Scottish Highers English
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The Spoken Language Performance
Types of Writing
The Critical Essay
Approaching Drama and Prose
What is Involved in RUAE?
Thomas the Rhymer (traditional ballad)
Carol Ann Duffy
A Voice Spoke to me at Night by Helen McClory
The Red Door
Introduction
Men Should Weep by Ena Lamont Stewart
Preparing for the Exam
Improving your Writing
Writing a Critical Essay
Scottish Texts - Drama and Prose
Types of Questions: Understanding
Composed In August by Robert Burns
Norman MacCaig
Things My Wife and I Found Hidden in Our House by Kirsty Logan
Mother and Son
Chapter Summaries
The Slab Boys by John Byrne
Grammar
Approaching Poetry
Types of Questions: Analysis
The Bonnie Broukit Bairn by Hugh MacDiarmid
Liz Lochhead
Andrina by George Mackay Brown
The Painter
Plot
Poetic Techniques
Types of Questions: Analysing Sentence Structure
Summit of Corrie Etchachan by Nan Shepherd
Don Paterson
Death In A Nut as told by Duncan Williamson
The Existence of the Hermit
Background and Context
Types of Questions: Analysing Punctuation
Da Clearance by Rhoda Bulter
Imtiaz Dharker
Characters
Types of Questions: Analysing Tone
33 by MacGillivray
Kathleen Jamie
Themes
Types of Questions: Evaluation
Writer's Techniques
Making Comparisons
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