English Language and Literature
Course summary
The course aims to encourage you to study language and literature as interconnecting disciplines. You will develop your ability to use linguistic and literary-critical concepts and analytical frameworks in commenting on a wide range of spoken language and written texts. Non Fiction: In this component, you will develop your close reading and analytical skills by studying an anthology of non-fiction texts about the diverse and romantic city of Paris. You will learn a new, analytical language, enabling you to write about a range of texts. You might also have a go at writing non-fiction yourself. Fiction: You will study two texts: Atwood’s dark, dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale and a selection of poetry by a poet such as Carol Ann Duffy or Robert Browning. You will learn about why writers make the choices that they do to make their work effective. For example, which settings, points of view and narrative voices they use and why they do so.
Entry Requirements
Checked against your grades — every rule traces to the school's published source.
| Requirement | Rule | You |
|---|---|---|
Average point score | Minimum average point score of 5 | — |
English Language | Grade 6 in English Language | — |
English Literature | Grade 6 in English Literature | — |
As published by the school
You should have achieved an Average Point Score across all your GCSE subjects of 5+ and a grade ‘6’ in English Language and English Literature.
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Assessment
Telling Stories: Exam worth 40% of A Level In this component, you will develop the work completed in Year 12. You will consider how writers produce prose fiction, poetry and non-fiction in a variety of forms. You will focus on settings, voices and genre and how they are used to tell stories. Exploring Conflict: Exam worth 40% of A Level In this unit, you will explore how prose author Khalid Hosseini creates and uses conflict in The Kite Runner. You will be asked to write creatively about this novel. You will also consider how dramatists create conflict through speech in Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire. Non Examined Assessment (Coursework): 20% of A Level This component is your opportunity to be more independent. You will complete a formal investigation, for which you will be required to gather data (with the guidance of staff) and learn about a topic that really interests you. You might like to look at how writers present fiction and non-fiction events differently or how speech is used differently in different contexts.
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