Component 1 – Voices in Speech and Writing

• Creation of voice
• Comparing voices

Component 2 – Varieties in Language and Literature

• Prose Fiction Extract
• Exploring Text and Theme

Component 1

• 50 marks
• Open book
• 2 hours 30 minutes written paper
• 40% of total A level

Component 2

• 50 marks
• Open book
• 2 hours 30 minutes written paper
• 40% of total AS level

Non-examination assessment

• 60 marks
• 2500-3250 words
• 2 assignments
• 20% of total A level

Students study one drama text:

• All My Sons, Arthur Miller
• A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams
• Elmina’s Kitchen, Kwame Kwei-Armah
• Equus, Peter Shaffer
• The History Boys, Alan Bennett
• Top Girls, Caryl Churchill
• Translations, Brian Friel

• Theme: Society and the Individual
• The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
• Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
• The Bone People, Keri Hulme
• Othello, William Shakespeare
• A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
• The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale, Geoffrey Chaucer
• The Whitsun Weddings, Philip Larkin

• Theme: Love and Loss
• A Single Man, Christopher Isherwood
• Tess of the D’Ubervilles, Thomas Hardy
• Enduring Love, Ian McEwan
• Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare
• Betrayal, Harold Pinter
• Metaphysical Poetry, editor Colin Burrow
• Sylvia Plath Selected Poems, Sylvia Plath

• Theme: Encounters
• A Room with a View, E M Forster
• Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
• The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter
• Hamlet, William Shakespeare
• Rock ‘N’ Roll, Tom Stoppard
• The Waste Land and Other Poems, T S Eliot
• The New Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry, editor Jonathan Wordsworth

• Theme: Crossing Boundaries
• Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
• Dracula, Bram Stoker
• The Lowland, Jhumpa Lahiri
• Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare
• Oleanna, David Mamet
• Goblin Market, The Prince’s Progress, and Other Poems, Christina Rossetti
• North, Seamus Heaney