English Literature
Learn the quotations. Know the texts. Three minutes a day of quotation, plot, character and context practice for the GCSE English Literature set texts, so the closed-book exam starts from what students actually remember.
AQA · Edexcel · OCR · Eduqas
~615k
GCSE entries / year
English Literature is one of the biggest GCSEs in England, and in a closed-book exam the quotations and the context have to be in the student's head. Short, frequent recall is how they get there, and it is exactly what a daily habit builds.
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Exam boards
AQA (8702), Edexcel (1ET0), OCR (J352) and Eduqas (C720). Cards are tagged by board and teachers tick the set texts their class studies, so pupils only practise those. Poetry covers AQA's clusters for now; more set texts are on the way.
Recall
The layer we cover
Quotations, plot, characters, context and literary terminology: the knowledge every essay is built on. Essay writing and exam technique stay with the teacher. Educator makes sure the raw material is secure before they get there.
What's covered
Learn the quotations. Know the texts.
A strong English Literature answer needs the right quotation, the right context and the right terminology, from memory. Educator turns that into short daily practice with spaced repetition, so the knowledge is still there in the exam hall.
Macbeth
- ✓Key quotations for Macbeth, Lady Macbeth and the witches
- ✓Plot, structure and the key turning points
- ✓Jacobean context: kingship, witchcraft and the divine right of kings
Romeo and Juliet
- ✓Key quotations for the lovers, Mercutio and the Friar
- ✓Plot, characters and the feud
- ✓Context: Elizabethan attitudes to love, marriage and family
A Christmas Carol
- ✓Key quotations for Scrooge and the three spirits
- ✓The staves, the ghosts and the structure of the novella
- ✓Victorian context: poverty, the Poor Law and Dickens's purpose
Jekyll and Hyde
- ✓Key quotations for Jekyll, Hyde, Utterson and Lanyon
- ✓The narrative structure and the final revelations
- ✓Victorian context: duality, reputation and Darwin's ideas
An Inspector Calls
- ✓Who said what, and to whom
- ✓The Birling family and each character's part in Eva Smith's story
- ✓Context: 1912 against 1945 and Priestley's socialism
Blood Brothers
- ✓Characters, plot and the Narrator's role
- ✓Class, superstition and fate
- ✓Context: Liverpool in the 1960s and 1970s
Lord of the Flies
- ✓Characters, symbols and the key events
- ✓Plot and structure chapter by chapter
- ✓Context: the Second World War and the Cold War
Animal Farm
- ✓Characters and the historical figures they represent
- ✓The Seven Commandments and how they change
- ✓Context: the Russian Revolution and Stalin's USSR
AQA poetry anthology
- ✓Power and Conflict: the fifteen poems, poets and contexts
- ✓Love and Relationships: the fifteen poems, poets and contexts
- ✓Comparing the poems by theme, form and context
Literary terms
- ✓Language techniques, from simile to pathetic fallacy
- ✓Poetic form and metre
- ✓Drama terms and narrative methods
Sourced from the texts and the specifications. 755 cards across the most widely taught set texts: Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, A Christmas Carol, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, An Inspector Calls, Blood Brothers, Lord of the Flies and Animal Farm, plus AQA's Power and Conflict and Love and Relationships poetry clusters and the literary terms every answer relies on. Every card is checked against the text or a cited source, and quotations are verified word for word. For example, from Macbeth: Lady Macbeth, “Look like th' innocent flower, / But be the ___ under't.” And from Jekyll and Hyde: “Man is not truly one, but truly ___.” More set texts are on the way, and Educator does not teach essay writing: it secures the knowledge that essays are built from. Currently in Beta.
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One school. Unlimited classes. No card limit. No teacher limit. If your students aren't practising daily by the end of the trial, you owe us nothing.