English Literature A Level
Assessment 2008 - 2010 A Level Syllabus
| Term | Teacher: JSS | Teacher: TD |
| AS | ||
| Autumn 2008 | LT1A - Poems of Larkin and Abse - 40% | LT1B - Mamet's "Oleanna" - 20% |
| Jan 2009 - take LT1 exam - Open Text (clean texts) – 60%. | ||
| Spring 2009 | LT2A - 2 Prose texts Cswk: 'Frankenstein' and one other Gothis novel of choice - 20% | LT2B - Write your own story and a commentary on it. Modelled on independent reading - 20% |
| Summer 2009 | Submit Cswk at end of week 3 – 40%. Retake LT1. Begin wider reading for A2. The Romantic Background; Sophocles' Oedipus | |
| A2 | ||
| Autumn 2009 | LT4A - Blake + Unseen analysis - 30% | LT4B - King Lear and Sophocles’ Oedipus - 30% |
| Jan 2010 - take LT4 exam - Closed text – 60%. | ||
| Spring 2010 | Spring Cswk - Browbeaten Women: Poetry: Chaucer's Merchant's Tale; Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale; Drama: Ibsen's A Doll's House / Shaw Widowers' Houses | |
| Summer 2010 | Submit Cswk at end of week 5 – 40%. Retake LT4 & LT1. | |
| For both AS and A2 the January exam can be retaken in the summer. Each student is taught by two teachers working in tandem for each set. |
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AS texts
Larkin and Abse
Chopin, James, and Poe
A2 texts
"King Lear", Shakespeare
William Blake
"Top Girls", "A Doll's House" and "Oedipus"
EXAMINATION BOARD: WJEC (the Welsh Board)
WHERE IT LEADS
English Literature is available in Blocks 1 and 5 and can be combined with most other subjects. It progresses naturally from the English and Literature GCSEs (there is even a creative response coursework in the new A-level) and will suit anyone who gained at least a B, enjoyed the course and is prepared to read widely and work independently. It is universally recognised as a measure of coherent thought and clear expression, leading on to virtually any degree or career. It is most happily combined with Drama, Film Studies, History, Ethics, or Classics, but accompanies any other subject fruitfully.
ENTRY GUIDELINES
Specialists should have gained a good pass at GCSE and must be prepared to read widely and to make up their own minds about texts.