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Brief Synopsis of Subject

For English Literature GCE Advanced Subsidiary Level (AS) a minimum of six texts will be studied within a programme of wider reading. The full Advanced GCE (A2) will require the study of a further six texts. Together, these will draw on each of the genres prose, poetry and drama, and include the following:

• a Shakespeare play
• work by at least one author writing between 1300 and 1800
• at least one work first published or performed
  after 1990
• at AS, work by at least one author published between 1800 and 1945

Aims of the course:

To encourage AS and A level students to develop their interest in and enjoyment of literature and literary studies through reading widely and independently both set texts and others that they have selected for themselves

To encourage students to engage creatively with a range of texts and ways of responding to them.

Course Content

Style of Teaching and Learning

Schemes of Assessment: Modular

AS students will sit in May their AS module worth 60% of the AS (30% GCE). The Coursework module will be divided into the two separate tasks. The prose study will be completed in the autumn term and submitted at the start of January. The creative writing option will be completed in the Spring term and submitted before Easter. Together they are worth jointly 40% of the AS (20% GCE).

A2 students will be entered for their exam Module worth 60% of the A2 (worth 30% of the GCE) in June. Coursework will be assessed internally in the Spring term and is worth 40% of the A2 course (20% of the GCE).

Units of Assessment

Summary of subject content (WJEC):


AS Module LT1: Poetry and Drama (open text exam). Students will study one post-1900 poet with

a partner poet for wider reading; and one drama post-1990.

AS Module LT2: Prose Study and Creative Reading (coursework). Students must complete an essay on two linked prose texts and study a further prose text to complete a creative writing task with commentary.

A2 Module LT3: Period and Genre Study (coursework). Students will study three linked texts, including at least one poetry and one prose text of any period for a single essay.

A2 Module LT4: Drama and Poetry (pre-1800). Students will study one Shakespeare play and a partner wider reading drama text; and a poet to link to unseen poetry in the final exam.

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