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Classic Literature Reading Challege

Read a classic over the holidays.

 

1)     Improve your vocabulary

2)     Increase your knowledge

3)     Read something of value

4)     Understand history and cultural context

5)     Enrich your own life

6)     Challenge your brain

7)     Knowledge is power

8)     Share in the human experience

Documents

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English

'Remains' - Armitage's reading of the poem

BBC Bitesize - GCSE English Literature - Macbeth

Animal Farm revision from Course Hero

Call You & Yours: What Inspired You to Read?, You and Yours - BBC Radio 4

'London' analysis

HARTISMERE PLAY READING GROUP- Y7, 8 & 9

The Divine Right of Kings

Animal Farm, In Our Time - BBC Radio 4

Simon Armitage - 'Remains'

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Duke of Edinburgh's Award Activity Logs

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8S1 25/02/26

Chicago tickets now on sale

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English Literature English Challenge Literature Reading Hartismere Link GCSE BBC GCSE English Autumn Term March George Orwell Competition Drama A Level Cultural Shakespeare Heaney Duke Of Edinburgh Frankenstein

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