The Destruction of Sennacherib

On the year-1 roadmap. Editorial work hasn't started yet — vote to push it up the queue.

About the Edexcel curriculum

Pearson Edexcel's GCSE English Literature specification covers two papers across Shakespeare and post-1914 literature, the nineteenth-century novel, and a poetry component built on the Edexcel anthology and unseen comparison. The anthology divides into themed collections — Conflict, Relationships, and Time and Place — each running roughly fifteen poems from across the canon. The Conflict anthology runs from Blake's A Poison Tree and Byron's The Destruction of Sennacherib through Owen, Heaney's Exposure-adjacent material, Mary Casey's The Class Game, and contemporary voices like Benjamin Zephaniah. The set-text list pairs A Christmas Carol or Jekyll and Hyde with Of Mice and Men, An Inspector Calls, or — increasingly often — Tanika Gupta's The Empress. Edexcel teachers are the most likely of the four big English boards to rotate texts across cohorts, which means a department needs anthology coverage that doesn't go stale every two years. Storgy's Edexcel coverage targets the anthology in full, then the most-taught set-text combinations, with handouts that match the AO weightings on Edexcel mark schemes (AO1 close reading, AO2 language/form/structure, AO3 context, AO4 spelling/punctuation/grammar where the question requires it). We won't promise integration with ResultsPlus until we ship it; what we will promise is a poetry pack that doesn't feel like a chart designed for a novel.