Doom, gloom and GCSE English | Letter
The set books for English literature GCSE make grim reading, says Rachel StottHollie McNish makes a strong point about the content of the current GCSE English literature syllabus (‘Bold, brilliant, thrilling’: leading authors on the novels every school should teach, 5 September). During the Covid pandemic, friends of mine described the challenge of cheering their teenage daughter through GCSEs at that difficult time. Her set books were Macbeth, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and first world…
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