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Literature Ages 14-16 UK Years 10-11 US Grades 9-10<br />

<strong>New</strong> <strong>Windmills</strong><br />

continued<br />

Dictionary<br />

for all your students’<br />

vocabulary support<br />

Arthur Miller<br />

The Crucible<br />

Arthur Miller’s classic study<br />

of the mass hysteria and<br />

persecution which led to the<br />

tragic 1692 Salem witchcraft<br />

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Shakespeare<br />

Romeo and Juliet<br />

Shakespeare’s famous story<br />

of the “star-crossed” lovers.<br />

Teenagers Romeo Montague<br />

and Juliet Capulet fall deeply<br />

in love then discover that<br />

their families are bitter<br />

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secret, despite the feud<br />

between their families and,<br />

even though they try to<br />

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story ends in tragedy.<br />

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Macbeth<br />

When three witches predict<br />

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decides that he will murder<br />

the then ruler, King Duncan.<br />

Macbeth’s wife supports<br />

his plan and helps him by<br />

smearing Duncan’s blood on<br />

the daggers of the sleeping<br />

guards. Macbeth becomes<br />

king but more murders<br />

ensues and, while the ghost<br />

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to Macbeth, his wife’s<br />

conscience tortures her until<br />

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With over 40,000<br />

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Shakespeare<br />

Much Ado about<br />

Nothing<br />

Two young lovers, Claudio<br />

and Hero, are set to be<br />

married but resenting<br />

the celebrations, Don<br />

John seeks a way to spoil<br />

their happiness and plots<br />

to thwart the nuptials.<br />

Meanwhile, marriage seems<br />

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Twelfth Night<br />

Orsino, Duke of Illyria, is in<br />

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countess, Olivia, and Orsino<br />

sends his new page, who is<br />

in fact a shipwrecked woman<br />

disguised as a man, to woo<br />

her. The cross-dressing page,<br />

Viola, who is in mourning for<br />

her twin brother, is secretly<br />

in love with Orsino and<br />

havoc ensues as jealousy<br />

takes hold. The surprise<br />

arrival of Viola’s brother,<br />

Sebastian, results in further<br />

mistaken identity and a duel,<br />

<br />

Sebastian and Viola marries<br />

Orsino.<br />

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Literature<br />

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Julius Caesar<br />

Julius Caesar is the ambitious<br />

Chief Senator of Rome.<br />

When he expresses his<br />

desire to overthrow the<br />

democracy and install himself<br />

as Emperor, the senators<br />

plot his assassination. A<br />

prophecy warns him to<br />

‘’beware the Ides of March’’<br />

and, despite the pleas of his<br />

wife, Calphurnia, not to go to<br />

the Senate on 15th March,<br />

he meets his demise at the<br />

hands of the senators, led by<br />

Brutus and Cassius.<br />

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