Wolsey Hall offers a unique model of offline and online resources to our home-schooling students – a model which we have developed based on our many years’ experience of providing home schooling courses to students.

All the files required for your course are uploaded onto our Learning Management System, Canvas, and your coursebook and set texts will be sent out to you.

Coursebook

Each subject specialist team carefully selects the best coursebook from which you will study. The coursebook for English Literature is:

Cambridge IGCSE and O Level Literature in English Course Book (2nd Edition, 2018); ISBN: 9781108439916

This is a lively and engaging coursebook, written to help you appreciate and enjoy a range of literature types. It has a wealth of activities, tips and worked examples designed to help you achieve exam success. It is endorsed by Cambridge and offers comprehensive coverage of the syllabus.

Set texts

Songs of Ourselves: Volume 2 (A CAIE Poetry Anthology), (Cambridge University Press); ISBN: 9781108462280
The War of the Worlds by H G Wells, ISBN: 9780198702641
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare (Cambridge University Press); ISBN: 9781107615458

Other resources

In addition to your coursebook, your tutors have sourced lots of interesting and fun resources to support your learning. These resources are clearly indicated in each module and you should make use of these alongside your coursebook work to ensure that you get the very best out of your course.

You can also make use of the extensive exam preparation material to help you prepare for your final examination. You will find past papers as well as their mark schemes in Module Ten: Exam Preparation.

This Wolsey Hall course also includes a subscription to Massolit. Massolit is a huge online library of videos created for school students studying arts and humanities subjects. The videos are short high-quality talks by top academics, aimed at inspiring you to engage with interesting ideas and critical discussion – great for helping you push yourself to go a bit further! Although useful for other Wolsey Hall courses such as History and Psychology, Massolit provides IGCSE English Literature students with some excellent videos on Shakespeare and on poetry in particular. See Massolit login for details on how to access these videos.