• Studying English Literature gives you a way with words – the ability to understand, analyse, explore ideas, create arguments and express yourself in speech and writing. • Over the two years, you will explore a range of pre-1900 and post-1900 texts, covering drama, poetry and prose. Themes/Units Component 1: Pre-1900 poetry and drama • Study a selection of poetry by Victorian poet Christina Rossetti and compare it to ‘A Doll’s House’ – a play by Henrik Ibsen • Study Twelfth Night – a play by William Shakespeare Component 2: The Gothic • Explore a range of unseen Gothic texts • Compare ‘The Bloody Chamber’, a collection of short stories by Angela Carter to the Gothic classic ‘Frankenstein’ Component 3: Coursework • Analyse Tennessee Williams’s play ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ • Compare Brit Bennett’s ‘The Vanishing Half’ to Carol Ann Duffy’s poetry collection, ‘Rapture’
A grade 6 or above English and English Literature
• Component 1: Pre-19th C Poetry and Drama Exam 40% of course • Component 2: The Gothic Exam 40% of course • Component 3: Coursework NEA 20% of course
About Education Provider
| Region | London |
| Local Authority | Barnet |
| Ofsted Rating | Good |
| Gender Type | Girls |
| Address | Pursley Road, Mill Hill, London, NW7 2EP |
• Studying English Literature gives you a way with words – the ability to understand, analyse, explore ideas, create arguments and express yourself in speech and writing. • Over the two years, you will explore a range of pre-1900 and post-1900 texts, covering drama, poetry and prose. Themes/Units Component 1: Pre-1900 poetry and drama • Study a selection of poetry by Victorian poet Christina Rossetti and compare it to ‘A Doll’s House’ – a play by Henrik Ibsen • Study Twelfth Night – a play by William Shakespeare Component 2: The Gothic • Explore a range of unseen Gothic texts • Compare ‘The Bloody Chamber’, a collection of short stories by Angela Carter to the Gothic classic ‘Frankenstein’ Component 3: Coursework • Analyse Tennessee Williams’s play ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ • Compare Brit Bennett’s ‘The Vanishing Half’ to Carol Ann Duffy’s poetry collection, ‘Rapture’
A grade 6 or above English and English Literature
• Component 1: Pre-19th C Poetry and Drama Exam 40% of course • Component 2: The Gothic Exam 40% of course • Component 3: Coursework NEA 20% of course
