A complete, student-friendly revision booklet for Junior Cycle English designed for 3rd Year students in the lead-up to exams. This resource provides clear, structured notes on all key areas of the course, alongside essential exam skills and quick revision supports.

What’s included:

Core Skills
Theme, tone, mood, symbolism, contrast
Dialogue, irony, motif, flashback
Tension, suspense, climax

Short Stories
The Sniper (Liam O’Flaherty)
Lamb to the Slaughter (Roald Dahl)
Includes plot, themes, characters, techniques and key quotes

Poetry (Complete Set)
Mid-Term Break – Seamus Heaney
Digging – Seamus Heaney
Tich Miller – Wendy Cope
Suicide in the Trenches – Siegfried Sassoon
Base Details – Siegfried Sassoon
Dulce et Decorum Est – Wilfred Owen
Hope is the Thing with Feathers – Emily Dickinson
The Road Not Taken – Robert Frost
Daffodils – William Wordsworth
Shall I Compare Thee – Shakespeare
The Lake Isle of Innisfree – W.B. Yeats
Still I Rise – Maya Angelou
Funeral Blues – W.H. Auden
Each poem includes summary, themes, techniques and key quotes

Novels
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
The Outsiders – S.E. Hinton
The Weight of Water – Sarah Crossan
Trash – Andy Mulligan
Includes plot, characters, themes, context and key moments

Drama
Blood Brothers – Willy Russell
Twelve Angry Men – Reginald Rose
Wonder Boy – Ross Willis
Stones in His Pockets – Marie Jones

Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice
Romeo and Juliet
Includes detailed notes on plot, characters, themes, symbols and context

Film
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Sing Street
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Little Women
Includes key scenes, themes, techniques and analysis

Exam Skills and Language
Unseen text strategies
P.E.E / P.Q.E paragraph structure
Figurative language
Tone and mood
Functional writing (letter, speech, article, etc.)
Grammar essentials

Revision Supports
Quick practice tasks
Opening and closing sentence guides
Last-minute checklist
Exam tips and time management

This booklet is designed to support independent revision, reinforce classroom learning, and build confidence before exams.