1. The Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy
Scottish Literature
The Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy

2. Higher English Assessment Overview
Analysis and Evaluation Assessment (Close Reading)
Listening Assessment
Writing Assessment
Talk Assessment
Analysis and Evaluation
Creation and Production
UNIT ASSESSMENT
Higher English Assessment Overview
COURSE ASSESSMENT
FOLIO – 30%
EXAM – 70%
CreativeEssay
Discursive Essay
Paper 1 – 30%
Paper 2 – 40%
Analysis and Evaluation (Close Reading) – 30%
Critical Reading (Scottish Text) – 20%
Critical Essay – 20%

3. Carol Ann Duffy - Biography
Carol Ann Duffy, CBE, FRSL (born 23 December 1955) is a Scottish poet and playwright.
She is Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University,
Duffy was appointed Britain's poet laureate in May She is the first woman, the first Scot, and the first openly LGBT person to hold the position.
Her poetry collections include Standing Female Nude (1985), winner of a Scottish Arts Council Award; Selling Manhattan (1987), which won a Somerset Maugham Award; Mean Time (1993), which won the Whitbread Poetry Award; and Rapture (2005), winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize.
Duffy’s poems address issues such as oppression, gender, and violence, in an accessible language.
Duffy also writes drama and children’s literature, however she is best known for her poetry.