Scottish Highers English
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Drama-The Cheviot,the Stag and the Black,Black Oil
Drama-Men Should Weep
Drama-The Slab Boys
Short stories- ’The Red Door’
Short stories- ‘The Telegram’
Short stories- ‘Mother and Son’
Short stories- ‘Home’
Prose-The Cone Gatherers
Prose-Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Prose-Short Stories
Prose-‘The Wireless Set’
Prose-’The Eye of the Hurricane’
Prose-Sunset Song
Poetry-Carol Ann Duffy
Poetry-Norman MacCaig
Poetry-Sorley MacLean
Poetry-Don Paterson
Poetry-Liz Lochhead
Poetry-Robert Burns
Critical Essay-Drama
Critical Essay-Prose: Fiction
Critical Essay-Prose: Non-Fiction
Critical Essay-Film and Television Drama
Critical Essay-Poetry
Critical Essay-Language
Prose : The Bright Spade
Prose: The Trick Is To Keep Breathing by Janice
Prose- A Time to Keep
Prose- Andrina
Hamlet
Men Should Weep by Ena Lamont Stewart
The Slab Boys by John Byrne
Introduction
Chapter Summaries
Plot
Background and Context
Characters
Themes
Writer's Techniques
The Red Door
Mother and Son
The Painter
The Existence of the Hermit
A Voice Spoke to me at Night by Helen McClory
Things My Wife and I Found Hidden in Our House by Kirsty Logan
Andrina by George Mackay Brown
Death In A Nut as told by Duncan Williamson
Carol Ann Duffy
Norman MacCaig
Liz Lochhead
Don Paterson
Imtiaz Dharker
Kathleen Jamie
Thomas the Rhymer (traditional ballad)
Composed In August by Robert Burns
The Bonnie Broukit Bairn by Hugh MacDiarmid
Summit of Corrie Etchachan by Nan Shepherd
Da Clearance by Rhoda Bulter
33 by MacGillivray
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