that remains disputedAnowa · care and friction on the trading roadAnowa · the purchase debate and the loss of equal decision-makingAnowa · wealth, idleness and the argument over belongingAnowa · the grand house and the childhood story it cannot containAnowa · children, borrowed family names and the empty chairAnowa · a public separation and an ending that contests blameAnowa · build and test an argument across the whole playCrocodiles · a remembered life shaped through conversationCrocodiles · a farewell understood after it has happenedCrocodiles · a valued home and a departure under pressureCrocodiles · education, violence and a listener asked to be preciseCrocodiles · shelter, gratitude and a child’s work at the samavatCrocodiles · listening to a school from outside its wallsCrocodiles · earnings, friendship and promises tested by survivalCrocodiles · deciding to leave on knowledge that cannot guarantee safetyCrocodiles · care, control and uncertain time in KermanCrocodiles · a building site that becomes a worldCrocodiles · friendship, provisional home and interrupted returnCrocodiles · an injured worker and a watch with a historyCrocodiles · deciding to leave and speaking from two worldsCrocodiles · the mountain’s time and the limits of witnessCrocodiles · the lorry, another boy and an incomplete arrivalCrocodiles · five boys, uncertain knowledge and the seaCrocodiles · a divided boat and a missing companionCrocodiles · being noticed, being helped and looking like a touristCrocodiles · Athens, conditional help and temporary workCrocodiles · a cruel joke and an uncertain departure from GreeceCrocodiles · arriving in Italy and being understoodCrocodiles · finding Payam and learning how to be welcomedCrocodiles · safety, useful time and the return to schoolCrocodiles · telling a life and hearing a mother againCrocodiles · passage, context and a developing responseCrocodiles · an argument across the whole journeyCrocodiles · whose voice, whose knowledge, whose interpretation?Crocodiles · retrieve, correct and prepare for teacher reviewLittle Foxes · a handsome room and the work behind hospitalityLittle Foxes · Birdie’s music and the control of a voiceLittle Foxes · selling a mill through manners and a made-up customLittle Foxes · wishes, percentages and who can make a bargainLittle Foxes · Alexandra’s future discussed in her absenceLittle Foxes · a warning, a blow and a false explanationLittle Foxes · a delayed return and different kinds of concernLittle Foxes · a box, a confession and a father’s changing judgementLittle Foxes · a homecoming without an easy reconciliationLittle Foxes · guarantees, cheap labour and a refusal of profitLittle Foxes · a supposed loan and the refusal to knowLittle Foxes · two levels of action and an irreversible quarrelLittle Foxes · a small party and Birdie’s difficult truthLittle Foxes · watching harm and finding a way awayLittle Foxes · missing bonds and an unfinished new willLittle Foxes · medicine, stillness and the staircaseLittle Foxes · a final bargain beside griefLittle Foxes · Alexandra’s choice and the final silenceLittle Foxes · passage analysis through action and dialogueLittle Foxes · a whole-play argument with counterevidenceLittle Foxes · rooms, objects and competing voicesLittle Foxes · whole-play retrieval and revisionThe Spring · seasonal renewal and the speaker’s frustrated exceptionThe Darkling Thrush · a frail bird’s song and the limits of the listener’s knowledgeThe Storm-Wind · force outside and a sheltered place for small soundsAustralia 1970 · fierce resistance and the human cost of conquestComing · anticipated spring and happiness without full understandingStormcock in Elder · close observation and unexpected sustenanceParrot · displaced beauty, anger and the difficult last wishAt the Parrot House, Taronga Park · colour, performance and the hard beakEel Tail · looking, losing and the limits of namingCetacean · measurement, scale and a successful sightingWatching for Dolphins · shared longing and a sighting that does not happenThe Sea Eats the Land at Home · domestic loss and a living seaYou Will Know When You Get There · a descent into uncertain knowledgeThe Stars Go Over the Lonely Ocean · a boar’s advice and the limits of retreat2025 poetry · close reading from a changing moment2025 poetry · a whole-poem argument with contrary evidence2025 poetry · connections without flattening differences2025 poetry · retrieve all fourteen and revise an unsupported claimThe Doll’s House · a gift becomes a social privilegeThe Doll’s House · borrowed voices and a rumour made cruelThe Doll’s House · a crossed gate and a surviving small delightThe Doll’s House · argue across the whole story and correct an overclaimThe Gold Watch · a smile interrupts the office routineThe Gold Watch · private fear behind a cheerful weekendThe Gold Watch · a retirement presented as appreciationThe Gold Watch · unreliable time and a whole-story argumentA Visit · a silent companion and an uncertain kind of understandingA Visit · an invitation without an explained destinationA Visit · possible messages and a meeting beyond reachA Visit · argue about longing without solving every mysteryA Walk to the Jetty · naming a self inside a room made by othersA Walk to the Jetty · prepared care and a smile that conceals feelingA Walk to the Jetty · a short route through a long personal historyA Walk to the Jetty · a bank book, borrowed gestures and a library cardA Walk to the Jetty · familiar words turn from gladness to painA Walk to the Jetty · a final embrace, a red handkerchief and an unsettled berthA Walk to the Jetty · argue through memory, contradiction and an unfinished futureIn the Mountains · affection and judgement in the first meetingIn the Mountains · shelter, social judgement and different kinds of isolationIn the Mountains · a human light and the appeal of an imagined lifeIn the Mountains · hospitality, wounded pride and an excluded friendIn the Mountains · remembered intimacy and an uneasy return to the presentIn the Mountains · a decision to stay and the different meanings of a stoneIn the Mountains · argue through changing judgements and an imperfect connectionMrs. Sen’s · care, domestic skill and a child’s changing view of homeMrs. Sen’s · roads, letters and distances that movement cannot settleMrs. Sen’s · fish, recognition and the limits of dependenceMrs. Sen’s · recorded voices, changing news and an imperfect family pictureMrs. Sen’s · attempts at independence and the accident’s actual sequenceMrs. Sen’s · the key, the final reassurance and a whole-story argumentPromenade · a carefully maintained body and a comforting circuitPromenade · wordless encounters between play and fearPromenade · a delayed departure and an encounter with vulnerabilityPromenade · a changed route and a changed sense of timeThe Plantation · a source of life becomes a private opportunityThe Plantation · a warning spoken, silenced and partly acted onThe Plantation · a crowd’s hunger and a child’s imitation before the blastThe Plantation · a familiar hiding place becomes a night of unanswered waitingThe Plantation · opportunity, loss and an argument across the whole storyThe Paper Menagerie · making life from saved paperThe Paper Menagerie · prejudice changes the value of a toyThe Paper Menagerie · silence, illness and a request left unfinishedThe Paper Menagerie · a letter changes who can tell the storyThe Paper Menagerie · argue across breath, silence and belated understanding2026–2027 poetry · read the full selection and build evidenceChildhood · perception, age and a changed understandingBecause I Could Not Stop for Death · courtesy, correction and timeOne Art · a controlled form under emotional pressureSong: Tears, Idle Tears · memory made both fresh and painfulMy Parents · protection, fear and a desire to connectFor Heidi with Blue Hair · authority, humour and hidden griefPraise Song for my Mother · nourishment, address and freedomFollower · skilled labour and the reversal of dependenceThe Trees are Down · sound, memory and a protest against lossThe Trees · apparent renewal and recorded ageTime’s Fool · discarded things and remembered sufficiencyA Quoi Bon Dire · public time and a private continuity of loveMeeting at Night · desire through movement, senses and quietBecause I Liked You Better · restraint, promises and the final address2026–2027 poetry · close-reading workshop with complete public-domain poems2026–2027 poetry · compare methods without flattening differences2026–2027 poetry · recall all fourteen and review the evidenceTen-story pathway · read the full selection and build an evidence recordDeath of the Laird’s Jock · honour, care and a framed tragedyDeath of the Laird’s Jock · argue about heroism and its costGeorge Silverman’s Explanation · need, shame and being misunderstoodGeorge Silverman’s Explanation · self-sacrifice, satire and a qualified judgementThe Nightingale and the Rose · art, sacrifice and unequal knowledgeThe Nightingale and the Rose · test ideals against the whole endingThe Copper Beeches · performance, observation and a corrected inferenceThe Copper Beeches · argue about agency, authority and hidden dangerA Story of a Wedding Tour · accidental separation and chosen freedomA Story of a Wedding Tour · argue about freedom, care and narrative judgementThe Shrinking Shoe · a fairy-tale promise tested by timeThe Shrinking Shoe · argue about wealth, ideals and renewalGabriel-Ernest · warnings, social labels and an assumed rescueGabriel-Ernest · argue about satire, suspense and public beliefA Warning to the Curious · layered testimony and failed reassuranceA Warning to the Curious · argue about curiosity, punishment and testimonyIndian Summer of an Uncle · Bertie’s voice and Jeeves’s concealed planIndian Summer of an Uncle · argue about class, kindness and comic controlLappin and Lapinova · a shared world and its withdrawalLappin and Lapinova · argue about intimacy, identity and belongingTen-story pathway · analyse a passage in whole-story contextTen-story pathway · write a question-led whole-story argumentTen-story pathway · recall every member and revise a specific gap
- 2025–2027 · Whole-text essay response2025-P3-BBuild a whole-text evidence map and a closed-book recall planLocate the poem’s speaker, situation and changing addressExplore poetic images through verbs, modifiers and contrastsConnect sound and rhythm to the poem’s movementTrace line breaks, stanza changes and a poem’s turnRead character through choices, relationships and changeDevelop a whole-text essay from selected momentsRead dramatic action, stage directions and subtextChoose questions and review the paper’s required answersThe Cherry Orchard · choose an edition and read the whole playThe Cherry Orchard · Act One: homecoming, memory and uneaseThe Cherry Orchard · Act One: the proposal to save the estateThe Cherry Orchard · Act Two: work, freedom and competing futuresThe Cherry Orchard · Act Three: a ball while the auction happens elsewhereThe Cherry Orchard · Act Three: Lopakhin buys the estateThe Cherry Orchard · Act Four: the proposal that is never spokenThe Cherry Orchard · Act Four: the forgotten Fiers and the final silenceThe Cherry Orchard · Ranevskaya: generosity, grief and responsibilityThe Cherry Orchard · Lopakhin: work, class and incomplete transformationThe Cherry Orchard · Gaev: eloquence, dependence and failed reassuranceThe Cherry Orchard · Varya: household labour, keys and constrained choicesThe Cherry Orchard · Anya and Trofimov: education, hope and limitsThe Cherry Orchard · servants, Charlotta and Pischin: whose future counts?The Cherry Orchard · sounds, pauses and visible objectsThe Cherry Orchard · whole-play structure and comedy beside lossThe Cherry Orchard · passage workshop with five real excerptsThe Cherry Orchard · build, write and review a whole-play essayAnowa · a community introduces its own difficult storyAnowa · courtship, parental hopes and competing kinds of freedomAnowa · a chosen marriage and a departure that remains disputedAnowa · care and friction on the trading roadAnowa · the purchase debate and the loss of equal decision-makingAnowa · wealth, idleness and the argument over belongingAnowa · the grand house and the childhood story it cannot containAnowa · children, borrowed family names and the empty chairAnowa · a public separation and an ending that contests blameAnowa · build and test an argument across the whole playCrocodiles · a remembered life shaped through conversationCrocodiles · a farewell understood after it has happenedCrocodiles · a valued home and a departure under pressureCrocodiles · education, violence and a listener asked to be preciseCrocodiles · shelter, gratitude and a child’s work at the samavatCrocodiles · listening to a school from outside its wallsCrocodiles · earnings, friendship and promises tested by survivalCrocodiles · deciding to leave on knowledge that cannot guarantee safetyCrocodiles · care, control and uncertain time in KermanCrocodiles · a building site that becomes a worldCrocodiles · friendship, provisional home and interrupted returnCrocodiles · an injured worker and a watch with a historyCrocodiles · deciding to leave and speaking from two worldsCrocodiles · the mountain’s time and the limits of witnessCrocodiles · the lorry, another boy and an incomplete arrivalCrocodiles · five boys, uncertain knowledge and the seaCrocodiles · a divided boat and a missing companionCrocodiles · being noticed, being helped and looking like a touristCrocodiles · Athens, conditional help and temporary workCrocodiles · a cruel joke and an uncertain departure from GreeceCrocodiles · arriving in Italy and being understoodCrocodiles · finding Payam and learning how to be welcomedCrocodiles · safety, useful time and the return to schoolCrocodiles · telling a life and hearing a mother againCrocodiles · passage, context and a developing responseCrocodiles · an argument across the whole journeyCrocodiles · whose voice, whose knowledge, whose interpretation?Crocodiles · retrieve, correct and prepare for teacher reviewLittle Foxes · a handsome room and the work behind hospitalityLittle Foxes · Birdie’s music and the control of a voiceLittle Foxes · selling a mill through manners and a made-up customLittle Foxes · wishes, percentages and who can make a bargainLittle Foxes · Alexandra’s future discussed in her absenceLittle Foxes · a warning, a blow and a false explanationLittle Foxes · a delayed return and different kinds of concernLittle Foxes · a box, a confession and a father’s changing judgementLittle Foxes · a homecoming without an easy reconciliationLittle Foxes · guarantees, cheap labour and a refusal of profitLittle Foxes · a supposed loan and the refusal to knowLittle Foxes · two levels of action and an irreversible quarrelLittle Foxes · a small party and Birdie’s difficult truthLittle Foxes · watching harm and finding a way awayLittle Foxes · missing bonds and an unfinished new willLittle Foxes · medicine, stillness and the staircaseLittle Foxes · a final bargain beside griefLittle Foxes · Alexandra’s choice and the final silenceLittle Foxes · passage analysis through action and dialogueLittle Foxes · a whole-play argument with counterevidenceLittle Foxes · rooms, objects and competing voicesLittle Foxes · whole-play retrieval and revisionThe Spring · seasonal renewal and the speaker’s frustrated exceptionThe Darkling Thrush · a frail bird’s song and the limits of the listener’s knowledgeThe Storm-Wind · force outside and a sheltered place for small soundsAustralia 1970 · fierce resistance and the human cost of conquestComing · anticipated spring and happiness without full understandingStormcock in Elder · close observation and unexpected sustenanceParrot · displaced beauty, anger and the difficult last wishAt the Parrot House, Taronga Park · colour, performance and the hard beakEel Tail · looking, losing and the limits of namingCetacean · measurement, scale and a successful sightingWatching for Dolphins · shared longing and a sighting that does not happenThe Sea Eats the Land at Home · domestic loss and a living seaYou Will Know When You Get There · a descent into uncertain knowledgeThe Stars Go Over the Lonely Ocean · a boar’s advice and the limits of retreat2025 poetry · close reading from a changing moment2025 poetry · a whole-poem argument with contrary evidence2025 poetry · connections without flattening differences2025 poetry · retrieve all fourteen and revise an unsupported claimThe Doll’s House · a gift becomes a social privilegeThe Doll’s House · borrowed voices and a rumour made cruelThe Doll’s House · a crossed gate and a surviving small delightThe Doll’s House · argue across the whole story and correct an overclaimThe Gold Watch · a smile interrupts the office routineThe Gold Watch · private fear behind a cheerful weekendThe Gold Watch · a retirement presented as appreciationThe Gold Watch · unreliable time and a whole-story argumentA Visit · a silent companion and an uncertain kind of understandingA Visit · an invitation without an explained destinationA Visit · possible messages and a meeting beyond reachA Visit · argue about longing without solving every mysteryA Walk to the Jetty · naming a self inside a room made by othersA Walk to the Jetty · prepared care and a smile that conceals feelingA Walk to the Jetty · a short route through a long personal historyA Walk to the Jetty · a bank book, borrowed gestures and a library cardA Walk to the Jetty · familiar words turn from gladness to painA Walk to the Jetty · a final embrace, a red handkerchief and an unsettled berthA Walk to the Jetty · argue through memory, contradiction and an unfinished futureIn the Mountains · affection and judgement in the first meetingIn the Mountains · shelter, social judgement and different kinds of isolationIn the Mountains · a human light and the appeal of an imagined lifeIn the Mountains · hospitality, wounded pride and an excluded friendIn the Mountains · remembered intimacy and an uneasy return to the presentIn the Mountains · a decision to stay and the different meanings of a stoneIn the Mountains · argue through changing judgements and an imperfect connectionMrs. Sen’s · care, domestic skill and a child’s changing view of homeMrs. Sen’s · roads, letters and distances that movement cannot settleMrs. Sen’s · fish, recognition and the limits of dependenceMrs. Sen’s · recorded voices, changing news and an imperfect family pictureMrs. Sen’s · attempts at independence and the accident’s actual sequenceMrs. Sen’s · the key, the final reassurance and a whole-story argumentPromenade · a carefully maintained body and a comforting circuitPromenade · wordless encounters between play and fearPromenade · a delayed departure and an encounter with vulnerabilityPromenade · a changed route and a changed sense of timeThe Plantation · a source of life becomes a private opportunityThe Plantation · a warning spoken, silenced and partly acted onThe Plantation · a crowd’s hunger and a child’s imitation before the blastThe Plantation · a familiar hiding place becomes a night of unanswered waitingThe Plantation · opportunity, loss and an argument across the whole storyThe Paper Menagerie · making life from saved paperThe Paper Menagerie · prejudice changes the value of a toyThe Paper Menagerie · silence, illness and a request left unfinishedThe Paper Menagerie · a letter changes who can tell the storyThe Paper Menagerie · argue across breath, silence and belated understanding2026–2027 poetry · read the full selection and build evidenceChildhood · perception, age and a changed understandingBecause I Could Not Stop for Death · courtesy, correction and timeOne Art · a controlled form under emotional pressureSong: Tears, Idle Tears · memory made both fresh and painfulMy Parents · protection, fear and a desire to connectFor Heidi with Blue Hair · authority, humour and hidden griefPraise Song for my Mother · nourishment, address and freedomFollower · skilled labour and the reversal of dependenceThe Trees are Down · sound, memory and a protest against lossThe Trees · apparent renewal and recorded ageTime’s Fool · discarded things and remembered sufficiencyA Quoi Bon Dire · public time and a private continuity of loveMeeting at Night · desire through movement, senses and quietBecause I Liked You Better · restraint, promises and the final address2026–2027 poetry · close-reading workshop with complete public-domain poems2026–2027 poetry · compare methods without flattening differences2026–2027 poetry · recall all fourteen and review the evidenceTen-story pathway · read the full selection and build an evidence recordDeath of the Laird’s Jock · honour, care and a framed tragedyDeath of the Laird’s Jock · argue about heroism and its costGeorge Silverman’s Explanation · need, shame and being misunderstoodGeorge Silverman’s Explanation · self-sacrifice, satire and a qualified judgementThe Nightingale and the Rose · art, sacrifice and unequal knowledgeThe Nightingale and the Rose · test ideals against the whole endingThe Copper Beeches · performance, observation and a corrected inferenceThe Copper Beeches · argue about agency, authority and hidden dangerA Story of a Wedding Tour · accidental separation and chosen freedomA Story of a Wedding Tour · argue about freedom, care and narrative judgementThe Shrinking Shoe · a fairy-tale promise tested by timeThe Shrinking Shoe · argue about wealth, ideals and renewalGabriel-Ernest · warnings, social labels and an assumed rescueGabriel-Ernest · argue about satire, suspense and public beliefA Warning to the Curious · layered testimony and failed reassuranceA Warning to the Curious · argue about curiosity, punishment and testimonyIndian Summer of an Uncle · Bertie’s voice and Jeeves’s concealed planIndian Summer of an Uncle · argue about class, kindness and comic controlLappin and Lapinova · a shared world and its withdrawalLappin and Lapinova · argue about intimacy, identity and belongingTen-story pathway · analyse a passage in whole-story contextTen-story pathway · write a question-led whole-story argumentTen-story pathway · recall every member and revise a specific gap
- 2028–2030 · Prose extract in whole-text context2028-P3-AAnalyse viewpoint and test a narrator’s reliabilityAnalyse an extract and locate its place in the whole workChoose questions and review the paper’s required answersApply narrative and drama methods to original practice scenesTen-story pathway · read the full selection and build an evidence recordDeath of the Laird’s Jock · honour, care and a framed tragedyDeath of the Laird’s Jock · argue about heroism and its costGeorge Silverman’s Explanation · need, shame and being misunderstoodGeorge Silverman’s Explanation · self-sacrifice, satire and a qualified judgementThe Nightingale and the Rose · art, sacrifice and unequal knowledgeThe Nightingale and the Rose · test ideals against the whole endingThe Copper Beeches · performance, observation and a corrected inferenceThe Copper Beeches · argue about agency, authority and hidden dangerA Story of a Wedding Tour · accidental separation and chosen freedomA Story of a Wedding Tour · argue about freedom, care and narrative judgementThe Shrinking Shoe · a fairy-tale promise tested by timeThe Shrinking Shoe · argue about wealth, ideals and renewalGabriel-Ernest · warnings, social labels and an assumed rescueGabriel-Ernest · argue about satire, suspense and public beliefA Warning to the Curious · layered testimony and failed reassuranceA Warning to the Curious · argue about curiosity, punishment and testimonyIndian Summer of an Uncle · Bertie’s voice and Jeeves’s concealed planIndian Summer of an Uncle · argue about class, kindness and comic controlLappin and Lapinova · a shared world and its withdrawalLappin and Lapinova · argue about intimacy, identity and belongingTen-story pathway · analyse a passage in whole-story contextTen-story pathway · write a question-led whole-story argumentTen-story pathway · recall every member and revise a specific gapThe Necklace · desired appearances and the cost of concealmentThe Necklace · an argument about pride, circumstance and delayed knowledgeThe Model Millionaire · an appearance of poverty and a costly kindnessThe Model Millionaire · irony, generosity and a financial happy endingSultana’s Dream · a reversed social order explained through dialogueSultana’s Dream · evaluating satire, scientific power and incomplete freedomThe Interlopers · inherited hatred, changed intentions and approaching wolvesThe Interlopers · feud, reconciliation and the limits of a human claimThe Sacrificial Egg · a remembered night inside an empty presentThe Sacrificial Egg · build an argument about belief, distance and lossSale · artistic excitement, buyers’ praise and an unpaid departureSale · argue about artistic value, need and the force of an uncompleted transactionNew York Day Women · seeing a mother beyond a familiar portraitNew York Day Women · write about intimacy, independent lives and incomplete knowledge
- 2028–2030 · Prose whole-text essay2028-P3-BBuild a whole-text evidence map and a closed-book recall planRead character through choices, relationships and changeDevelop a whole-text essay from selected momentsChoose questions and review the paper’s required answersTen-story pathway · read the full selection and build an evidence recordDeath of the Laird’s Jock · honour, care and a framed tragedyDeath of the Laird’s Jock · argue about heroism and its costGeorge Silverman’s Explanation · need, shame and being misunderstoodGeorge Silverman’s Explanation · self-sacrifice, satire and a qualified judgementThe Nightingale and the Rose · art, sacrifice and unequal knowledgeThe Nightingale and the Rose · test ideals against the whole endingThe Copper Beeches · performance, observation and a corrected inferenceThe Copper Beeches · argue about agency, authority and hidden dangerA Story of a Wedding Tour · accidental separation and chosen freedomA Story of a Wedding Tour · argue about freedom, care and narrative judgementThe Shrinking Shoe · a fairy-tale promise tested by timeThe Shrinking Shoe · argue about wealth, ideals and renewalGabriel-Ernest · warnings, social labels and an assumed rescueGabriel-Ernest · argue about satire, suspense and public beliefA Warning to the Curious · layered testimony and failed reassuranceA Warning to the Curious · argue about curiosity, punishment and testimonyIndian Summer of an Uncle · Bertie’s voice and Jeeves’s concealed planIndian Summer of an Uncle · argue about class, kindness and comic controlLappin and Lapinova · a shared world and its withdrawalLappin and Lapinova · argue about intimacy, identity and belongingTen-story pathway · analyse a passage in whole-story contextTen-story pathway · write a question-led whole-story argumentTen-story pathway · recall every member and revise a specific gapThe Necklace · desired appearances and the cost of concealmentThe Necklace · an argument about pride, circumstance and delayed knowledgeThe Model Millionaire · an appearance of poverty and a costly kindnessThe Model Millionaire · irony, generosity and a financial happy endingSultana’s Dream · a reversed social order explained through dialogueSultana’s Dream · evaluating satire, scientific power and incomplete freedomThe Interlopers · inherited hatred, changed intentions and approaching wolvesThe Interlopers · feud, reconciliation and the limits of a human claimThe Sacrificial Egg · a remembered night inside an empty presentThe Sacrificial Egg · build an argument about belief, distance and lossSale · artistic excitement, buyers’ praise and an unpaid departureSale · argue about artistic value, need and the force of an uncompleted transactionNew York Day Women · seeing a mother beyond a familiar portraitNew York Day Women · write about intimacy, independent lives and incomplete knowledge
2025 prescribed-text preparation
- 2025 · Paper 3 · Fever DreamSET-2025-1Lessons not available yet
- 2025 · Paper 3 · AnowaSET-2025-2Anowa · a community introduces its own difficult storyAnowa · courtship, parental hopes and competing kinds of freedomAnowa · a chosen marriage and a departure that remains disputedAnowa · care and friction on the trading roadAnowa · the purchase debate and the loss of equal decision-makingAnowa · wealth, idleness and the argument over belongingAnowa · the grand house and the childhood story it cannot containAnowa · children, borrowed family names and the empty chairAnowa · a public separation and an ending that contests blameAnowa · build and test an argument across the whole play
- 2025 · Paper 3 · In the Sea There are CrocodilesSET-2025-3Crocodiles · a remembered life shaped through conversationCrocodiles · a farewell understood after it has happenedCrocodiles · a valued home and a departure under pressureCrocodiles · education, violence and a listener asked to be preciseCrocodiles · shelter, gratitude and a child’s work at the samavatCrocodiles · listening to a school from outside its wallsCrocodiles · earnings, friendship and promises tested by survivalCrocodiles · deciding to leave on knowledge that cannot guarantee safetyCrocodiles · care, control and uncertain time in KermanCrocodiles · a building site that becomes a worldCrocodiles · friendship, provisional home and interrupted returnCrocodiles · an injured worker and a watch with a historyCrocodiles · deciding to leave and speaking from two worldsCrocodiles · the mountain’s time and the limits of witnessCrocodiles · the lorry, another boy and an incomplete arrivalCrocodiles · five boys, uncertain knowledge and the seaCrocodiles · a divided boat and a missing companionCrocodiles · being noticed, being helped and looking like a touristCrocodiles · Athens, conditional help and temporary workCrocodiles · a cruel joke and an uncertain departure from GreeceCrocodiles · arriving in Italy and being understoodCrocodiles · finding Payam and learning how to be welcomedCrocodiles · safety, useful time and the return to schoolCrocodiles · telling a life and hearing a mother againCrocodiles · passage, context and a developing responseCrocodiles · an argument across the whole journeyCrocodiles · whose voice, whose knowledge, whose interpretation?Crocodiles · retrieve, correct and prepare for teacher review
- 2025 · Paper 3 · The Cherry OrchardSET-2025-4The Cherry Orchard · choose an edition and read the whole playThe Cherry Orchard · Act One: homecoming, memory and uneaseThe Cherry Orchard · Act One: the proposal to save the estateThe Cherry Orchard · Act Two: work, freedom and competing futuresThe Cherry Orchard · Act Three: a ball while the auction happens elsewhereThe Cherry Orchard · Act Three: Lopakhin buys the estateThe Cherry Orchard · Act Four: the proposal that is never spokenThe Cherry Orchard · Act Four: the forgotten Fiers and the final silenceThe Cherry Orchard · Ranevskaya: generosity, grief and responsibilityThe Cherry Orchard · Lopakhin: work, class and incomplete transformationThe Cherry Orchard · Gaev: eloquence, dependence and failed reassuranceThe Cherry Orchard · Varya: household labour, keys and constrained choicesThe Cherry Orchard · Anya and Trofimov: education, hope and limitsThe Cherry Orchard · servants, Charlotta and Pischin: whose future counts?The Cherry Orchard · sounds, pauses and visible objectsThe Cherry Orchard · whole-play structure and comedy beside lossThe Cherry Orchard · passage workshop with five real excerptsThe Cherry Orchard · build, write and review a whole-play essay
- 2025 · Paper 3 · Songs of Ourselves, Volume 2 · 2025 selectionSET-2025-5The Spring · seasonal renewal and the speaker’s frustrated exceptionThe Darkling Thrush · a frail bird’s song and the limits of the listener’s knowledgeThe Storm-Wind · force outside and a sheltered place for small soundsAustralia 1970 · fierce resistance and the human cost of conquestComing · anticipated spring and happiness without full understandingStormcock in Elder · close observation and unexpected sustenanceParrot · displaced beauty, anger and the difficult last wishAt the Parrot House, Taronga Park · colour, performance and the hard beakEel Tail · looking, losing and the limits of namingCetacean · measurement, scale and a successful sightingWatching for Dolphins · shared longing and a sighting that does not happenThe Sea Eats the Land at Home · domestic loss and a living seaYou Will Know When You Get There · a descent into uncertain knowledgeThe Stars Go Over the Lonely Ocean · a boar’s advice and the limits of retreat2025 poetry · close reading from a changing moment2025 poetry · a whole-poem argument with contrary evidence2025 poetry · connections without flattening differences2025 poetry · retrieve all fourteen and revise an unsupported claim
- 2025 · Paper 3 · Stories of Ourselves, Volume 2 · 2025 selectionSET-2025-6Lessons not available yet
2026 prescribed-text preparation
- 2026 · Paper 3 · Fever DreamSET-2026-1Lessons not available yet
- 2026 · Paper 3 · AnowaSET-2026-2Anowa · a community introduces its own difficult storyAnowa · courtship, parental hopes and competing kinds of freedomAnowa · a chosen marriage and a departure that remains disputedAnowa · care and friction on the trading roadAnowa · the purchase debate and the loss of equal decision-makingAnowa · wealth, idleness and the argument over belongingAnowa · the grand house and the childhood story it cannot containAnowa · children, borrowed family names and the empty chairAnowa · a public separation and an ending that contests blameAnowa · build and test an argument across the whole play
- 2026 · Paper 3 · In the Sea There are CrocodilesSET-2026-3Crocodiles · a remembered life shaped through conversationCrocodiles · a farewell understood after it has happenedCrocodiles · a valued home and a departure under pressureCrocodiles · education, violence and a listener asked to be preciseCrocodiles · shelter, gratitude and a child’s work at the samavatCrocodiles · listening to a school from outside its wallsCrocodiles · earnings, friendship and promises tested by survivalCrocodiles · deciding to leave on knowledge that cannot guarantee safetyCrocodiles · care, control and uncertain time in KermanCrocodiles · a building site that becomes a worldCrocodiles · friendship, provisional home and interrupted returnCrocodiles · an injured worker and a watch with a historyCrocodiles · deciding to leave and speaking from two worldsCrocodiles · the mountain’s time and the limits of witnessCrocodiles · the lorry, another boy and an incomplete arrivalCrocodiles · five boys, uncertain knowledge and the seaCrocodiles · a divided boat and a missing companionCrocodiles · being noticed, being helped and looking like a touristCrocodiles · Athens, conditional help and temporary workCrocodiles · a cruel joke and an uncertain departure from GreeceCrocodiles · arriving in Italy and being understoodCrocodiles · finding Payam and learning how to be welcomedCrocodiles · safety, useful time and the return to schoolCrocodiles · telling a life and hearing a mother againCrocodiles · passage, context and a developing responseCrocodiles · an argument across the whole journeyCrocodiles · whose voice, whose knowledge, whose interpretation?Crocodiles · retrieve, correct and prepare for teacher review
- 2026 · Paper 3 · The Cherry OrchardSET-2026-4The Cherry Orchard · choose an edition and read the whole playThe Cherry Orchard · Act One: homecoming, memory and uneaseThe Cherry Orchard · Act One: the proposal to save the estateThe Cherry Orchard · Act Two: work, freedom and competing futuresThe Cherry Orchard · Act Three: a ball while the auction happens elsewhereThe Cherry Orchard · Act Three: Lopakhin buys the estateThe Cherry Orchard · Act Four: the proposal that is never spokenThe Cherry Orchard · Act Four: the forgotten Fiers and the final silenceThe Cherry Orchard · Ranevskaya: generosity, grief and responsibilityThe Cherry Orchard · Lopakhin: work, class and incomplete transformationThe Cherry Orchard · Gaev: eloquence, dependence and failed reassuranceThe Cherry Orchard · Varya: household labour, keys and constrained choicesThe Cherry Orchard · Anya and Trofimov: education, hope and limitsThe Cherry Orchard · servants, Charlotta and Pischin: whose future counts?The Cherry Orchard · sounds, pauses and visible objectsThe Cherry Orchard · whole-play structure and comedy beside lossThe Cherry Orchard · passage workshop with five real excerptsThe Cherry Orchard · build, write and review a whole-play essay
- 2026 · Paper 3 · Songs of Ourselves, Volume 1 · 2026 selectionSET-2026-52026–2027 poetry · read the full selection and build evidenceChildhood · perception, age and a changed understandingBecause I Could Not Stop for Death · courtesy, correction and timeOne Art · a controlled form under emotional pressureSong: Tears, Idle Tears · memory made both fresh and painfulMy Parents · protection, fear and a desire to connectFor Heidi with Blue Hair · authority, humour and hidden griefPraise Song for my Mother · nourishment, address and freedomFollower · skilled labour and the reversal of dependenceThe Trees are Down · sound, memory and a protest against lossThe Trees · apparent renewal and recorded ageTime’s Fool · discarded things and remembered sufficiencyA Quoi Bon Dire · public time and a private continuity of loveMeeting at Night · desire through movement, senses and quietBecause I Liked You Better · restraint, promises and the final address2026–2027 poetry · close-reading workshop with complete public-domain poems2026–2027 poetry · compare methods without flattening differences2026–2027 poetry · recall all fourteen and review the evidence
- 2026 · Paper 3 · Stories of Ourselves, Volume 2 · 2026 selectionSET-2026-6Ten-story pathway · read the full selection and build an evidence recordDeath of the Laird’s Jock · honour, care and a framed tragedyDeath of the Laird’s Jock · argue about heroism and its costGeorge Silverman’s Explanation · need, shame and being misunderstoodGeorge Silverman’s Explanation · self-sacrifice, satire and a qualified judgementThe Nightingale and the Rose · art, sacrifice and unequal knowledgeThe Nightingale and the Rose · test ideals against the whole endingThe Copper Beeches · performance, observation and a corrected inferenceThe Copper Beeches · argue about agency, authority and hidden dangerA Story of a Wedding Tour · accidental separation and chosen freedomA Story of a Wedding Tour · argue about freedom, care and narrative judgementThe Shrinking Shoe · a fairy-tale promise tested by timeThe Shrinking Shoe · argue about wealth, ideals and renewalGabriel-Ernest · warnings, social labels and an assumed rescueGabriel-Ernest · argue about satire, suspense and public beliefA Warning to the Curious · layered testimony and failed reassuranceA Warning to the Curious · argue about curiosity, punishment and testimonyIndian Summer of an Uncle · Bertie’s voice and Jeeves’s concealed planIndian Summer of an Uncle · argue about class, kindness and comic controlLappin and Lapinova · a shared world and its withdrawalLappin and Lapinova · argue about intimacy, identity and belongingTen-story pathway · analyse a passage in whole-story contextTen-story pathway · write a question-led whole-story argumentTen-story pathway · recall every member and revise a specific gap
2027 prescribed-text preparation
- 2027 · Paper 3 · A Man of the PeopleSET-2027-1Lessons not available yet
- 2027 · Paper 3 · Little FoxesSET-2027-2Little Foxes · a handsome room and the work behind hospitalityLittle Foxes · Birdie’s music and the control of a voiceLittle Foxes · selling a mill through manners and a made-up customLittle Foxes · wishes, percentages and who can make a bargainLittle Foxes · Alexandra’s future discussed in her absenceLittle Foxes · a warning, a blow and a false explanationLittle Foxes · a delayed return and different kinds of concernLittle Foxes · a box, a confession and a father’s changing judgementLittle Foxes · a homecoming without an easy reconciliationLittle Foxes · guarantees, cheap labour and a refusal of profitLittle Foxes · a supposed loan and the refusal to knowLittle Foxes · two levels of action and an irreversible quarrelLittle Foxes · a small party and Birdie’s difficult truthLittle Foxes · watching harm and finding a way awayLittle Foxes · missing bonds and an unfinished new willLittle Foxes · medicine, stillness and the staircaseLittle Foxes · a final bargain beside griefLittle Foxes · Alexandra’s choice and the final silenceLittle Foxes · passage analysis through action and dialogueLittle Foxes · a whole-play argument with counterevidenceLittle Foxes · rooms, objects and competing voicesLittle Foxes · whole-play retrieval and revision
- 2027 · Paper 3 · In the Sea There are CrocodilesSET-2027-3Crocodiles · a remembered life shaped through conversationCrocodiles · a farewell understood after it has happenedCrocodiles · a valued home and a departure under pressureCrocodiles · education, violence and a listener asked to be preciseCrocodiles · shelter, gratitude and a child’s work at the samavatCrocodiles · listening to a school from outside its wallsCrocodiles · earnings, friendship and promises tested by survivalCrocodiles · deciding to leave on knowledge that cannot guarantee safetyCrocodiles · care, control and uncertain time in KermanCrocodiles · a building site that becomes a worldCrocodiles · friendship, provisional home and interrupted returnCrocodiles · an injured worker and a watch with a historyCrocodiles · deciding to leave and speaking from two worldsCrocodiles · the mountain’s time and the limits of witnessCrocodiles · the lorry, another boy and an incomplete arrivalCrocodiles · five boys, uncertain knowledge and the seaCrocodiles · a divided boat and a missing companionCrocodiles · being noticed, being helped and looking like a touristCrocodiles · Athens, conditional help and temporary workCrocodiles · a cruel joke and an uncertain departure from GreeceCrocodiles · arriving in Italy and being understoodCrocodiles · finding Payam and learning how to be welcomedCrocodiles · safety, useful time and the return to schoolCrocodiles · telling a life and hearing a mother againCrocodiles · passage, context and a developing responseCrocodiles · an argument across the whole journeyCrocodiles · whose voice, whose knowledge, whose interpretation?Crocodiles · retrieve, correct and prepare for teacher review
- 2027 · Paper 3 · The Cherry OrchardSET-2027-4The Cherry Orchard · choose an edition and read the whole playThe Cherry Orchard · Act One: homecoming, memory and uneaseThe Cherry Orchard · Act One: the proposal to save the estateThe Cherry Orchard · Act Two: work, freedom and competing futuresThe Cherry Orchard · Act Three: a ball while the auction happens elsewhereThe Cherry Orchard · Act Three: Lopakhin buys the estateThe Cherry Orchard · Act Four: the proposal that is never spokenThe Cherry Orchard · Act Four: the forgotten Fiers and the final silenceThe Cherry Orchard · Ranevskaya: generosity, grief and responsibilityThe Cherry Orchard · Lopakhin: work, class and incomplete transformationThe Cherry Orchard · Gaev: eloquence, dependence and failed reassuranceThe Cherry Orchard · Varya: household labour, keys and constrained choicesThe Cherry Orchard · Anya and Trofimov: education, hope and limitsThe Cherry Orchard · servants, Charlotta and Pischin: whose future counts?The Cherry Orchard · sounds, pauses and visible objectsThe Cherry Orchard · whole-play structure and comedy beside lossThe Cherry Orchard · passage workshop with five real excerptsThe Cherry Orchard · build, write and review a whole-play essay
- 2027 · Paper 3 · Songs of Ourselves, Volume 1 · 2027 selectionSET-2027-52026–2027 poetry · read the full selection and build evidenceChildhood · perception, age and a changed understandingBecause I Could Not Stop for Death · courtesy, correction and timeOne Art · a controlled form under emotional pressureSong: Tears, Idle Tears · memory made both fresh and painfulMy Parents · protection, fear and a desire to connectFor Heidi with Blue Hair · authority, humour and hidden griefPraise Song for my Mother · nourishment, address and freedomFollower · skilled labour and the reversal of dependenceThe Trees are Down · sound, memory and a protest against lossThe Trees · apparent renewal and recorded ageTime’s Fool · discarded things and remembered sufficiencyA Quoi Bon Dire · public time and a private continuity of loveMeeting at Night · desire through movement, senses and quietBecause I Liked You Better · restraint, promises and the final address2026–2027 poetry · close-reading workshop with complete public-domain poems2026–2027 poetry · compare methods without flattening differences2026–2027 poetry · recall all fourteen and review the evidence
- 2027 · Paper 3 · Stories of Ourselves, Volume 2 · 2027 selectionSET-2027-6Ten-story pathway · read the full selection and build an evidence recordDeath of the Laird’s Jock · honour, care and a framed tragedyDeath of the Laird’s Jock · argue about heroism and its costGeorge Silverman’s Explanation · need, shame and being misunderstoodGeorge Silverman’s Explanation · self-sacrifice, satire and a qualified judgementThe Nightingale and the Rose · art, sacrifice and unequal knowledgeThe Nightingale and the Rose · test ideals against the whole endingThe Copper Beeches · performance, observation and a corrected inferenceThe Copper Beeches · argue about agency, authority and hidden dangerA Story of a Wedding Tour · accidental separation and chosen freedomA Story of a Wedding Tour · argue about freedom, care and narrative judgementThe Shrinking Shoe · a fairy-tale promise tested by timeThe Shrinking Shoe · argue about wealth, ideals and renewalGabriel-Ernest · warnings, social labels and an assumed rescueGabriel-Ernest · argue about satire, suspense and public beliefA Warning to the Curious · layered testimony and failed reassuranceA Warning to the Curious · argue about curiosity, punishment and testimonyIndian Summer of an Uncle · Bertie’s voice and Jeeves’s concealed planIndian Summer of an Uncle · argue about class, kindness and comic controlLappin and Lapinova · a shared world and its withdrawalLappin and Lapinova · argue about intimacy, identity and belongingTen-story pathway · analyse a passage in whole-story contextTen-story pathway · write a question-led whole-story argumentTen-story pathway · recall every member and revise a specific gap
2028 prescribed-text preparation
- 2028 · Paper 2 · Songs of Ourselves, Volume 3 · compulsory poetry selectionSET-2028-1Lessons not available yet
- 2028 · Paper 3 · A Man of the PeopleSET-2028-2Lessons not available yet
- 2028 · Paper 3 · Convenience Store WomanSET-2028-3Lessons not available yet
- 2028 · Paper 3 · Stories of Ourselves, Volume 2 · 2028 selectionSET-2028-4Ten-story pathway · read the full selection and build an evidence recordDeath of the Laird’s Jock · honour, care and a framed tragedyDeath of the Laird’s Jock · argue about heroism and its costGeorge Silverman’s Explanation · need, shame and being misunderstoodGeorge Silverman’s Explanation · self-sacrifice, satire and a qualified judgementThe Nightingale and the Rose · art, sacrifice and unequal knowledgeThe Nightingale and the Rose · test ideals against the whole endingThe Copper Beeches · performance, observation and a corrected inferenceThe Copper Beeches · argue about agency, authority and hidden dangerA Story of a Wedding Tour · accidental separation and chosen freedomA Story of a Wedding Tour · argue about freedom, care and narrative judgementThe Shrinking Shoe · a fairy-tale promise tested by timeThe Shrinking Shoe · argue about wealth, ideals and renewalGabriel-Ernest · warnings, social labels and an assumed rescueGabriel-Ernest · argue about satire, suspense and public beliefA Warning to the Curious · layered testimony and failed reassuranceA Warning to the Curious · argue about curiosity, punishment and testimonyIndian Summer of an Uncle · Bertie’s voice and Jeeves’s concealed planIndian Summer of an Uncle · argue about class, kindness and comic controlLappin and Lapinova · a shared world and its withdrawalLappin and Lapinova · argue about intimacy, identity and belongingTen-story pathway · analyse a passage in whole-story contextTen-story pathway · write a question-led whole-story argumentTen-story pathway · recall every member and revise a specific gap
2029 prescribed-text preparation
- 2029 · Paper 2 · Songs of Ourselves, Volume 3 · compulsory poetry selectionSET-2029-1Lessons not available yet
- 2029 · Paper 3 · A Man of the PeopleSET-2029-2Lessons not available yet
- 2029 · Paper 3 · Convenience Store WomanSET-2029-3Lessons not available yet
- 2029 · Paper 3 · Stories of Ourselves, Volume 3 · 2029 selectionSET-2029-4Lessons not available yet
2030 prescribed-text preparation
- 2030 · Paper 2 · Songs of Ourselves, Volume 3 · compulsory poetry selectionSET-2030-1Lessons not available yet
- 2030 · Paper 3 · Fasting, FeastingSET-2030-2Lessons not available yet
- 2030 · Paper 3 · Convenience Store WomanSET-2030-3Lessons not available yet
- 2030 · Paper 3 · Stories of Ourselves, Volume 3 · 2030 selectionSET-2030-4Lessons not available yet
Whole-book preparation
- 2025–2027 · Crocodiles · whole-book pathway2025-P3-CROCODILES · Supplemental StudyForA practice, not a syllabus sectionCrocodiles · a remembered life shaped through conversationCrocodiles · a farewell understood after it has happenedCrocodiles · a valued home and a departure under pressureCrocodiles · education, violence and a listener asked to be preciseCrocodiles · shelter, gratitude and a child’s work at the samavatCrocodiles · listening to a school from outside its wallsCrocodiles · earnings, friendship and promises tested by survivalCrocodiles · deciding to leave on knowledge that cannot guarantee safetyCrocodiles · care, control and uncertain time in KermanCrocodiles · a building site that becomes a worldCrocodiles · friendship, provisional home and interrupted returnCrocodiles · an injured worker and a watch with a historyCrocodiles · deciding to leave and speaking from two worldsCrocodiles · the mountain’s time and the limits of witnessCrocodiles · the lorry, another boy and an incomplete arrivalCrocodiles · five boys, uncertain knowledge and the seaCrocodiles · a divided boat and a missing companionCrocodiles · being noticed, being helped and looking like a touristCrocodiles · Athens, conditional help and temporary workCrocodiles · a cruel joke and an uncertain departure from GreeceCrocodiles · arriving in Italy and being understoodCrocodiles · finding Payam and learning how to be welcomedCrocodiles · safety, useful time and the return to schoolCrocodiles · telling a life and hearing a mother againCrocodiles · passage, context and a developing responseCrocodiles · an argument across the whole journeyCrocodiles · whose voice, whose knowledge, whose interpretation?Crocodiles · retrieve, correct and prepare for teacher review
Supplemental selected-work navigation
- 2027 · Little Foxes · whole-play pathway2027-P3-FOXES · Supplemental StudyForA practice, not a syllabus sectionLittle Foxes · a handsome room and the work behind hospitalityLittle Foxes · Birdie’s music and the control of a voiceLittle Foxes · selling a mill through manners and a made-up customLittle Foxes · wishes, percentages and who can make a bargainLittle Foxes · Alexandra’s future discussed in her absenceLittle Foxes · a warning, a blow and a false explanationLittle Foxes · a delayed return and different kinds of concernLittle Foxes · a box, a confession and a father’s changing judgementLittle Foxes · a homecoming without an easy reconciliationLittle Foxes · guarantees, cheap labour and a refusal of profitLittle Foxes · a supposed loan and the refusal to knowLittle Foxes · two levels of action and an irreversible quarrelLittle Foxes · a small party and Birdie’s difficult truthLittle Foxes · watching harm and finding a way awayLittle Foxes · missing bonds and an unfinished new willLittle Foxes · medicine, stillness and the staircaseLittle Foxes · a final bargain beside griefLittle Foxes · Alexandra’s choice and the final silenceLittle Foxes · passage analysis through action and dialogueLittle Foxes · a whole-play argument with counterevidenceLittle Foxes · rooms, objects and competing voicesLittle Foxes · whole-play retrieval and revision
Supplemental historical navigation
- 2025 · Volume 2 poetry · whole-selection historical pathway2025-P3-POEMS · Supplemental StudyForA practice, not a syllabus sectionThe Spring · seasonal renewal and the speaker’s frustrated exceptionThe Darkling Thrush · a frail bird’s song and the limits of the listener’s knowledgeThe Storm-Wind · force outside and a sheltered place for small soundsAustralia 1970 · fierce resistance and the human cost of conquestComing · anticipated spring and happiness without full understandingStormcock in Elder · close observation and unexpected sustenanceParrot · displaced beauty, anger and the difficult last wishAt the Parrot House, Taronga Park · colour, performance and the hard beakEel Tail · looking, losing and the limits of namingCetacean · measurement, scale and a successful sightingWatching for Dolphins · shared longing and a sighting that does not happenThe Sea Eats the Land at Home · domestic loss and a living seaYou Will Know When You Get There · a descent into uncertain knowledgeThe Stars Go Over the Lonely Ocean · a boar’s advice and the limits of retreat2025 poetry · close reading from a changing moment2025 poetry · a whole-poem argument with contrary evidence2025 poetry · connections without flattening differences2025 poetry · retrieve all fourteen and revise an unsupported claim
- 2025 · Nine Volume 2 story members · partial teaching pathway2025-P3-STORIES · Supplemental StudyForA practice, not a syllabus sectionThe Doll’s House · a gift becomes a social privilegeThe Doll’s House · borrowed voices and a rumour made cruelThe Doll’s House · a crossed gate and a surviving small delightThe Doll’s House · argue across the whole story and correct an overclaimThe Gold Watch · a smile interrupts the office routineThe Gold Watch · private fear behind a cheerful weekendThe Gold Watch · a retirement presented as appreciationThe Gold Watch · unreliable time and a whole-story argumentA Visit · a silent companion and an uncertain kind of understandingA Visit · an invitation without an explained destinationA Visit · possible messages and a meeting beyond reachA Visit · argue about longing without solving every mysteryA Walk to the Jetty · naming a self inside a room made by othersA Walk to the Jetty · prepared care and a smile that conceals feelingA Walk to the Jetty · a short route through a long personal historyA Walk to the Jetty · a bank book, borrowed gestures and a library cardA Walk to the Jetty · familiar words turn from gladness to painA Walk to the Jetty · a final embrace, a red handkerchief and an unsettled berthA Walk to the Jetty · argue through memory, contradiction and an unfinished futureIn the Mountains · affection and judgement in the first meetingIn the Mountains · shelter, social judgement and different kinds of isolationIn the Mountains · a human light and the appeal of an imagined lifeIn the Mountains · hospitality, wounded pride and an excluded friendIn the Mountains · remembered intimacy and an uneasy return to the presentIn the Mountains · a decision to stay and the different meanings of a stoneIn the Mountains · argue through changing judgements and an imperfect connectionMrs. Sen’s · care, domestic skill and a child’s changing view of homeMrs. Sen’s · roads, letters and distances that movement cannot settleMrs. Sen’s · fish, recognition and the limits of dependenceMrs. Sen’s · recorded voices, changing news and an imperfect family pictureMrs. Sen’s · attempts at independence and the accident’s actual sequenceMrs. Sen’s · the key, the final reassurance and a whole-story argumentPromenade · a carefully maintained body and a comforting circuitPromenade · wordless encounters between play and fearPromenade · a delayed departure and an encounter with vulnerabilityPromenade · a changed route and a changed sense of timeThe Plantation · a source of life becomes a private opportunityThe Plantation · a warning spoken, silenced and partly acted onThe Plantation · a crowd’s hunger and a child’s imitation before the blastThe Plantation · a familiar hiding place becomes a night of unanswered waitingThe Plantation · opportunity, loss and an argument across the whole storyThe Paper Menagerie · making life from saved paperThe Paper Menagerie · prejudice changes the value of a toyThe Paper Menagerie · silence, illness and a request left unfinishedThe Paper Menagerie · a letter changes who can tell the storyThe Paper Menagerie · argue across breath, silence and belated understanding
Partial anthology member preparation
- 2029–2030 · Seven Volume 3 story members · partial teaching pathway2029-P3-STORIES · Supplemental StudyForA practice, not a syllabus sectionThe Necklace · desired appearances and the cost of concealmentThe Necklace · an argument about pride, circumstance and delayed knowledgeThe Model Millionaire · an appearance of poverty and a costly kindnessThe Model Millionaire · irony, generosity and a financial happy endingSultana’s Dream · a reversed social order explained through dialogueSultana’s Dream · evaluating satire, scientific power and incomplete freedomThe Interlopers · inherited hatred, changed intentions and approaching wolvesThe Interlopers · feud, reconciliation and the limits of a human claimThe Sacrificial Egg · a remembered night inside an empty presentThe Sacrificial Egg · build an argument about belief, distance and lossSale · artistic excitement, buyers’ praise and an unpaid departureSale · argue about artistic value, need and the force of an uncompleted transactionNew York Day Women · seeing a mother beyond a familiar portraitNew York Day Women · write about intimacy, independent lives and incomplete knowledge
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- 2025–2027 · CourseworkC1-2025 · 6 lessonsRead dramatic action, stage directions and subtextDevelop a focused critical coursework argumentWrite an empathic response within a character’s knowledgeCheck the two different coursework texts for 2025–2027Review a response using all four assessment objectivesApply narrative and drama methods to original practice scenes
50 marks · 38.5%. Critical essay guidance: 800–1200 words, including quotations, excluding references/bibliography. Empathic response: 600–1000 words, on a novel or play rather than a short story. Each assignment focuses on a different eligible work. Centre marking and moderation remain required.
- 2025–2027 · Unseen PoetryP2-2025 · 8 lessonsLocate the poem’s speaker, situation and changing addressExplore poetic images through verbs, modifiers and contrastsConnect sound and rhythm to the poem’s movementTrace line breaks, stanza changes and a poem’s turnPlan an unseen response around the actual questionReview a response using all four assessment objectivesChoose questions and review the paper’s required answersRead complete original poems and test your interpretation
75 minutes · 30 marks · 23%. Two compulsory 15-mark questions on one unseen poem. No prescribed text for this paper. These original practice poems are not full timed mock papers or an authenticated question bank.
- 2025–2027 · Set TextP3-2025 · 197 lessonsBuild a whole-text evidence map and a closed-book recall planLocate the poem’s speaker, situation and changing addressExplore poetic images through verbs, modifiers and contrastsConnect sound and rhythm to the poem’s movementTrace line breaks, stanza changes and a poem’s turnAnalyse viewpoint and test a narrator’s reliabilityRead character through choices, relationships and changeAnalyse an extract and locate its place in the whole workDevelop a whole-text essay from selected momentsRead dramatic action, stage directions and subtextReview a response using all four assessment objectivesChoose questions and review the paper’s required answersApply narrative and drama methods to original practice scenesThe Cherry Orchard · choose an edition and read the whole playThe Cherry Orchard · Act One: homecoming, memory and uneaseThe Cherry Orchard · Act One: the proposal to save the estateThe Cherry Orchard · Act Two: work, freedom and competing futuresThe Cherry Orchard · Act Three: a ball while the auction happens elsewhereThe Cherry Orchard · Act Three: Lopakhin buys the estateThe Cherry Orchard · Act Four: the proposal that is never spokenThe Cherry Orchard · Act Four: the forgotten Fiers and the final silenceThe Cherry Orchard · Ranevskaya: generosity, grief and responsibilityThe Cherry Orchard · Lopakhin: work, class and incomplete transformationThe Cherry Orchard · Gaev: eloquence, dependence and failed reassuranceThe Cherry Orchard · Varya: household labour, keys and constrained choicesThe Cherry Orchard · Anya and Trofimov: education, hope and limitsThe Cherry Orchard · servants, Charlotta and Pischin: whose future counts?The Cherry Orchard · sounds, pauses and visible objectsThe Cherry Orchard · whole-play structure and comedy beside lossThe Cherry Orchard · passage workshop with five real excerptsThe Cherry Orchard · build, write and review a whole-play essayAnowa · a community introduces its own difficult storyAnowa · courtship, parental hopes and competing kinds of freedomAnowa · a chosen marriage and a departure that remains disputedAnowa · care and friction on the trading roadAnowa · the purchase debate and the loss of equal decision-makingAnowa · wealth, idleness and the argument over belongingAnowa · the grand house and the childhood story it cannot containAnowa · children, borrowed family names and the empty chairAnowa · a public separation and an ending that contests blameAnowa · build and test an argument across the whole playCrocodiles · a remembered life shaped through conversationCrocodiles · a farewell understood after it has happenedCrocodiles · a valued home and a departure under pressureCrocodiles · education, violence and a listener asked to be preciseCrocodiles · shelter, gratitude and a child’s work at the samavatCrocodiles · listening to a school from outside its wallsCrocodiles · earnings, friendship and promises tested by survivalCrocodiles · deciding to leave on knowledge that cannot guarantee safetyCrocodiles · care, control and uncertain time in KermanCrocodiles · a building site that becomes a worldCrocodiles · friendship, provisional home and interrupted returnCrocodiles · an injured worker and a watch with a historyCrocodiles · deciding to leave and speaking from two worldsCrocodiles · the mountain’s time and the limits of witnessCrocodiles · the lorry, another boy and an incomplete arrivalCrocodiles · five boys, uncertain knowledge and the seaCrocodiles · a divided boat and a missing companionCrocodiles · being noticed, being helped and looking like a touristCrocodiles · Athens, conditional help and temporary workCrocodiles · a cruel joke and an uncertain departure from GreeceCrocodiles · arriving in Italy and being understoodCrocodiles · finding Payam and learning how to be welcomedCrocodiles · safety, useful time and the return to schoolCrocodiles · telling a life and hearing a mother againCrocodiles · passage, context and a developing responseCrocodiles · an argument across the whole journeyCrocodiles · whose voice, whose knowledge, whose interpretation?Crocodiles · retrieve, correct and prepare for teacher reviewLittle Foxes · a handsome room and the work behind hospitalityLittle Foxes · Birdie’s music and the control of a voiceLittle Foxes · selling a mill through manners and a made-up customLittle Foxes · wishes, percentages and who can make a bargainLittle Foxes · Alexandra’s future discussed in her absenceLittle Foxes · a warning, a blow and a false explanationLittle Foxes · a delayed return and different kinds of concernLittle Foxes · a box, a confession and a father’s changing judgementLittle Foxes · a homecoming without an easy reconciliationLittle Foxes · guarantees, cheap labour and a refusal of profitLittle Foxes · a supposed loan and the refusal to knowLittle Foxes · two levels of action and an irreversible quarrelLittle Foxes · a small party and Birdie’s difficult truthLittle Foxes · watching harm and finding a way awayLittle Foxes · missing bonds and an unfinished new willLittle Foxes · medicine, stillness and the staircaseLittle Foxes · a final bargain beside griefLittle Foxes · Alexandra’s choice and the final silenceLittle Foxes · passage analysis through action and dialogueLittle Foxes · a whole-play argument with counterevidenceLittle Foxes · rooms, objects and competing voicesLittle Foxes · whole-play retrieval and revisionThe Spring · seasonal renewal and the speaker’s frustrated exceptionThe Darkling Thrush · a frail bird’s song and the limits of the listener’s knowledgeThe Storm-Wind · force outside and a sheltered place for small soundsAustralia 1970 · fierce resistance and the human cost of conquestComing · anticipated spring and happiness without full understandingStormcock in Elder · close observation and unexpected sustenanceParrot · displaced beauty, anger and the difficult last wishAt the Parrot House, Taronga Park · colour, performance and the hard beakEel Tail · looking, losing and the limits of namingCetacean · measurement, scale and a successful sightingWatching for Dolphins · shared longing and a sighting that does not happenThe Sea Eats the Land at Home · domestic loss and a living seaYou Will Know When You Get There · a descent into uncertain knowledgeThe Stars Go Over the Lonely Ocean · a boar’s advice and the limits of retreat2025 poetry · close reading from a changing moment2025 poetry · a whole-poem argument with contrary evidence2025 poetry · connections without flattening differences2025 poetry · retrieve all fourteen and revise an unsupported claimThe Doll’s House · a gift becomes a social privilegeThe Doll’s House · borrowed voices and a rumour made cruelThe Doll’s House · a crossed gate and a surviving small delightThe Doll’s House · argue across the whole story and correct an overclaimThe Gold Watch · a smile interrupts the office routineThe Gold Watch · private fear behind a cheerful weekendThe Gold Watch · a retirement presented as appreciationThe Gold Watch · unreliable time and a whole-story argumentA Visit · a silent companion and an uncertain kind of understandingA Visit · an invitation without an explained destinationA Visit · possible messages and a meeting beyond reachA Visit · argue about longing without solving every mysteryA Walk to the Jetty · naming a self inside a room made by othersA Walk to the Jetty · prepared care and a smile that conceals feelingA Walk to the Jetty · a short route through a long personal historyA Walk to the Jetty · a bank book, borrowed gestures and a library cardA Walk to the Jetty · familiar words turn from gladness to painA Walk to the Jetty · a final embrace, a red handkerchief and an unsettled berthA Walk to the Jetty · argue through memory, contradiction and an unfinished futureIn the Mountains · affection and judgement in the first meetingIn the Mountains · shelter, social judgement and different kinds of isolationIn the Mountains · a human light and the appeal of an imagined lifeIn the Mountains · hospitality, wounded pride and an excluded friendIn the Mountains · remembered intimacy and an uneasy return to the presentIn the Mountains · a decision to stay and the different meanings of a stoneIn the Mountains · argue through changing judgements and an imperfect connectionMrs. Sen’s · care, domestic skill and a child’s changing view of homeMrs. Sen’s · roads, letters and distances that movement cannot settleMrs. Sen’s · fish, recognition and the limits of dependenceMrs. Sen’s · recorded voices, changing news and an imperfect family pictureMrs. Sen’s · attempts at independence and the accident’s actual sequenceMrs. Sen’s · the key, the final reassurance and a whole-story argumentPromenade · a carefully maintained body and a comforting circuitPromenade · wordless encounters between play and fearPromenade · a delayed departure and an encounter with vulnerabilityPromenade · a changed route and a changed sense of timeThe Plantation · a source of life becomes a private opportunityThe Plantation · a warning spoken, silenced and partly acted onThe Plantation · a crowd’s hunger and a child’s imitation before the blastThe Plantation · a familiar hiding place becomes a night of unanswered waitingThe Plantation · opportunity, loss and an argument across the whole storyThe Paper Menagerie · making life from saved paperThe Paper Menagerie · prejudice changes the value of a toyThe Paper Menagerie · silence, illness and a request left unfinishedThe Paper Menagerie · a letter changes who can tell the storyThe Paper Menagerie · argue across breath, silence and belated understanding2026–2027 poetry · read the full selection and build evidenceChildhood · perception, age and a changed understandingBecause I Could Not Stop for Death · courtesy, correction and timeOne Art · a controlled form under emotional pressureSong: Tears, Idle Tears · memory made both fresh and painfulMy Parents · protection, fear and a desire to connectFor Heidi with Blue Hair · authority, humour and hidden griefPraise Song for my Mother · nourishment, address and freedomFollower · skilled labour and the reversal of dependenceThe Trees are Down · sound, memory and a protest against lossThe Trees · apparent renewal and recorded ageTime’s Fool · discarded things and remembered sufficiencyA Quoi Bon Dire · public time and a private continuity of loveMeeting at Night · desire through movement, senses and quietBecause I Liked You Better · restraint, promises and the final address2026–2027 poetry · close-reading workshop with complete public-domain poems2026–2027 poetry · compare methods without flattening differences2026–2027 poetry · recall all fourteen and review the evidenceTen-story pathway · read the full selection and build an evidence recordDeath of the Laird’s Jock · honour, care and a framed tragedyDeath of the Laird’s Jock · argue about heroism and its costGeorge Silverman’s Explanation · need, shame and being misunderstoodGeorge Silverman’s Explanation · self-sacrifice, satire and a qualified judgementThe Nightingale and the Rose · art, sacrifice and unequal knowledgeThe Nightingale and the Rose · test ideals against the whole endingThe Copper Beeches · performance, observation and a corrected inferenceThe Copper Beeches · argue about agency, authority and hidden dangerA Story of a Wedding Tour · accidental separation and chosen freedomA Story of a Wedding Tour · argue about freedom, care and narrative judgementThe Shrinking Shoe · a fairy-tale promise tested by timeThe Shrinking Shoe · argue about wealth, ideals and renewalGabriel-Ernest · warnings, social labels and an assumed rescueGabriel-Ernest · argue about satire, suspense and public beliefA Warning to the Curious · layered testimony and failed reassuranceA Warning to the Curious · argue about curiosity, punishment and testimonyIndian Summer of an Uncle · Bertie’s voice and Jeeves’s concealed planIndian Summer of an Uncle · argue about class, kindness and comic controlLappin and Lapinova · a shared world and its withdrawalLappin and Lapinova · argue about intimacy, identity and belongingTen-story pathway · analyse a passage in whole-story contextTen-story pathway · write a question-led whole-story argumentTen-story pathway · recall every member and revise a specific gap
90 minutes · 50 marks · 38.5%. One Section A extract and one Section B essay, 25 marks each. Both may use the same studied text or different studied texts. Poetry, prose and drama options depend on the year. Closed book. Anowa has a whole-play sequence for 2025–2026. Crocodiles has twenty-eight lessons through all six chapters, with passage, whole-book argument, voice and review workshops; its three eligible complete book options link the pathway. Little Foxes has twenty-two lessons through all three acts and four whole-play workshops for 2027 only; its complete option links that sequence. Qualified assessment and full timed calibration remain unfinished. The Cherry Orchard and all fourteen 2026–2027 Volume 1 poems have teaching sequences. All ten members have reading and writing lessons for the 2026–2027 Volume 2 story option, with four full-selection workshops. All fourteen members of the historical 2025 Volume 2 poetry option have teaching, with four whole-selection workshops and a linked complete option. The Doll’s House, The Gold Watch, A Visit and Promenade have four lessons each, A Walk to the Jetty and In the Mountains have seven each, Mrs. Sen’s has six, and The Plantation and The Paper Menagerie have five each in the historical 2025 partial-member pathway. Complete source readings support the nine taught members; Words and the complete 2025 selection remain unfinished. Other selected works, teacher marking and calibrated papers remain unfinished.
- 2028–2030 · Drama courseworkC1-2028 · 6 lessonsRead dramatic action, stage directions and subtextDevelop a focused critical coursework argumentWrite an empathic response within a character’s knowledgeChoose drama coursework under the 2028–2030 rulesReview a response using all four assessment objectivesApply narrative and drama methods to original practice scenes
50 marks · approximately one-third. Critical essay approximately 1000 words including quotations; empathic essay approximately 800. One or two complete suitable plays are permitted. Both essays must be electronic with the full title; not abridged works. These short exercises are not coursework source texts or centre-approved submissions.
- 2028–2030 · Prescribed and unseen poetryP2-2028 · 22 lessonsLocate the poem’s speaker, situation and changing addressExplore poetic images through verbs, modifiers and contrastsConnect sound and rhythm to the poem’s movementTrace line breaks, stanza changes and a poem’s turnPlan an unseen response around the actual questionPrepare all 15 prescribed poems for the 2028–2030 poetry paperReview a response using all four assessment objectivesChoose questions and review the paper’s required answersRead complete original poems and test your interpretationThe Panther · confined movement and an image that cannot remainA Blessing · tactile encounter and a conditional blossomingToroa: Albatross · injured flight, sculptural form and welcomeFrog · bodily invitation and a reversed question#ExtinctionRebellion · a living communications network and unfinished resistanceThe Sun Wanders, Searching for Shade · fertile buildings and a displaced living worldFair Weather · a wish for turbulent love and its wreckageAn Old Colonial Building · uncertain reconstruction and moving reflectionsMap Store · imagined origins, distant homes and an arriving warLeaving Fingerprints · anonymous histories written through living groundwhen faces called flowers float out of the ground · giving, spring and intimate interruptionsCaptain of the Lighthouse · a shared sea-game and a solitary returnCheck the exact exam-year reading selection and edition
90 minutes · 50 marks · approximately one-third. One prescribed-poem question and one unseen-poem question, 25 marks each. All 15 Volume 3 poems are compulsory preparation. Twelve poems have teaching and practice; the Dutt and Kingsley excerpts, Cissoko’s exact translation and full-selection workshops remain unfinished, so the three complete poetry rows remain content gaps. Poems are printed, and candidates do not bring the set texts.
- 2028–2030 · Set Text (Prose)P3-2028 · 46 lessonsBuild a whole-text evidence map and a closed-book recall planAnalyse viewpoint and test a narrator’s reliabilityRead character through choices, relationships and changeAnalyse an extract and locate its place in the whole workDevelop a whole-text essay from selected momentsReview a response using all four assessment objectivesChoose questions and review the paper’s required answersApply narrative and drama methods to original practice scenesTen-story pathway · read the full selection and build an evidence recordDeath of the Laird’s Jock · honour, care and a framed tragedyDeath of the Laird’s Jock · argue about heroism and its costGeorge Silverman’s Explanation · need, shame and being misunderstoodGeorge Silverman’s Explanation · self-sacrifice, satire and a qualified judgementThe Nightingale and the Rose · art, sacrifice and unequal knowledgeThe Nightingale and the Rose · test ideals against the whole endingThe Copper Beeches · performance, observation and a corrected inferenceThe Copper Beeches · argue about agency, authority and hidden dangerA Story of a Wedding Tour · accidental separation and chosen freedomA Story of a Wedding Tour · argue about freedom, care and narrative judgementThe Shrinking Shoe · a fairy-tale promise tested by timeThe Shrinking Shoe · argue about wealth, ideals and renewalGabriel-Ernest · warnings, social labels and an assumed rescueGabriel-Ernest · argue about satire, suspense and public beliefA Warning to the Curious · layered testimony and failed reassuranceA Warning to the Curious · argue about curiosity, punishment and testimonyIndian Summer of an Uncle · Bertie’s voice and Jeeves’s concealed planIndian Summer of an Uncle · argue about class, kindness and comic controlLappin and Lapinova · a shared world and its withdrawalLappin and Lapinova · argue about intimacy, identity and belongingTen-story pathway · analyse a passage in whole-story contextTen-story pathway · write a question-led whole-story argumentTen-story pathway · recall every member and revise a specific gapThe Necklace · desired appearances and the cost of concealmentThe Necklace · an argument about pride, circumstance and delayed knowledgeThe Model Millionaire · an appearance of poverty and a costly kindnessThe Model Millionaire · irony, generosity and a financial happy endingSultana’s Dream · a reversed social order explained through dialogueSultana’s Dream · evaluating satire, scientific power and incomplete freedomThe Interlopers · inherited hatred, changed intentions and approaching wolvesThe Interlopers · feud, reconciliation and the limits of a human claimThe Sacrificial Egg · a remembered night inside an empty presentThe Sacrificial Egg · build an argument about belief, distance and lossSale · artistic excitement, buyers’ praise and an unpaid departureSale · argue about artistic value, need and the force of an uncompleted transactionNew York Day Women · seeing a mother beyond a familiar portraitNew York Day Women · write about intimacy, independent lives and incomplete knowledge
90 minutes · 50 marks · approximately one-third. One Section A extract and one Section B essay, 25 marks each, on one or two studied prose options. Prepare all ten stories if using the anthology option. Closed book. The 2028 story option has reading and writing lessons for all ten members and four full-selection workshops. The novel options still need substantive teaching. Seven members of the different 2029–2030 Volume 3 selection have paired reading and writing lessons; three members and full-selection workshops remain unfinished, so the complete selection entries remain content gaps.
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Choose the correct 0408 route before reading
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Select precise evidence and explain what it supports
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Use context to deepen a reading without replacing the text
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Move from a language choice to a defensible effect
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Explain how form and sequence shape meaning
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Make a personal response accountable to the text
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Build an argument from claims, evidence and explanation
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Build a whole-text evidence map and a closed-book recall plan
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Locate the poem’s speaker, situation and changing address
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Explore poetic images through verbs, modifiers and contrasts
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Connect sound and rhythm to the poem’s movement
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Trace line breaks, stanza changes and a poem’s turn
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Plan an unseen response around the actual question
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Prepare all 15 prescribed poems for the 2028–2030 poetry paper
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Analyse viewpoint and test a narrator’s reliability
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Read character through choices, relationships and change
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Analyse an extract and locate its place in the whole work
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Develop a whole-text essay from selected moments
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Read dramatic action, stage directions and subtext
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Develop a focused critical coursework argument
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Write an empathic response within a character’s knowledge
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Check the two different coursework texts for 2025–2027
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Choose drama coursework under the 2028–2030 rules
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Review a response using all four assessment objectives
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Choose questions and review the paper’s required answers
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Check the exact exam-year reading selection and edition
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Read complete original poems and test your interpretation
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The Cherry Orchard · choose an edition and read the whole play
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The Cherry Orchard · Act One: homecoming, memory and unease
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The Cherry Orchard · Act One: the proposal to save the estate
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The Cherry Orchard · Act Two: work, freedom and competing futures
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The Cherry Orchard · Act Three: a ball while the auction happens elsewhere
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The Cherry Orchard · Act Three: Lopakhin buys the estate
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The Cherry Orchard · Act Four: the proposal that is never spoken
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The Cherry Orchard · Act Four: the forgotten Fiers and the final silence
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The Cherry Orchard · Ranevskaya: generosity, grief and responsibility
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The Cherry Orchard · Lopakhin: work, class and incomplete transformation
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The Cherry Orchard · Gaev: eloquence, dependence and failed reassurance
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The Cherry Orchard · Varya: household labour, keys and constrained choices
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The Cherry Orchard · Anya and Trofimov: education, hope and limits
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The Cherry Orchard · servants, Charlotta and Pischin: whose future counts?
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The Cherry Orchard · sounds, pauses and visible objects
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The Cherry Orchard · whole-play structure and comedy beside loss
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The Cherry Orchard · passage workshop with five real excerpts
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The Cherry Orchard · build, write and review a whole-play essay
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Anowa · a community introduces its own difficult story
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Anowa · courtship, parental hopes and competing kinds of freedom
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Anowa · a chosen marriage and a departure that remains disputed
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Anowa · care and friction on the trading road
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Anowa · the purchase debate and the loss of equal decision-making
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Anowa · wealth, idleness and the argument over belonging
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Anowa · the grand house and the childhood story it cannot contain
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Anowa · children, borrowed family names and the empty chair
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Anowa · a public separation and an ending that contests blame
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Anowa · build and test an argument across the whole play
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Crocodiles · a remembered life shaped through conversation
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Crocodiles · a farewell understood after it has happened
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Crocodiles · a valued home and a departure under pressure
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Crocodiles · education, violence and a listener asked to be precise
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Crocodiles · shelter, gratitude and a child’s work at the samavat
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Crocodiles · listening to a school from outside its walls
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Crocodiles · earnings, friendship and promises tested by survival
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Crocodiles · deciding to leave on knowledge that cannot guarantee safety
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Crocodiles · care, control and uncertain time in Kerman
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Crocodiles · a building site that becomes a world
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Crocodiles · friendship, provisional home and interrupted return
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Crocodiles · an injured worker and a watch with a history
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Crocodiles · deciding to leave and speaking from two worlds
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Crocodiles · the mountain’s time and the limits of witness
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Crocodiles · the lorry, another boy and an incomplete arrival
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Crocodiles · five boys, uncertain knowledge and the sea
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Crocodiles · a divided boat and a missing companion
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Crocodiles · being noticed, being helped and looking like a tourist
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Crocodiles · Athens, conditional help and temporary work
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Crocodiles · a cruel joke and an uncertain departure from Greece
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Crocodiles · arriving in Italy and being understood
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Crocodiles · finding Payam and learning how to be welcomed
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Crocodiles · safety, useful time and the return to school
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Crocodiles · telling a life and hearing a mother again
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Crocodiles · passage, context and a developing response
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Crocodiles · an argument across the whole journey
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Crocodiles · whose voice, whose knowledge, whose interpretation?
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Crocodiles · retrieve, correct and prepare for teacher review
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Little Foxes · a handsome room and the work behind hospitality
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Little Foxes · Birdie’s music and the control of a voice
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Little Foxes · selling a mill through manners and a made-up custom
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Little Foxes · wishes, percentages and who can make a bargain
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Little Foxes · Alexandra’s future discussed in her absence
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Little Foxes · a warning, a blow and a false explanation
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Little Foxes · a delayed return and different kinds of concern
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Little Foxes · a box, a confession and a father’s changing judgement
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Little Foxes · a homecoming without an easy reconciliation
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Little Foxes · guarantees, cheap labour and a refusal of profit
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Little Foxes · a supposed loan and the refusal to know
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Little Foxes · two levels of action and an irreversible quarrel
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Little Foxes · a small party and Birdie’s difficult truth
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Little Foxes · watching harm and finding a way away
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Little Foxes · missing bonds and an unfinished new will
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Little Foxes · medicine, stillness and the staircase
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Little Foxes · a final bargain beside grief
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Little Foxes · Alexandra’s choice and the final silence
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Little Foxes · passage analysis through action and dialogue
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Little Foxes · a whole-play argument with counterevidence
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Little Foxes · rooms, objects and competing voices
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Little Foxes · whole-play retrieval and revision
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The Spring · seasonal renewal and the speaker’s frustrated exception
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The Darkling Thrush · a frail bird’s song and the limits of the listener’s knowledge
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The Storm-Wind · force outside and a sheltered place for small sounds
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Australia 1970 · fierce resistance and the human cost of conquest
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Coming · anticipated spring and happiness without full understanding
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Stormcock in Elder · close observation and unexpected sustenance
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Parrot · displaced beauty, anger and the difficult last wish
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At the Parrot House, Taronga Park · colour, performance and the hard beak
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Eel Tail · looking, losing and the limits of naming
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Cetacean · measurement, scale and a successful sighting
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Watching for Dolphins · shared longing and a sighting that does not happen
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The Sea Eats the Land at Home · domestic loss and a living sea
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You Will Know When You Get There · a descent into uncertain knowledge
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The Stars Go Over the Lonely Ocean · a boar’s advice and the limits of retreat
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2025 poetry · close reading from a changing moment
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2025 poetry · a whole-poem argument with contrary evidence
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2025 poetry · connections without flattening differences
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2025 poetry · retrieve all fourteen and revise an unsupported claim
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The Doll’s House · a gift becomes a social privilege
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The Doll’s House · borrowed voices and a rumour made cruel
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The Doll’s House · a crossed gate and a surviving small delight
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The Doll’s House · argue across the whole story and correct an overclaim
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The Gold Watch · a smile interrupts the office routine
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The Gold Watch · private fear behind a cheerful weekend
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The Gold Watch · a retirement presented as appreciation
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The Gold Watch · unreliable time and a whole-story argument
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A Visit · a silent companion and an uncertain kind of understanding
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A Visit · an invitation without an explained destination
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A Visit · possible messages and a meeting beyond reach
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A Visit · argue about longing without solving every mystery
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A Walk to the Jetty · naming a self inside a room made by others
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A Walk to the Jetty · prepared care and a smile that conceals feeling
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A Walk to the Jetty · a short route through a long personal history
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A Walk to the Jetty · a bank book, borrowed gestures and a library card
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A Walk to the Jetty · familiar words turn from gladness to pain
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A Walk to the Jetty · a final embrace, a red handkerchief and an unsettled berth
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A Walk to the Jetty · argue through memory, contradiction and an unfinished future
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In the Mountains · affection and judgement in the first meeting
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In the Mountains · shelter, social judgement and different kinds of isolation
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In the Mountains · a human light and the appeal of an imagined life
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In the Mountains · hospitality, wounded pride and an excluded friend
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In the Mountains · remembered intimacy and an uneasy return to the present
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In the Mountains · a decision to stay and the different meanings of a stone
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In the Mountains · argue through changing judgements and an imperfect connection
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Mrs. Sen’s · care, domestic skill and a child’s changing view of home
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Mrs. Sen’s · roads, letters and distances that movement cannot settle
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Mrs. Sen’s · fish, recognition and the limits of dependence
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Mrs. Sen’s · recorded voices, changing news and an imperfect family picture
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Mrs. Sen’s · attempts at independence and the accident’s actual sequence
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Mrs. Sen’s · the key, the final reassurance and a whole-story argument
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Promenade · a carefully maintained body and a comforting circuit
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Promenade · wordless encounters between play and fear
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Promenade · a delayed departure and an encounter with vulnerability
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Promenade · a changed route and a changed sense of time
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The Plantation · a source of life becomes a private opportunity
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The Plantation · a warning spoken, silenced and partly acted on
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The Plantation · a crowd’s hunger and a child’s imitation before the blast
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The Plantation · a familiar hiding place becomes a night of unanswered waiting
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The Plantation · opportunity, loss and an argument across the whole story
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The Paper Menagerie · making life from saved paper
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The Paper Menagerie · prejudice changes the value of a toy
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The Paper Menagerie · silence, illness and a request left unfinished
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The Paper Menagerie · a letter changes who can tell the story
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The Paper Menagerie · argue across breath, silence and belated understanding
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2026–2027 poetry · read the full selection and build evidence
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Childhood · perception, age and a changed understanding
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Because I Could Not Stop for Death · courtesy, correction and time
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One Art · a controlled form under emotional pressure
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Song: Tears, Idle Tears · memory made both fresh and painful
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My Parents · protection, fear and a desire to connect
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For Heidi with Blue Hair · authority, humour and hidden grief
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Praise Song for my Mother · nourishment, address and freedom
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Follower · skilled labour and the reversal of dependence
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The Trees are Down · sound, memory and a protest against loss
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The Trees · apparent renewal and recorded age
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Time’s Fool · discarded things and remembered sufficiency
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A Quoi Bon Dire · public time and a private continuity of love
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Meeting at Night · desire through movement, senses and quiet
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Because I Liked You Better · restraint, promises and the final address
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2026–2027 poetry · close-reading workshop with complete public-domain poems
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2026–2027 poetry · compare methods without flattening differences
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2026–2027 poetry · recall all fourteen and review the evidence
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Ten-story pathway · read the full selection and build an evidence record
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Death of the Laird’s Jock · honour, care and a framed tragedy
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Death of the Laird’s Jock · argue about heroism and its cost
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George Silverman’s Explanation · need, shame and being misunderstood
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George Silverman’s Explanation · self-sacrifice, satire and a qualified judgement
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The Nightingale and the Rose · art, sacrifice and unequal knowledge
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The Nightingale and the Rose · test ideals against the whole ending
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The Copper Beeches · performance, observation and a corrected inference
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The Copper Beeches · argue about agency, authority and hidden danger
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A Story of a Wedding Tour · accidental separation and chosen freedom
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A Story of a Wedding Tour · argue about freedom, care and narrative judgement
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The Shrinking Shoe · a fairy-tale promise tested by time
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The Shrinking Shoe · argue about wealth, ideals and renewal
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Gabriel-Ernest · warnings, social labels and an assumed rescue
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Gabriel-Ernest · argue about satire, suspense and public belief
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A Warning to the Curious · layered testimony and failed reassurance
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A Warning to the Curious · argue about curiosity, punishment and testimony
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Indian Summer of an Uncle · Bertie’s voice and Jeeves’s concealed plan
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Indian Summer of an Uncle · argue about class, kindness and comic control
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Lappin and Lapinova · a shared world and its withdrawal
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Lappin and Lapinova · argue about intimacy, identity and belonging
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Ten-story pathway · analyse a passage in whole-story context
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Ten-story pathway · write a question-led whole-story argument
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Ten-story pathway · recall every member and revise a specific gap
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The Panther · confined movement and an image that cannot remain
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A Blessing · tactile encounter and a conditional blossoming
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Toroa: Albatross · injured flight, sculptural form and welcome
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Frog · bodily invitation and a reversed question
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#ExtinctionRebellion · a living communications network and unfinished resistance
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The Sun Wanders, Searching for Shade · fertile buildings and a displaced living world
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Fair Weather · a wish for turbulent love and its wreckage
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An Old Colonial Building · uncertain reconstruction and moving reflections
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Map Store · imagined origins, distant homes and an arriving war
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Leaving Fingerprints · anonymous histories written through living ground
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when faces called flowers float out of the ground · giving, spring and intimate interruptions
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Captain of the Lighthouse · a shared sea-game and a solitary return
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The Necklace · desired appearances and the cost of concealment
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The Necklace · an argument about pride, circumstance and delayed knowledge
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The Model Millionaire · an appearance of poverty and a costly kindness
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The Model Millionaire · irony, generosity and a financial happy ending
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Sultana’s Dream · a reversed social order explained through dialogue
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Sultana’s Dream · evaluating satire, scientific power and incomplete freedom
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The Interlopers · inherited hatred, changed intentions and approaching wolves
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The Interlopers · feud, reconciliation and the limits of a human claim
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The Sacrificial Egg · a remembered night inside an empty present
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The Sacrificial Egg · build an argument about belief, distance and loss
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Sale · artistic excitement, buyers’ praise and an unpaid departure
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Sale · argue about artistic value, need and the force of an uncompleted transaction
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New York Day Women · seeing a mother beyond a familiar portrait
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New York Day Women · write about intimacy, independent lives and incomplete knowledge
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