English Literature

Assessment

Literary Genres – Aspects of Tragedy (Paper 1) Study of three tragedy texts; Shakespeare’s Othello, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman and Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles • Texts and Genres – Elements of Crime (Paper 2) Study of three crime texts; Kate Atkinson’s When Will There Be Good News, Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and a selection of Crime Poetry • Non Exam Assessment – Theory and Independence Students choose two texts to study (one novel and a collection of poetry) informed by a study of the Critical Anthology