English higher syllabus

[nolassie]

Can somebody tell me what texts their child is expected to know when they're sitting their Higher English? Just x number of novels, y poetry, z plays. DS reckons he's doing one play and then poetry for the rest of the year. The school has a really bad English department that has been failing for years but really surpassed itself last year in not teaching 2 classes the curriculum at all. What DS is telling me doesn't sound right but I can't see anything on SQA website just stuff about learning outcomes etc. TIA

Agreed more for a 17 year old than a 12 year old. DD3 has a toddler book called "How Goes the Work" where the duck takes over from the lazy farmer. I don't like reading it because it makes me see Animal Farm in my head.

I did read through the school library's Catherine Cookson collection aged 12. Not sure that was such a good plan either.

My DD studied 'To kill a Mockingbird' and lots of Carol Ann Duffy poems earlier this year for her Higher English. She got 78% (A) in the exam. She lost most of her marks on the close reading, even though it appeared quite straightforward.

My DDs reckon close reading is always much harder than you think.

Does anyone have thoughts on the new Harper Lee book?

DD1 has 12 February 2016 marked in her diary to take me to the pictures to see Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. DH tells me it is an idea from an old computer game. The deal is she has to read Jane Austen and the bbc bitesize study notes first - I was quite impressed by them.