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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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The Divine Right of Kings

BBC - GCSE Bitesize - Frankenstein

William Blake

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

English

'Remains' - Armitage's reading of the poem

Alexander Gordon Smith

Animal Farm revision from Course Hero

Year 7 Childhood and Adventure - Week 3: reasons why reading is important

Academic challenge and independence; attainment

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Learnit Physics: Formula Practice

Todorov's narrative theory

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