Year 12 AS English Language and Literature:
ANTHOLOGY REVISION

1 Reread
Text 7 Seminar: Felicity and Mr Frost
Text 21 from The Water Babies
Text 30 Narrative 1 and Narrative 2
Text 25 from Decline and Fall

How can narrative be constructed?

2 Reread
Text 2 Comprehensive
Text 9 The Lesson
Text 16 Essay 50 - Of Studies

How do these writers set out to persuade readers to share their point of view?

3 Reread
Text 3 The Play Way
Text 15 Mysterious
Text 22 Sharon: Incest

How do these writers try to make their readers think about the relationship between teacher and pupil?

4 Reread
Text 5 Schoolroom on a wet afternoon
Text 8 Them & [uz]
Text 24 Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College

How do these writers move from the particular to the general to make philosophical points about childhood?

5 Reread
Text 13 Classroom Discourse
Text 26 from The Christian Brothers’ College, Bristol: Prospectus
Text 31 from St Bede’s College, Manchester: Prospectus

How do these writers adjust their use of language to refelct their intended audience?



6 Reread
Text 11 Head of English
Text 12 Re Your Poem and Recent Visit
Text 23 Our Day Out

How have these writers imitated the forms of spoken English and with what effect, and to what purpose?

7 Reread
Text 19 from Down with Skool
Text 27 from A Dear and Noble Boy
Text 29 The Girl who didn’t like maths

What are the characteristics of immature written English? How and why do the authors of text 19 imitate it?

8 Reread
Text 4 A Snowy Day in School
Text 18 The Day-School Master
Text 28 from Hard Times

How do these writers try to engage the reader’s sympathy for the teacher?

9 Reread
Text 6 Reports
Text 17 from The Intelligent Teachers’ Guide to Preferment
Text 25 from Decline and Fall

How do writers create tone and use it to affect the meaning of what they write?

10 Reread
Text 20 from The Beano Book
Text 32 from Language in the National Curriculum
Text 33 from Language in the National Curriculum

How can a simple use of ‘transactional analysis’ shed light on what is happening is these dialogues?

11 Reread
Text 1 Noises from the School
Text 10 In which the Ancient History I learn is not my own
Text 14 To school through the fields

How do these writers try to interpret their school days when they look back at them?