AQA Anthology

Carol Ann Duffy.

The Assessment and Qualifications Alliance (the AQA) has produced Anthologies for GCSE English and English Literature studied in English schools.

2004 Anthology

The original 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,[1] 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.

Cluster 1

Cluster 2

Criticism

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".[2] After removing "Education for Leisure" from the anthology in 2008 (after a complaint made by Pat Schofield, an external examiner at Lutterworth College, Leicestershire), the exam board was accused of censorship.[3]

English Literature: Poetry

Seamus Heaney

Gillian Clarke

Carol Ann Duffy

Simon Armitage

Pre-1914 Poetry Bank

English Literature: Prose

2015 Anthology

The third 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".[4] Some of the poems are by authors of poems in the first anthology such as Agard and Armitage.

Poems

Modern Prose

References

  1. ↑ Teachit.co.uk
  2. ↑ Telegraph.co.uk
  3. ↑ Guardian.co.uk
  4. ↑ AQA, https://anthology.aqa.org.uk/
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