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Reading Comprehension
COMPARATIVE - Vision & Viewpoint
COMPARATIVE - Theme or Issue
COMPARATIVE - Literary Genre
COMPARATIVE - Cultural Context
Hamlet
King Lear
POETRY - Bishop (2023/24)
COMPOSITION ( Personal Writing )
POETRY - Durcan (2020/21)
POETRY - Dickinson (2023/24)
POETRY - Frost (2020/21)
POETRY - Heaney (2024)
POETRY - Hopkins (2024)
POETRY - Keats
POETRY - Ní Chuilleanáin (2024)
POETRY - Plath (2024)
POETRY - Rich (2023)
TEXT - All My Sons
TEXT - Americanah
TEXT - Never Let Me Go (2021)
TEXT - Persuasion
TEXT - The Great Gatsby
TEXT - The Handmaid's Tale
TEXT - Wuthering Heights
POETRY - Unseen
POETRY - Boland (2025)
COMPARATIVE - Hero & Villain
COMPARATIVE - Relationships
COMPARATIVE - Social Setting
COMPARATIVE - Theme
King Lear ( 2021 )
POETRY - Bishop (2021)
POETRY - Boland
POETRY - Dickinson
POETRY - Frost
POETRY - Heaney (2021)
POETRY - Hopkins (2021)
POETRY - Larkin
POETRY - Montague
POETRY - Ní Chuilleanáin
POETRY - Piercy
POETRY - Plath (2021)
POETRY - Shelley (2021)
POETRY - Thomas
TEXT - A Doll's House
TEXT - Big Maggie
TEXT - By The Bog of Cats (2021)
TEXT - Circle of Friends
TEXT - Death & Nightingales
TEXT - Emma
TEXT - Home Before Night
TEXT - Playboy of the Western World
TEXT - Room ( 2021 )
TEXT - The Handmaid's Tale ( 2021 )
TEXT - The Plough and the Stars
TEXT - The Spinning Heart
TEXT - Translations
The Tempest
Unseen Poetry
Othello
Macbeth
Unseen poetry
POETRY - Kavanagh (2023)
POETRY - Donne (2023/24)
POETRY - Yeats (2023)
POETRY - Mahon (2023)
Paper Breakdown: Higher Level
Style of Question
Style of Language
Approaching Text QB
Letter
Articles
Speech & Talk
Diary & Blog
Radio Talk/Interview
Podcast
Introduction
Report
Proposal
Petition
Introduction to the Composition
Article
Descriptive Essay
Discursive Essay
Personal Essay
Short Story
Speech
Dracula
Frankenstein
The Crucible
Navigating the Comparative Modes
Theme or Issue (2025)
Cultural Context (2025/2026)
General Vision and Viewpoint (2025/2026)
Literary Genre (2026)
Never Let Me Go
Rebecca
All The Light We Cannot See
Pride and Prejudice
Medea
Sive
LadyBird
The Shawshank Redemption
Rosie
Knives Out
Derek Mahon
Patrick Kavanagh
Thomas S.Eliot
Emily Dickinson
Eavan Boland
Sylvia Plath
Elizabeth Bishop
Gerard Manley Hopkins
John Donne
Seamus Heaney
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
William Butler Yeats
Response Strategy
Poetic Techniques
Key Vocabulary
Paula Meehan
Where the Crawdads Sing
Small Things Like These
Tracy K. Smith
Barbie
Kindertransport
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Educated
The Banshees of Inisherin
On the Waterfront
The Big Sleep
General Vision and Viewpoint
Cultural Context
Theme or Issue
Adrienne Rich
The Great Gatsby
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