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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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Remains by Simon Armitage - Revision 1 - GCSE English Literature - BBC Bitesize

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

William Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' Act 1 Scene 1: Translation (1 of 60)

'Ozymandias' reading

Book recommendations Year 8

BBC Bitesize - GCSE English Literature - Macbeth

Animal Farm, In Our Time - BBC Radio 4

poetryarchive.org | Poetry archive

Animal Farm revision from Course Hero

English

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Parents Evening :: Year 10

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Teacher of English - (Maternity cover - Possible TLR available)

48 Hour Scares

January 2026 Examinations

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