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Middle Years Programme connections

Explore 55 close-reading lessons across 16 TumbleLit texts through the six MYP global contexts and the four Language and Literature key concepts.

TumbleLit MYP connections

MYP is a flexible framework for students aged 11–16. Schools choose texts and construct their own units. These evidence-derived connections are not IB-approved, IB-prescribed, or an official IB reading list.

Exact MYP years appear only on the three mappings confirmed in the supplied prototype; all other year placements are school-selected.

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Identities and relationships

9 books

Identity, beliefs, values, and relationships.

MYP year placement: school-selected · Identities and relationships

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

Key concept: CommunicationConservative evidence-derived connection

4 close-reading lessons

  1. How does Dickens make Scrooge seem less like a person and more like a climate?
  2. What does Marley's chain make visible about responsibility?
  3. How does Belle prove Scrooge has changed without listing what he has done?
  4. Which action is the strongest evidence that Scrooge's transformation is more than a promise?
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MYP year placement: school-selected · Identities and relationships

A Doll's House

Henrik Ibsen

Key concept: ConnectionsConservative evidence-derived connection

4 close-reading lessons

  1. What does the macaroon scene establish about Nora and Torvald before the serious secret is revealed?
  2. How does the letter-box change Nora's secret from something she manages into something she can no longer control?
  3. What does the doll metaphor let Nora say about both her father and her marriage?
  4. Why does Nora say coming back would require both people to change?
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MYP year placement: school-selected · Identities and relationships

Anne of Green Gables

L. M. Montgomery

Key concept: CreativityConservative evidence-derived connection

4 close-reading lessons

  1. Why is being 'Anne of Green Gables' already better to Anne than being the imaginary Lady Cordelia?
  2. How does Anne turn an embarrassing mistake into evidence that she is improving?
  3. Why does Anne describe staying in Avonlea as a bend in the road rather than the end of the road?
  4. Why does Anne discover a disadvantage in finally entering the luxurious room she once dreamed about?
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MYP year placement: school-selected · Identities and relationships

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

Key concept: CommunicationConservative evidence-derived connection

4 close-reading lessons

  1. Why does Alice treat changing size as evidence that she may have become a different person?
  2. What is wrong with the Cat's proof that Alice must be mad?
  3. What becomes possible once Time is treated as someone who can be offended?
  4. Why is 'sentence first—verdict afterwards' funny and threatening at the same time?
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MYP year placement: school-selected · Identities and relationships

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

Key concept: ConnectionsConservative evidence-derived connection

4 close-reading lessons

  1. How do the four sisters reveal different ideas about what it means to have enough?
  2. Why is the destroyed manuscript more than simply a possession Jo has lost?
  3. What does the failed Saturday teach the March sisters that Marmee's warning alone did not?
  4. What does Jo's imagined future reveal about what she values before she has achieved any of it?
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MYP year placement: school-selected · Identities and relationships

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes

Key concept: PerspectiveConservative evidence-derived connection

4 close-reading lessons

  1. At what point does Don Quixote stop reading chivalric stories and start living inside their rules?
  2. Why doesn't Sancho's accurate explanation of the windmills change Don Quixote's belief?
  3. How does Don Quixote keep the helmet interpretation alive while a room full of people calls the object a basin?
  4. What does Don Quixote reject when he says he is Alonso Quixano again?
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MYP year placement: school-selected · Identities and relationships

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

Key concept: CommunicationConservative evidence-derived connection

4 close-reading lessons

  1. What does Dorian's wish reveal about what he has learned to value in only a few minutes?
  2. What is ironic about Lord Henry's argument that influence destroys individuality?
  3. When does the portrait stop being a record of beauty and become a moral instrument?
  4. Why does destroying the portrait destroy Dorian instead of freeing him?
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MYP year placement: school-selected · Identities and relationships

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Washington Irving

Key concept: CreativityConservative evidence-derived connection

4 close-reading lessons

  1. How does Irving make the place itself responsible for what people are willing to believe?
  2. What does Ichabod's imagination reveal about what he wants when he thinks about Katrina?
  3. Why is the thrown 'head' more suspicious once Ichabod expects the Horseman to vanish at the bridge?
  4. Which details support Brom Bones more strongly than the supernatural explanation?
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Personal and cultural expression

1 books

How people express ideas, feelings, culture, and beliefs.

Orientations in space and time

1 books

Personal histories, journeys, turning points, and civilizations.

MYP 4–5 · Orientations in space and time

The Last of the Mohicans

James Fenimore Cooper

Key concept: PerspectiveRon-confirmed prototype mapping

4 close-reading lessons

  1. What does Hawkeye reveal by asserting his identity while admitting his own people's wrongdoing?
  2. How does Tamenund's list make expansion look like a pattern rather than a single injustice?
  3. What does Uncas abandoning his rifle reveal about what matters most in the pursuit?
  4. How does Tamenund make Uncas's death mean more than the loss of one person?
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Scientific and technical innovation

1 books

How people understand the world and shape it through innovation.

MYP year placement: school-selected · Scientific and technical innovation

The War of the Worlds

H. G. Wells

Key concept: PerspectiveConservative evidence-derived connection

4 close-reading lessons

  1. What happens to human importance when Wells makes us the creatures under the microscope?
  2. At what point does the crowd stop treating the cylinder as an object and start treating it as a threat?
  3. Why does the narrator keep comparing Martian machinery to familiar human things?
  4. Why does Wells end the invasion by making the smallest organisms stronger than the strongest machines?
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Fairness and development

4 books

Rights, access, conflict, peace, and the resolution of difference.

MYP year placement: school-selected · Fairness and development

Up From Slavery

Booker T. Washington

Key concept: CommunicationConservative evidence-derived connection

4 close-reading lessons

  1. Why does sweeping one room tell the teacher something an ordinary entrance exam would not?
  2. What does Washington learn by traveling before deciding what Tuskegee should teach?
  3. How does Washington change the meaning of 'cast down your bucket' when he turns from Black listeners to white listeners?
  4. Why does Washington argue that restricting Black advancement harms the people doing the restricting?
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MYP year placement: school-selected · Fairness and development

Common Sense

Thomas Paine

Key concept: CommunicationConservative evidence-derived connection

4 close-reading lessons

  1. Why does Paine treat habit itself as an obstacle to political reasoning?
  2. Why does Paine begin by separating society from government instead of treating them as the same thing?
  3. Why is the island/continent comparison more persuasive than simply saying England is far away?
  4. What changes when Paine says the decision belongs not just to the present but to posterity?
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Globalization and sustainability

0 books

Interconnection, systems, and their effects on people and place.

No current connection

No current TumbleLit connection cleared the conservative evidence threshold for this context. The context remains visible so zero is not mistaken for missing data.

Conservative census: 157 unique TumbleLit book groups reviewed; 16 accepted, 89 abstained, and 52 excluded from this MYP candidate scope. No target total was forced.

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