THEMATIC CONTENTS
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A New Direction
• Long Walk to Freedom (p. 20)
• Formal letters (p. 35) – Layout of a formal letter (p. 36)
– Letter 1 (p. 37) – Letter 2 (p. 38)
• Emails (p. 39) – Sample email (p. 40)
Life Lessons
• Blogs (p. 11) – Nathalie Marquez Courtney (p. 12)
• Vlogs (p. 15) – How to vlog (p. 15)
• Debates (p. 47) – This house believes that written homework should be banned (p. 51)
• Biographies (p. 25) – Fantastic Mr Dahl (p. 26)
Loving and Leaving
• Reviews (p. 53) – Review of the Easy Reader (p. 53)
– The Fault in Our Stars by John Green – review (p. 55)
• Debates (p. 47) – This house believes that cats make better pets than dogs (p. 49)
Relationships • One by Sarah Crossan, book review: An admirable
and affecting tale of conjoined twins (p. 258)
• Rosa Parks (theme) (p. 85)
• Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
(sibilance) (p. 90) • Daffodils (simile) (p. 97)
• Tula (enjambment) (p. 103)
• Feeling Good (p. 121)
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (p. 134)
• Plot (p. 136)
• August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains (p. 139)
• Setting (p. 150) – The Hobbit (p. 151)
– The Sentinel (p. 152)
• Homework! Oh, Homework! (repetition) (p. 81)
• Don’t Be Scared (metaphor) (p. 99)
• Back in the Playground Blues (hyperbole) (p. 101)
• Blackberry-Picking (onomatopoeia) (p. 109)
• When I’m Sixty-Four (rhythm) (p. 70)
• Base Details (alliteration) (p. 87)
• When You are Old (lyric poetry) (p. 95)
• The Lake Isle of Innisfree (imagery) (p. 79)
• Nettles (p. 268) • Digging (p. 270)
• He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven (p. 276)
• 40 — Love (p. 277) • One (p. 254)
• Goodnight Mister Tom (p. 261)
• My Strange Grandfather (p. 272)
• Irish Mammies (p. 273)
• The Member of the Wedding (p. 274)
• World Friendship Day (p. 264)
• The Loudest House on the Street (p. 267)
• A dog is a human’s best friend (p. 265)
• The Confi rmation Suit (p. 145)
• Coraline (p. 164)
• Narrative voice (p. 166) – Perks of Being a Wallfl ower (p. 166) – Vincent (p. 166) • Powder (p. 167)
• The Golden Shroud (p. 154)
• Pygmalion (stage directions) (p. 180)
• Janey Mary (p. 207)
• Storyboarding (p. 209)
• The Lady in the Van (p. 211)
• The White Dress (p. 214)
• William Shakespeare (p. 199)
• Twelfth Night (costume) (p. 200)
• A Shop Selling Speech (props) (p. 187)
• Magazines (p. 223) • Newspapers (p. 224) – The Irish Sun (p. 227) – Irish Independent (p. 228)
– Puppy Dog Cries (p. 230)
– Five puppies among 10 dogs seized at Dublin Port by customs offi cers (p. 231)
• Television advertising (p. 235)
– Specsavers (p. 235) – Aer Lingus (p. 235)
• Radio advertising (p. 236)
– Brennans Bread (p. 236)
– Great Irish Radio Ads (p. 236)
• Beauty and the Beast (p. 246)
• Exclamation marks (p. 241)
• Quotation marks (p. 58)
• How to draft and redraft (p. 31)
• Commas (p. 14)
• Apostrophes (p. 94)
• Present tense and past tense (p. 131)
• Homophones and puns (p. 226)
• How to give a presentation (p. 22)
• Paragraphs (p. 23)
• Prepositions (p. 260)
• There, they’re and their (p. 263)
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