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.

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[(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.