Literature Guidelines is a series of magazine-style books on popular texts for GCSE. They are designed to encourage pupils to become actively involved in researching the texts and in exploring their own responses. Material used includes contemporary social and political documents, letters, reviews, photographs and cartoons intended to stimulate a creative response and to promote a deeper understanding of the work. Assignments vary in type and length allowing pupils to respond according to individual interests and abilities. The material is intended to generate a variety of responses from pupils such as interviews with characters, write-ons, diaries, reviews, letters etc.