ENGLISH LITERATURE PRIVATE COLLEGE TUITION
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English Language A Level & AS Level Courses
English Literature is an engaging and intellectually stimulating subject at Westminster Tutors, led by our Principal, Virginia Maguire. Students are able to choose their own texts according to their personal interests, and they have plenty of opportunity for discussion both on a one-to-one basis and in small groups. Our English Literature students not only explore and analyse texts at a deep level, but also learn to hone their writing skills to produce articulate and sophisticated essays.
Course outline
AS Level English Literature
Component 01Shakespeare and poetry pre-1900
- Shakespeare
- Poetry pre-1900
Component 02Drama and prose post-1900
- Drama post-1900
- Prose post-1900
A Level English Literature
Component 01Drama and poetry pre-1900
- Shakespeare
- Drama and poetry pre-1900
Component 02Comparative and contextual study
- Close reading
- Comparative essay
Component 03Literature post-1900
- Close reading OR re-creative writing with commentary
- Comparative essay
Assesment
AS Level English Literature
Component 01Synoptic assessment
- 60 marks
- Closed text
- 1 hour 30 minutes written paper
- 50% of total AS level
Component 02Synoptic assessment
- 60 marks
- Closed text
- 1 hour 45 minutes written paper
- 50% of total AS level
A Level English Literature
Component 01Synoptic assessment
- 60 marks
- Closed text
- 2 hours 30 minutes written paper
- 40% of total A level
Component 02Synoptic assessment
- 60 marks
- Closed text
- 2 hours 30 minutes written paper
- 40% of total A level
Component 03Synoptic assessment
- 40 marks
- 3000 words
- Non-examined assessment
- 20% of total A level
Set Texts
Shakespeare
Learners study one Shakespeare play:
- Coriolanus
- Hamlet
- Measure for Measure
- Richard III
- The Tempest
- Twelfth Night
Drama and poetry pre-1900
Learners study one pre-1900 drama text:
- Christopher Marlowe: Edward II
- John Webster: The Duchess of Malfi
- Oliver Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer
- Henrik Ibsen: A Doll’s House
- Oscar Wilde: An Ideal Husband
Learners study one pre-1900 poetry text:
- Geoffrey Chaucer: The Merchant’s Prologue and Tale
- John Milton: Paradise Lost Books 9 & 10
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Selected Poems
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Maud
Christina Rossetti: Selected Poems
Drama post - 1900
Learners study one post-1900 drama text:
- Noel Coward: Private Lives
- Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire
- Harold Pinter: The Homecoming
- Alan Bennett: The History Boys
- Polly Stenham: That Face
- Jez Butterworth: Jerusalem
Comparative and contextual study
Learners choose one topic and study two whole texts, at least one must be from the list below:
- American Literature 1880-1940
- F Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
- John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath
- The Gothic
- Angela Carter: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
- Bram Stoker: Dracula
- Dystopia
- Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale
- George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Women in Literature
- Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility
- Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway
- The Immigrant Experience
- Mohsin Hamid: The Reluctant Fundamentalist
- Henry Roth: Call It Sleep
Specification
Tutors
BA (Cambridge)
Jessica Frith
BA (Exeter), MPhil (Cambridge), CELTA, PhD candidate
Joe Mattei
MA (National Film & Television School), MA (Institute of Education, UCL)
Melissa Jones
Hon. Mods. (Oxford)
Virginia Maguire
BA (UCL), CELTA, MLitt (Strathclyde), MA (UCL/ IOE)
Will Coles
BA (Leicester), MA (Leicester)
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