AQA Paris Anthology for English Language and Lit: Analysing Three Historical Texts in the Anthology

This is a thirteen-page worksheet that takes students through three of the texts in the AQA Paris Anthology: ‘Paris Riots 1968’, ‘Letters from France’ and ‘Seven Ages of Paris’. I think ‘Seven Ages of Paris’ and ‘Letters from France’ are particularly difficult for students to access and therefore have included explanations of references in those texts as well as outlining analytical points about the language and including questions that will encourage students to develop that analysis. I have included some explanation of the context (the French Revolution) for ‘Letters from France’ and would strongly suggest studying that text before ‘Seven Ages of Paris’ (although that is the reverse order to their appearance in the anthology). You could work through this in class together with students, give it out as a revision resource or set sections of it as homework preparation.