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'Really weird and freaky': Using a Thomas Hardy short story as a source of evidence in the year 8 classroom

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From: Teaching History
Date: 20030601
Author:Woolley, Mary

Can 25 so-called 'low ability' girls access 30 pages of difficult text? Yes, much more easily they can access the tiny, sanitised, made-easy 'gobbets' that they are normally exposed to in the name of 'access'. Mary Woolley makes the point that boring texts are those that tell you only essential things, those that suggest that the purpose of a text is to convey core information. In reality, we sit up and take note when writers tell us the unnecessary. The unnecessary might be the quirky detail that is interesting in its own right, or it might be the detail that the author simply did not have ...

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