ENGLISH LITERATURE PRIVATE COLLEGE TUITION
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English Language A Level & AS Level Courses
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
- 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
Teachers
BA (Cambridge)
Richard Searby
BA (Exeter)
Sophie Harrold
BA (Cambridge), MA (King’s), PGCE (Goldsmith’s)
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