The boxes from the attic
The community archive received twelve boxes from a house clearance. Most photographs had no dates. Several different people shared the same surname on the few envelopes that were labelled. Some pictures were stuck together, so separating them immediately might have damaged them. The donor could remember the family but not identify every face. Two boxes also contained newspaper cuttings with the page headings trimmed away. We had a great deal of material, but very little information that could safely be attached to a particular place or occasion.
Describe the difficulties of identifying and organising the donated material. You may support your points with brief quotations.
232 exam-style questions on Edexcel A IGCSE English Language 1.2 Section A: Non-fiction Texts, covering 1.2.1 Focus of Section A, 1.2.2 Reading challenging non-fiction in preparation for the unseen text, 1.2.3 Reading substantial and extended texts, 1.2.4 Skills of interpretation and analysis, 1.2.5 Range of non-fiction forms, 1.2.6 Literary non-fiction text types, 1.2.7 Transient texts excluded from assessment, 1.2.8 The anthology as a supporting resource, and 1.2.9 Digital location of texts. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.