AQA Paper 2 texts: The Unknown

This booklet has a selection of non-fiction texts for comparison, based on the requirements for the new AQA English Language exam.

The texts are as follows:
• Dracula
• Frankenstein
- these are small extracts to be used as an introduction to the ‘unknown’.

• Source A: Bigfoot: Man-Monster or Myth?
• Source B: The Writings of David Thompson, Volume 2: The Travels, 1848

• Source A: The Visitor
• Source B: Haunted Houses (1800)

• Source A: Adapted from Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle’s “The Edge of the Unknown” (1930)
• Source B: Adapted from Discovery Channel News, Oct 21st, 2011

• Source A: Excerpt taken from The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences by Sir Frederick Treves
• Source B: Welcome to Gibtown, the last ‘freakshow’ town in America

• Source A: Being buried alive? It’s even scarier than you think: Just ask the Huddersfield Houdini who nearly died trying this week
• Source B: Miraculous Circumstance