Unity Supra-Curricular: English Literature by Unity Schools Partnership https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature This Padlet is designed to promote further reading and develop you wider subject knowledge. en-us 2025-09-17 13:45:41 UTC 2025-12-17 12:40:29 UTC hello@padlet.com https://elvis.padletcdn.com/1/fetch/e_in/pixabay.com/get/gb08684703139c651173b38f76650e3559b5e69354d767dc53ccaf61209426c99350c62f78772d6efc00ace4fad5f7e56.jpg tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3696372748 A range of past papers and mark schemes to support your revision.

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]]> 2025-11-24 14:34:02 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3696391654 tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3696396557 The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms 4/e (Oxford Quick Reference): Amazon.co.uk: Baldick, Chris: 9780198715443: Books


"A Dictionary of Literary Terms" by Martin Gray is a comprehensive reference guide that explains a wide range of literary concepts, movements, and terminology, making it an essential resource for students and enthusiasts of literature.

]]> 2025-11-24 14:37:16 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3696396557 tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3696399529 Doing English presents the ideas and debates that shape how we ‘do’ English today, explaining arguments about the value of literature, the canon, Shakespeare, theory, politics and the subject itself.


Available in many other bookshops.

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Available from many bookshops and online retailers.

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]]> 2025-11-24 14:43:47 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3696405701 NEA Guide tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3696408792 2025-11-24 14:45:35 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3696408792 Feminist Approaches to Literature tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724453846 This essay offers a very basic introduction to feminist literary theory, and a compendium of Great Writers Inspire resources that can be approached from a feminist perspective.

]]> 2025-12-16 11:40:18 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724453846 Laura Mulvey- The Male Gaze: tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724455242 2025-12-16 11:41:46 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724455242 Toril Moi: Feminist, female, feminine tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724456105 “I’m not a feminist but…”: How feminism became the F word

]]> 2025-12-16 11:42:44 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724456105 Eco criticism tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724456868 This is the study of literature and the environment from an interdisciplinary point of view, where the presentation of nature, environmental concerns and location are explored.

]]> 2025-12-16 11:43:31 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724456868 Marxist Criticism tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724457855 This focuses on the economic and political elements of literature. Marxist criticism often argues that all literature is political. It is frequently criticised as judgmental, but Marxist criticism "can illuminate political and economic dimensions of literature other approaches overlook." There is a sense that text is separable from the literary times which produced it.

]]> 2025-12-16 11:44:34 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724457855 Post-colonial tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724458886 This focuses on the cultural legacy of colonialism and imperialism.

]]> 2025-12-16 11:45:17 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724458886 Psychological Criticism tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724460451 2025-12-16 11:46:35 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724460451 A Very Short Introduction: English Literature tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724462393 2025-12-16 11:48:24 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724462393 A Very Short Introduction: Romanticism tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724462769 2025-12-16 11:48:52 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724462769 A Very Short Introduction: Tragedy tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724463109 2025-12-16 11:49:16 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724463109 A Very Short Introduction: Shakespeare tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724463527 2025-12-16 11:49:46 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724463527 It doesn’t have to be all Greek to you… tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724465059 An Introduction to Greek Tragedy | National Theatre

Much of English Literature has developed from two sources: the bible and Greek Mythology. Exploring the following stories will give you a strong foundation.

]]> 2025-12-16 11:51:13 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724465059 Paper people: Harry Baker tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724466559 Paper People is a poem written by World Grand Slam Poetry Champion Harry Baker. It reimagines the joys and struggles of life, in a paper-crafted world.

]]> 2025-12-16 11:53:07 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724466559 Ken Robinson: Changing Educational Paradigms tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724467952 2025-12-16 11:54:29 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724467952 10 talks for when you wish you had time to read tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724468585 2025-12-16 11:54:59 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724468585 The power of fiction tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724468973 2025-12-16 11:55:25 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724468973 How Fiction can help us better understand our reality tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724469458 2025-12-16 11:55:52 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724469458 How books can open your mind tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724469726 2025-12-16 11:56:10 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724469726 We Should All Be Feminists tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724470685 2025-12-16 11:56:46 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724470685 The Danger of a Single Story tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724471201 2025-12-16 11:57:18 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724471201 Bibliotherapy tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724471853 2025-12-16 11:57:58 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724471853 The Verb tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724472746 2025-12-16 11:58:31 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724472746 In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724473124 2025-12-16 11:58:52 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724473124 Akala: Hip Hop & Shakespeare? tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724474641 2025-12-16 12:00:20 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724474641 The Oxford Union Debate: Kanye is more relevant than Shakespeare (8 parts) tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724475477 2025-12-16 12:00:56 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724475477 Fiction tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724478348 Frankenstein – Mary Shelley

Dracula – Bram Stoker

The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

The Lovely Bones- Alice Seabold

The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Things Fall Apart- Chinua Achibe

God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy

1984- George Orwell

Wuthering Heights – Jane Eyre Wide

Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys

Purple Hibiscus, Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi

Adichie Heart of Darkness- Joseph Conrad

The Colour Purple- Alice Walker

The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath

To Kill a Mockingbird- Harper Lee

Brave New World- Alduous Huxley

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

Tess of the d’Urbervilles- Thomas Hardy

The Word for World Is Forest- Ursula Le Guin

]]> 2025-12-16 12:04:05 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724478348 Plays & Poetry tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724480275 The Metaphysical Poets: A selection (John Donne)

Henrik Ibsen: A selection

Robert Browning: A selection (Porphyria’s Lover, The Laboratory)

Seamus Heaney: A selection

Sylvia Plath: A selection Ted Hughes: A selection

Shakespeare (particularly the tragedies)

Keats: A selection

Goblin Market - Christina Rossetti

Paradise Lost- John Milton (Chapter I & II)

The Iliad- Homer The Odyssey- Homer

Telling Tales- Patience Agbabi

]]> 2025-12-16 12:06:10 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724480275 Non-fiction tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724481281 Essais- Montaigne

In Cold Blood- Truman Capote

Stasiland - Anna Funder

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl- Anne Frank

Women and Power- Mary Beard

Educated- Tara Westover

We Should All be Feminists- Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche

No One is Too Small to Make A Difference - Greta Thunberg

The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began- Stephen Greenblatt

]]> 2025-12-16 12:07:27 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724481281 Poetry Foundation tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724482736 2025-12-16 12:09:01 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724482736 The Saturday Poem tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724483119 2025-12-16 12:09:31 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724483119 National Poetry Library tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724483507 2025-12-16 12:10:03 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724483507 Poem Hunter tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724483755 2025-12-16 12:10:19 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724483755 Scottish Poetry Library tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724484081 2025-12-16 12:10:45 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724484081 Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724484347 2025-12-16 12:11:07 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724484347 Poets.org tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724485246 If a voice touches you in the right spot, parts of your life will change forever.

]]> 2025-12-16 12:11:37 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724485246 Poetry By Heart tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724485579 2025-12-16 12:11:58 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724485579 National Theatre tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724495758 2025-12-16 12:21:45 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724495758 Digital Theatre tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724496487 Enjoy world-class theatre.


Best-selling titles include David Tennant and Catherine Tate in Much Ado About Nothing and Richard Armitage in Arthur Miller's The Crucible.

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]]> 2025-12-16 12:26:22 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724499635 50 Great 21st Century Novels For 6th Formers tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724500977 Andrew McCallum presents EMC's 'List of 50 Great 21st Century Novels for 6th Formers'.

]]> 2025-12-16 12:27:53 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724500977 Booker Prize tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724503358 2025-12-16 12:29:49 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724503358 Carnegie Prize tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724503861 Discover the 125 books nominated for the Carnegie Medals for Writing and Illustration

]]> 2025-12-16 12:30:25 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724503861 Women's Prize Trust tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724504621 Welcome to the home of women's voices

Bringing people together through a shared passion for books written by women

]]> 2025-12-16 12:31:03 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724504621 The Crime Writers’ Association tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724505205 The CWA awards thirteen Daggers in total. Nine of these are for books and short stories and are judged independently by industry professionals.

]]> 2025-12-16 12:31:46 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724505205 Wellcome Book Prize tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724505847 Science to solve the urgent health challenges facing everyone

]]> 2025-12-16 12:32:36 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724505847 The James Tait Black Prizes tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724506554 The UK's longest running literary award


Established in 1919, the James Tait Black Prizes are the only major book prize judged by scholars and students.

]]> 2025-12-16 12:33:17 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724506554 The Art of the Essay tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724508836 We know that essays are what you write in English. But, beyond knowing they are the way you show your knowledge in an English exam, what is an essay? And can its meaning outside the classroom help us write better essays inside the classroom (and get more enjoyment from doing it)?


Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: “Beware Of Feminist Lite” From We Should All Be Feminists https://ideas.ted.com/Beware-Of-Feminism-Lite


Zavi Kang Engles: My Mother’s Tongue https://therumpus.net/2019/04/My-Mothers-Tongue/


George Orwell: Politics of the English Language https://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit


Zadie Smith: Some Notes On Atunement https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/12/17/some-notes-on-attunement

]]> 2025-12-16 12:35:43 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724508836 Not Another Book Podcast tgssixthform https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724510621 2025-12-16 12:37:30 UTC https://padlet.com/tgssixthform/unity_supra_curricular_english_literature/wish/3724510621