Adventures in English and History

[woolymonkey]

Spider seems to have survived his GCSE Eng Lit paper. He got questions he liked, anyway. The unseen poem was'The List' by U A Fanthorpe. It doesn't seem to be online anywhere (maybe that's why they call it 'unseen'?) and I'm really curious to read it. Can anyone help?

Meanwhile in History lessons, they've started a new topic: conflict in the Middle East. Spider was doing well at explaining how tensions arose after WW2... until someone pointed out a crucial spelling mistake. It seems the Jews wanted more Plastecine. Sometimes the dyslexic world is much nicer than the normal one.

Comments

[penknife.livejournal.com]

Here's The List.

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I like it. It has a lot more substance than the sort of thing we've come to expect. He seems to have found lots to say about it, which must be good, though all he's reported is that he kept writing about 'monotomy'. Lets hope bad handwriting will cancel out bad spelling...

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

That's good news. Yay Spider! I will check my poetry books for that, but I suspect I don't have anything modern enough.

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

It's OK, I have it now. (See penknife's comment). But thanks anyway.

[ms-cataclysm.livejournal.com]

Let them have play doh (sorry!)

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

:-)

[smtfhw.livejournal.com]

Love the idea of plastecine. I agree - the world would be a much better place if that were so.

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

If the UN only had a more generous supply of children's art materials, all would be well.

[(Anonymous)]

I got The list from Bet next door who has nearly all UA Fanthorpe, but I see I have been beaten to it. One cannot accuse the GCSE of dumbing down, I am glad Patrick was inspired by it! Perhaps having seen the Egyptian processions of offering at the BM last year helps. They are on the cover of the book I have. I like to think of her thinking about the cycle of life and death while watching the outpatients come and go and doing the typing!

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

Hello! Yes it was a much more serious poem than they've been practising on, but I think he liked that. And they did give them some annotations to help make sense of it.