Book excerpt: The DP English Student Workbook presents a range of student centered activities designed to scaffold the process of literary analysis. All activities presented are directly based on the objectives and assessment criteria from the IB Diploma Programme Language A English courses. The DP English Student Workbook: systematically introduces the language of literary analysis focuses on the students role in the building of connections between parts of texts presents a mix of substantive conversation and focused writing introduces a range of extracts for commentary allows original ideas to be generated in a scaffolded framework The DP English Student Workbook is designed to help students collect and organize their ideas about texts for the full two year period of the DP Language A course. The skills targeted in this Workbook will enable students to analyze, in a critical manner, familiar and unfamiliar texts well after they leave our schools and it is in this spirit of Lifelong Learning that the activities have been presented.