The English Literature course offers a liberating exploration into a range of literary texts. Enlighten your understanding and sharpen your critical and analytical skills, whilst shaping your own writing ability. This course is designed to offer adverse learning experience that includes enrichment activities.
The English Literature course offers a liberating exploration into a range of literary texts. Enlighten your understandingand sharpen your critical and analytical skills, whilst shaping your own writing ability. This course is designed to offer adiverse learning experience that includes enrichment activities.
Wood Green Academy is one of Sandwell’s longest-established and highest-achieving Sixth Form Centres.
Course Overview
Entry Requirements
Assessment Information
Progression Route
How do I prepare?
Course Overview
The English Literature course offers a liberating exploration into a range of literary texts. Enlighten your understanding and sharpen your critical and analytical skills, whilst shaping your own writing ability. This course is designed to offer a diverse learning experience that includes enrichment activities.
Paper 1: Literary Genres Covers:
– Exploring aspects of a mainstream literary genre, such as comedy or tragedy, and considering how genres continue to evolve.
– Developing a critical insight into a range of rich and interesting texts, such as Shakespeare’s Othello, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman and Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles.
Paper 2: Texts and Genres Covers:
– Developing an in-depth understanding of political and social protest writing; this area of study will explore the ways in which plot, characters, setting and structural patterns have been crafted alongside an exploration into the ways in which language is used.
– Studying a range of rich and interesting texts such as Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and William Blake’s poetry.
Non-exam Assessment: Theory and Independence Covers:
The non-exam assessment will enable you to gain an in-depth insight into two texts; one a collection of poetry and one prose. Both texts will be analysed in light of different critical theories, using a critical anthology as a starting point.
Course Leader of English Literature
Mr Dale
Entry Requirements
Sixth Form Entry Criteria:
A minimum of 5 9-5 GCSE grades, which must include a grade 5 or above in either English Language or English Literature.
Special Entry Requirements:
GCSE English Literature 6+
Students must be prepared to work long hours outside lesson time to regularly review the topics covered.
English Literature 6
Assessment Information
This course is linear; students will sit all of the A Level exams at the end of the two year A Level course.
Assessment
Topic Area
Duration
Value
Paper 1
Literary Genres (closed book, three sections)
2 hours 30 minutes
40%
Paper 2
Texts and Genres (open book, three sections)
3 hours
40%
Non-exam Assessment
Theory and Independence
Two academic essays each responding to a different text. One piece can be re-creative; the re-creative piece will be accompanied by a commentary.
20%
Progression Route
This course offers a wide range of opportunities, including English teaching, publishing, journalism, writing and the advertising industry. A Level Literature is a facilitating subject and is valued highly by universities.
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