Teaching and Learning resources
Repetition: Autumn
Ali Smith's Booker prize nominated novel, Autumn, has been described by the New York Times in this article as the "first great Brexit novel", although it is a lot more varied and interesting than that...
Teaching and Learning resources
Satire: The Sympathizer
Focus on Satire, with an extract from The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen Students need experience with texts that employ satire, irony and humour, not only because such texts can be very enjoyable to...
Teaching and Learning resources
What is a Story?
This activity comes from George Saunders’ wonderful book about storytelling, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, in which he presents and explores works from four Russian masters of storytelling - Chekhov,...
Teaching and Learning resources
Lesson ideas
Lessons on different literary concepts, forms and techniques In this section of the site you will find a series of lessons for students on different literary concepts, forms and techniques. Each page...
The Literature course
Teaching intertextuality
'Any text is the absorption and transformation of another.' It is generally recognised that the term intertextuality was coined by the Bulgarian-French writer, philosopher and psychoanalyst, Julia Kristeva...
Teaching and Learning resources
An Introduction to Reader Response/TOK Lesson Plan
The following lesson can be used as a way to introduce a core concept of the course - that reading as an activity involves a significantly more complex process than simply decoding 'what the author had...
Course Assessment
HL Essay exemplar 17: Maya Angelou's poetry
This HL essay is a response to Maya Angelou's poetry. When writing about shorter texts such as short stories or poems, the guide does not specify how many students should write about (sensible given that...
The Literature course
Course Requirements Tracker
Keeping track of the course requirements One challenge with designing your course is making sure that all the requirements are met; the tool on this page is designed to help you check your course by tracking...
The Literature course
Example Course Outline (SL)
Course Outline 2 for Standard Level English Literature This Standard Level course design offers a more straight-forward approach than the HL sample. It is built around the areas of exploration, with...
The Literature course
Example Course Outline (HL)
Course Outline 1 for Higher Level English Literature Rather than just adopting one organizing principle - concepts or areas of exploration, for example - this approach seeks to integrate and interleave...