English

Here is a list of all our GCSE English learning content and on demand video lessons for English Literature for the following topics:

• 'A Christmas Carol'
• 'Frankenstein'
• 'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'
• 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'
• 'Great Expectations'
• 'Pride and Prejudice'
• 'Macbeth'
• 'Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of Four'
• 'Hamlet'
• 'Much Ado About Nothing'
• 'Romeo and Juliet' 

Here are the GCSE English texts, (drama, poetry and prose) available in EDClass. Some are set reading texts for GCSE English Literature, some may form part of a learner's wider reading experience:

Shakespeare lessons available

• 'Macbeth'
• 'Romeo and Juliet'
• 'Much Ado About Nothing' 
• 'Othello' 
• 'Hamlet' 

The GCSE English19th-Century Novel

• Robert Louis Stevenson - 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'
• Charles Dickens - 'A Christmas Carol'
• Charles Dickens - 'Great Expectations'
• Mary Shelley - 'Frankenstein'
• Jane Austen - 'Pride and Prejudice'

GCSE English Language

EDClass houses a vast portfolio of learning content for GCSE English Language, covering the requirements of all the British Examination bodies. The resources cater for: 

• Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing
• Fiction and Imaginative Writing
• Writers' Viewpoints and Perspectives
• Non-Fiction and Transactional Writing
• Spoken Language

Our extensive content and reading list for GCSE English that is available:

• 'A Christmas Carol'
• 'An Inspector Calls'
• 'Animal Farm'
• 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid'
• 'DNA'
• 'Felicia's Journey'
• 'Gangsta Rap'
• 'Great Expectations'
• 'Hamlet'
• 'Holes'
• 'Kindertransport'
• 'Macbeth'
• 'Much Ado About Nothing'
• 'Of Mice and Men'
• 'Othello'
• 'Pride and Prejudice'
• 'Rani and Sukh'
• 'Romeo and Juliet'
• 'Skellig'
• 'Stone Cold'
• 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas'
• 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'
• 'The Hound of The Baskervilles'
• 'The Switch'
• 'The Tomcat'
• 'To Kill A Mockingbird'

Modern Texts and Poetry for GCSE English

Available

• JB Priestley - 'An Inspector Calls'
• Dennis Kelly - 'DNA'
• Simon Stephens - 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'
• George Orwell - 'Animal Farm'

PLUS a comprehensive Poetry Anthology range 

Our GCSE English Poetry Reading List Includes:

• Love and Relationships: 'When We Two Parted'
• Love and Relationships: 'Love's Philosophy'
• Love and Relationships: 'Porphyria's Lover'
• Love and Relationships: Sonnet 29 'I think of thee!'
• Love and Relationships: 'Neutral Tones'
• Love and Relationships: 'Letters from Yorkshire'
• Love and Relationships: 'The Farmer's Bride'
• Love and Relationships: 'Walking Away'
• Love and Relationships: 'Eden Rock'
• Love and Relationships: 'Follower'
• Love and Relationships: 'Mother, any distance'
• Love and Relationships: 'Before You Were Mine'
• Love and Relationships: 'Winter Swans'
• Love and Relationships: 'Singh Song!'
• Love and Relationships: 'Climbing my Grandfather'
• Power and Conflict: 'Ozymandias'
• Power and Conflict: 'London'
• Power and Conflict: Extract from 'The Prelude'
• Power and Conflict: 'My Last Duchess'
• Power and Conflict: 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'
• Power and Conflict: 'Exposure'
• Power and Conflict: 'Storm on the Island'
• Power and Conflict: 'Bayonet Charge'
• Power and Conflict: 'Remains'
• Power and Conflict: 'Poppies'
• Power and Conflict: 'War Photographer'
• Power and Conflict: 'Tissue'
• Power and Conflict: 'The Emigrée'
• Power and Conflict: 'Checking Out Me History'
• Power and Conflict: 'Kamikaze'
• Relationships: 'Sonnet 43'
• Relationships: 'Nettles'
• Relationships: 'The Manhunt'
• Conflict: 'The Man He Killed'
• Conflict: 'Belfast Confetti'
• Conflict: 'Flag' 

• Exploring Poetry: 'Blessing'
• Exploring Poetry: 'Sonnet 116'
• Exploring Poetry: 'Ghazal'
• Exploring Poetry: 'Havisham'
• Exploring Poetry:  Comparing How Conflict is Presented in 'The Man He Killed' and 'Flag'
• Exploring Poetry: 'Born Yesterday'
• Exploring Poetry: Comparing 'Born Yesterday' and 'In Paris With You'
• Exploring Poetry: 'Brothers'
• Exploring Poetry: Comparing 'Sister Maude' and 'Brothers'
• Exploring Poetry: Comparing 'In Paris with You' and 'Sonnet 116'
• Exploring Poetry: Comparing 'Manhunt' and 'Sonnet 43'
• Exploring Poetry: 'Praise Song for my Mother'
• Exploring Poetry: 'Quickdraw'
• Exploring Poetry: Comparing 'Quickdraw' and 'Sonnet 43' 
• Exploring Poetry: 'Sister Maude'
• Exploring Poetry: Comparing 'Ghazal' and 'To His Coy Mistress'
• Exploring Poetry: 'Harmonium'
• Exploring Poetry: Comparing 'Harmonium' and 'Nettles'
• Exploring Poetry: 'Hour'
• Exploring Poetry: 'In Paris With You'
• Exploring Poetry: 'Sonnet 116' and 'Hour'
• Exploring Poetry: Comparing 'Sonnet 116' and 'Sonnet 43' 
• Exploring Poetry: Comparing 'The Farmer's Bride' and 'The Manhunt'
• Exploring Poetry: 'To His Coy Mistress'
• Exploring Poetry: Comparing 'To His Coy Mistress' and 'Hour' 
• Exploring Poetry: 'Praise Song for My Mother' and 'Nettles' 
• Poetry Across Time: Comparing 'At the Border' and 'Out of the Blue'
• Poetry Across Time: Compare 'Hawk Roosting' and 'Bayonet Charge'
• Poetry Across Time: Compare How Ideas are Presented in 'The Falling Leaves' and 'Poppies'
• Poetry Across Time: Compare 'next to of course god america i' and 'Flag'
• Poetry Across Time: Compare the Attitudes to Death in War in 'Futility' and 'The Falling Leaves'
• Poetry Across Time: Compare the Effects of Repeated Form in 'The Right Word' and 'Flag'
• Poetry Across Time: Compare the Effects of War on  City Life as Presented  in 'The Yellow Palm' and 'Belfast Confetti'
• Poetry Across Time: How to Compare Two Poems in the Examination
• Approaching a Poem: 'Les Grands Seigneurs'

We have many more lessons covering many more poems which lend themselves to practising for the 'Unseen' components of GCSE Literature courses.