The Best We Could Do for the Comparative Study (HL) - Complete Bundle

Everything you need to teach The Best We Could Do for the Leaving Cert English Comparative Study (Higher Level): Student Textbook and Teacher Guide in one download.

Designed for the Leaving Certificate English Comparative Study at Higher Level, the bundle covers all four modes: Cultural Context, Literary Genre, Theme or Issue, and General Vision and Viewpoint. Every comparison point is partner-agnostic, so the set works whatever texts you pair the graphic memoir with.

• Student Textbook (31 pages): continuous, exam-ready analysis of the book, written for students to read independently. Each mode chapter opens with a “Reading for this mode” primer and “What the examiners ask”, works through the book’s key moments with close readings and technique tables, and ends with a sample comparative paragraph (with slots for the student’s second text), “Setting this text against others” notes, and a comparison grid in which the The Best We Could Do column is already filled in and the Text 2 and Text 3 columns are left for the student’s own combination. Original, SEC-style practice questions for every mode close the book. Licensed for the purchasing teacher to copy for their own students.
• Teacher Guide (27 pages): the preparation done for you. Before-you-teach and sensitive-content notes; the book for the teacher (story and structure, characters, the world of the book, themes, how it is told, and the outlook); a key-moments bank and a quotation and reference bank, each entry attributed to its moment in the book; all four modes broken down (what examiners reward, where the book is strong, what to teach, the errors to pre-empt); a workable teaching sequence and the misreadings of The Best We Could Do to pre-empt; notes on running the textbook’s comparison grids, sample paragraphs and practice questions; coupling guidance; assessment essentials (PCLM marking, the PEAL paragraph shape, timing); and question-angle banks drawn from recent SEC papers.

The comparison grid rows are identical across every Prescribed Shelf comparative Student Textbook, so if your other texts are covered too, the three books line up row by row for your exact text combination.

Buy the bundle and save on the separate prices. Written by a practising teacher.