AQA Anthology

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The 2008 edition of the AQA Anthology

The Assessment and Qualifications Alliance (the AQA) has produced Anthologies for GCSE Latin and English Literature studied in English schools. This follows on from AQA's predecessor organisations; Northern Examinations and Assessment Board (NEAB) and Southern Examining Group (SEG).

2000 Anthology[]

The second AQA Anthology was published in 2000 and covered four sections: poets in the , poems from other cultures and traditions, 20th-century prose, and 20th- or pre-20th-century poetry.[1]

English: Poets in the English Literary Heritage[]

Simon Armitage[]

  • "I Am Very Bothered When I Think"
  • "Poem"
  • "It Ain't What You Do, It's What It Does To You"
  • "Cataract Operation"
  • "About His Person"

Ted Hughes[]

  • "Works and Play"
  • "The Warm and the Cold"
  • "The Tractor"
  • "Wind"
  • "Hawk Roosting"

Carol Ann Duffy[]

  • "War Photographer"
  • "Valentine"
  • "Stealing"
  • "Before You Were Mine"
  • "In Mrs. Tilscher's Class"

English: Poems from other cultures and traditions[]

English literature: 20th-century prose[]

English literature: 20th- or pre-20th-century poetry[]

  • "Hearts and Partners"
  • "That Old Rope"
  • "When the Going Gets Tough"[3]

2004 Anthology[]

The third AQA Anthology was a collection of poems and short texts. The anthology was split into several sections covering poems from other cultures, the poetry of Seamus Heaney,[4] Gillian Clarke, Carol Ann Duffy and Simon Armitage, and a bank of pre-1914 poems. There was also a section of prose pieces, which could have been studied in schools which had chosen not to study a separate set text.

English: Poems from Other Cultures[]

Seamus Heaney

GCSE English students studied all of the poems in either cluster and answered a question on them in Section A of Paper 2. In 2005, Andrew Cunningham, an English teacher at Charterhouse School complained in the Telegraph that the inclusion of the poems represented an "obsession with multi-culturalism".[5]

Cluster 1[]

Cluster 2[]

English Literature: Poetry[]

Seamus Heaney[]

  • ""
  • ""
  • ""
  • "Death of a Naturalist"
  • "Digging"
  • "Mid-Term Break"
  • ""
  • ""

Gillian Clarke[]

  • "Catrin"
  • ""
  • ""
  • "A Difficult Birth, Easter 1998"
  • ""
  • "October"
  • "On The Train"
  • ""

Carol Ann Duffy[]

Carol Ann Duffy

Simon Armitage[]

  • from Book of Matches, “Mother, any distance greater than a single span”
  • from Book of Matches, “My father thought it...”
  • "Homecoming"
  • "November"
  • "Kid"
  • from Book of Matches, “Those bastards in their mansions”
  • from Book of Matches, “I've made out a will; I'm leaving myself”
  • "Hitcher"
  • "The Manhunt"

Pre-1914 Poetry Bank[]

English Literature: Prose[]

2008 Anthology[]

In 2008 the Anthology was reissued without "Education for Leisure" following complaints about its reference to knives and concerns about rising levels of knife crime in schools.[6] In the new Anthology the poem was replaced with a "This page is left intentionally blank" notice. After removing "Education for Leisure" from the anthology the exam board was accused of censorship.[7]

2015 Anthology[]

The fifth anthology was produced for first assessment in 2017.

The anthology includes poems under the heading "Moon on the Tides" and prose under the heading "Sunlight on the Grass".[8] Some of the poems are by authors of poems in the first anthology such as Agard and Armitage.

Poems[]

Modern Prose[]

References[]

  1. ^ ASIN 0435101315, NEAB Anthology: English and English Literature 2000/2001 GCSE (2000)
  2. ^ Moore, Andrew; Justice, Sue (2000). "The NEAB/AQA English Anthology". Universal Teacher. Archived from the original on 2020-11-05. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
  3. ^ Moore, Andrew (2001). "Teachers' Virtual English Department". Universal Teacher. Archived from the original on 2020-01-13. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
  4. ^ "Teachit.co.uk". Archived from the original on 2011-08-20. Retrieved 2009-08-20.
  5. ^ Cunningham, Andrew (2005-12-17). "No prayers nor bells for the finest". ISSN 0307-1235. Archived from the original on 2020-11-17. Retrieved 2019-12-22.
  6. ^ The Guardian (4 September 2008). "Top exam board asks schools to destroy book containing knife poem". Archived from the original on 18 January 2013. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  7. ^ Curtis, Polly; editor, education (2008-09-03). "Top exam board asks schools to destroy book containing knife poem". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 2013-01-18. Retrieved 2019-12-22.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  8. ^ AQA, https://anthology.aqa.org.uk/ Archived 2017-06-03 at the Wayback Machine

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