English Literature - A level

Course summary

This course is ideally suited to those students who love to lose themselves in a good book! Are you an avid reader? Love to escape into another world where anything is possible? Then English Literature is the subject for you. Favoured by top universities, studying this course shows that you are an independent learner and a skilled analyst; literature is a great choice of course. This course enriches your appreciation of literary texts by giving you the opportunity to read a variety of genres in close detail, discussing different ways of interpreting texts and investigating the ways in which poems, plays, novels and short stories are illuminated by their cultural and historical contexts. English Literature develops your skills of analysis, debate, and imaginative thinking as well as the quality of your written expression. This course will cover: Aspects of Tragedy (exam) Othello by William Shakespeare Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller Selection of poetry by John Keats Elements of social and protest writing (exam) The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Selection of poetry by William Blake Unseen passage Independent Study (NEA)