This page lists what we actually have for AQA GCSE English Literature 8702. It is built from the live activities, so it is accurate on the day you read it.
The problem every Literature resource has
Most subject pages on this site can describe a course. This one cannot, quite, because AQA 8702 does not specify a course. It specifies five slots: Shakespeare, a 19th-century novel, modern prose or drama, the poetry anthology, and unseen poetry. Your department fills four of those from lists.
The consequence is that "AQA English Literature revision" means something different in every school, and any resource has to decide how to handle it.
Naming a text makes the material sharp and narrows who it serves. Naming none keeps it universal and drains it: a student cannot practise analysing an extract without an extract in front of them.
What these actually do
They take the third option, and they say so out loud rather than leaving a teacher to discover it.
Nine of the eleven activities teach the method on a named text, chosen as the most widely taught option for that component:
- Shakespeare, three activities, worked on Macbeth.
- The 19th-century novel, two, worked on A Christmas Carol.
- Modern prose or drama, two, worked on An Inspector Calls.
- The poetry anthology, two, worked on the Power and Conflict cluster.
The activity itself says this on the opening screen. The Shakespeare one tells the student it will learn the method on Macbeth as AQA's most popular choice, and that the approach works for any set play. That is a claim about method rather than content, and it is the honest version of what these can do.
The remaining two are unseen poetry, which has no set text by definition. Those two work for every school on this specification, whatever you teach.
So who is this useful to
If you teach those four texts, the activities are directly usable: the quotations, characters and context are the ones your students need.
If you teach different texts, what transfers is the method. How to mine an extract for detail and use it as a springboard into the whole text. How to keep a quotation short enough to actually memorise. How to weave context into an argument rather than bolting it on at the end, which is where AO3 marks are usually lost.
What does not transfer is everything specific. A student revising Jekyll and Hyde will not find Jekyll and Hyde quotations here. That is worth knowing before you set one for homework, rather than after a student tells you.
What the activities ask students to do
Nine of the eleven ask for written analysis or a written plan rather than only a selection, which suits a subject assessed entirely on extended writing. Eight put text on screen for the student to work on directly.
The three embedded below are playable here without an account. One is Shakespeare on Macbeth, one is theme work on An Inspector Calls, and one is unseen poetry, which needs no set text at all.
Using them
The lists below group by classroom use, worked out from what each activity contains. The activities themselves, with the recall goal spelled out, are described in ready-to-run revision activities, and for students working alone between lessons see independent revision students actually keep doing.
If you also teach the Language course, that specification has no set content at all, which is the mirror image of this one: AQA English Language revision.
To put several in front of one class in order, build a sprint. Everything else we have, by subject and board, is on the revision pages.
What this page does not do
It does not cover your texts unless they are those four. The method transfers, the material does not, and no amount of framing changes that.
It does not cover the poetry anthology beyond one cluster. Power and Conflict only; if your department teaches Love and Relationships or Worlds and Lives, the two anthology activities are method practice rather than content practice.
It is eleven activities across a two-year course, so it is a supplement, not a scheme of work.
It does not track anything, so there is no completion list to check.