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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.
Examination Board AQA
Specification Number 7717
Sixth Form > Our Pathways
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.
Examination Board AQA
Specification Number 7717
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.
Mr Dale
A minimum of 5 9-5 GCSE grades, which must include a grade 5 or above in either English Language or English Literature.
Students must be prepared to work long hours outside lesson time to regularly review the topics covered.
| Assessment | Topic Area | Duration | Value |
| Paper 1 | Literary Genres | 2 hours 30 minutes | 40% |
| Paper 2 | Texts and Genres | 3 hours | 40% |
| 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% |
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.
| The Graduate | Charles Webb |
| A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini |
| Rebecca | Daphne Du Maurier |
| Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad |
| Collected Poems | Tatamkhulu Afrika |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| King Lear | William Shakespeare |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens |
| And Still I Rise | Maya Angelou |
| The Major Works | Percy Bysse Shelley |
| Spark Notes | Explore Website |
| The Student Room | Explore Website |
| Study Wise | Explore Website |
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