Selected student pages
General Resources
Summer Reading List for Teachers - 2024
Summer holidays for teachers are about the three 'R's: rest, relaxation and reading! Here are some picks from the novels I really enjoyed reading during the 2023 - 24 school year. I'd love to hear your...
Teaching Units
Text to Go: The Fall of the House of Usher
"The Fall of the House of Usher" is a short story by Edgar Allen Poe, first published in 1839. The short story is a work of Gothic fiction and includes themes of madness, family, isolation, and metaphysical identities....
Teaching Units
Text to Go: Greta Thunberg Speech
Here's the full transcript of Thunberg's speech, beginning with her response to a question about the message she has for world leaders. "My message is that we'll be watching you. "This is all wrong....
Teaching Units
Advertising
This unit introduces students to some of the key techniques of advertising. During the unit, students analyse a variety of print adverts to examine the role that advertising design features play in communication....
Teaching Units
Young Writers of the Holocaust - GRASPS Summative Assessment
This is a GRASPS summative assessment for the Young Writers of the Holocaust unit. Students can complete the assessment online. ...
Teaching Units
Text to Go: Self-Discipline by Will Smith
Will Smith's motivational speech about self-discipline. Marines have a saying everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die the center of bringing any dream into fruition is self-discipline....
Teaching Units
Text to Go - The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe
The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe is a poem centred around an unnamed narrator's journey into madness after realizing he will never forget his lost Lenore. Poe uses symbols such as a talking raven, a bust...
Teaching Units
Text to Go: Greta Thunberg Speech
Here's the full transcript of Thunberg's speech, beginning with her response to a question about the message she has for world leaders. "My message is that we'll be watching you. "This is all wrong....
Start Here: Students
How to Use the Site Free
Welcome to your one-stop hub! This page is your roadmap to explore all the resources we offer. Whether you're reading and studying a text or texts or gearing up to complete an assessment, we've got you...
General Resources
World Literature Reading Lists Free
On these page there is a series of World Literature reading lists. The lists focus on texts written by authors from countries around the globe and include novels, graphic novels, memoirs, works of non-fiction,...
Teaching Units
Text to Go: The Black Cat
The Black Cat is one of the most famous of Edgar Allen Poe's short stories. Written in 1843, the story is told in the first person by a murderer sentenced to death who, even knowing he is not believed,...
Teaching Units
Text to Go: HeForShe - Emma Watson
In 2014, Emma Watson was named a U.N. Women Goodwill Ambassador by the United Nations to serve as an advocate for U.N. women's gender equality campaign known as HeForShe. This programme is dedicated to...