Part of a series designed to meet the wider reading needs of those studying for GCSE English, this collection presents students with a wide range of autobiographical and semi-autobiographical material. Special activities are presented in a section at the end of the text. Background information on each of the featured writers is provided, as well as ideas for discussion, charted events, dramatization and script-writing activities, written reports and an analysis of style and language. There are suggestions for coursework in an "Extended Activities" section, and an extensive booklist is also provided.

 

This book is part of a book series called Oxford Literature Resources .

There are 158 pages in this book. This book was published 1991 by Oxford University Press .

John Foster is Britain's leading author in the field of Citizenship and PSHE.

This book has the following chapters: FIRST MEMORIES; Me and My History; Pinecones; Starting School; Earliest Memories; A DAY I'LL NEVER FORGET; Going to the Pantomine; Jumping Big Sui; The Miser; Christmas Eve; The Washout; The All-American Slurp; A CAT, AN ELEPHANT AND A BILLYCART; Blackbird; An Elephant and Us; The End of the Billycart Era; SCHOOLDAYS; Sport, Shmort; The Examination; Sam's Story; A Day in the Life of . ; THAT'S HOW IT IS; Life for a Young Asian Girl; A Day in the Life; The Disco Scene; Mentally handicapped; Six Days that Changed my Teenage Life; GROWING POINTS; It Happened to Me; Fashion; Playing the Blues; Grandmother; Huddersfield Road; IN MY OPINION; Talking Cockney; Vegetarianism; We Are Not a Sub-species; ACTIVITIES; EXTENDED ACTIVITIES; WIDER READING