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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdQzVlkT7xFW7DAbrf1l4oA

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/learning/sqa-set-texts/

This may be of some use with exam prep - videos analysing the MacCaig poems. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_rAaRUKcVDjNu_J4CG3xOm6Wz_UmqLDT

Below is a exemplar essay. Remember, if you choose the non-fiction option, the question will be different. Your answer must reflect the question. Choose a non fiction text in which the writer expresses outrage or shock about an issue which you feel is important.                                                                                                                         ...

4. Choose a novel or short story or a work of non–fiction which explores a theme which you find     Interesting. By referring to appropriate techniques, show how the writer explores this theme. Introduction – name of text, writer, genre, brief description, mention of task Setting                      –   Point                                       Evidence – ‘sickly light’, ‘yellow tinfoil’, ‘animal cages’, ‘plank bed’                                      ...

Here are the paragraphs completed after the carousel activity: Orwell uses a list to describe the gloomy atmosphere in Burma. 'We were waiting outside the condemned cells ... like small animal cages.' This emphasises the inhumane circumstances of the prison and how Orwell feels about capital punishment. The writer, George Orwell, goes into great detail when describing the convict to gain the reader's sympathy. He does this by describing the convict's living conditions and physique. For example, he describes the inmate as 'A puny wisp of a man', showing that he has been mistreated and is possibly malnourished. The writer also describes him as having 'vague liquid eyes' suggesting that the prisoner is trying to hold back tears and emotion. Orwell is shocked by the appearance of the dog. He writes that, despite the people being unhappy, the dog is happily wagging its tail and licking the prisoner's face. The writer uses word choice when...

George Orwell – ‘A Hanging’ 1         It was in Burma, a sodden morning of the rains. A sickly light, like yellow tinfoil, was slanting over the high walls into the jail yard. We were waiting outside the condemned cells, a row of sheds fronted with double bars, like small animal cages. Each cell measured about ten feet by ten and was quite bare within except for a plank bed and a pot of drinking water. In some of them brown silent men were squatting at the inner bars, with their blankets draped round them. These were the condemned men, due to be hanged within the next week or two. 2         One prisoner had been brought out of his cell. He was a Hindu, a puny wisp of a man, with a shaven head and vague liquid eyes. He had a thick, sprouting moustache, absurdly too big for his body, rather like the moustache of a comic man on the films. Six tall Indian warders were guarding him and getting him ready for the...

Brooklyn Cop   Built like a gorilla but less timid,                                     thick‑fleshed, steak‑coloured, with two hieroglyphs in his face that mean trouble, he walks the sidewalk and the 5         thin tissue over violence. This morning, when he said, "See you, babe" to his wife, he hoped it, he truly hoped it. He is a gorilla to whom "Hiya, honey" is no cliché.   10       Should the tissue tear, should he plunge through into violence, what clubbings, what gunshots between Phoebe's Whamburger         and Louie's Place.   Who would be him, gorilla with a nightstick, 15       whose home is a place he might,...

Aunt Julia          Aunt Julia spoke Gaelic        very loud and very fast.        I could not answer her —        I could not understand her.   5       She wore men's boots        when she wore any.        — I can see her strong foot,        stained with peat,        paddling with the treadle of the spinningwheel 10      while her right hand drew yarn        marvellously out of the air.          Hers was the only house        where I've lain at night        in the absolute darkness 15      of...

Here is a link to a useful powerpoint on persuasive/discursive writing. It details how to develop ideas for a topic, then it gives you lots of help with writing techniques. http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0ahUKEwiD366ct7_UAhVLBMAKHSETDg4QFggoMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdallison1983.edublogs.org%2Ffiles%2F2014%2F09%2FNational-5-persuasive-essay-2lxnmpp.ppt&usg=AFQjCNEoqy-vooHY5R-4T9UM00ZqPHQe-w&sig2=NTkNCs_na6dvY0AGH6gw1A If you do your own internet search, there are lots more materials available.

Hotel Room, 12 th Floor   This morning I watched from here a helicopter skirting like a damaged insect the Empire State Building, that jumbo sized dentist’s drill, and landing 5           on the roof of the Pan Am skyscraper. But now midnight has come in from foreign places. Its uncivilised darkness is shot at by a million lit windows, all ups and acrosses.   10         But midnight is not so easily defeated. I lie in bed, between a radio and a television set, and hear the wildest of warwhoops continually ululating through the glittering canyons and gulches – 15         police cars and ambulances racing to the broken bones, the harsh screaming from coldwater flats, the blood glazed on sidewalks.   The frontier is never 20         somewhere else. And no...

Black and white film titles. ‘Gran Torino’ theme is played slowly and mournfully on electric guitar and piano. Sounds of birdsong, daylight, long shot of chapel, cars parked outside, church music played on organ. Volume of music increases. Interior, low angle shot of organist, stained glass behind. High angle shot of congregation crowded at front of church. A coffin sits before altar. Tracking shot follows old man as he walks past coffin and photograph of elderly woman. As camera continues to track with old man, he talks to taller, serious-looking, suited man (Walt Kowalksi / Clint Eastwood) who is standing beside the coffin.   OLDER MAN       I'm real sorry about Dorothy, Walt. She was a real peach.   Reverse shot of man almost from Walt’s POV                               ...