Much of the English curriculum treats texts as isolated learning events. Discrete packets of disciplinary knowledge—Freud’s model of the psyche, for instance—are applied to one novel and then abandoned, rather than revisited and transferred across future reading. This is not because certain authors uniquely “fit” particular theories, but because the curriculum has failed to build…

There’s many jobs to complete around Discipline of English, and I’ve rather given myself too many threads to tie off! But one I want to get done asap is to turn the Literature lessons into a student workbook. This is inspired by a school I visited once upon a time that printed their own workbooks…