COURSE CONTENT Paper 1: Love through the Ages Written exam making up 40% of A Level. Close study of three texts: one poetry, one pre-1900 and one Shakespeare play. Example texts include: an anthology of love poetry, The Taming of the Shrew, Othello, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Great Gatsby, Rebecca and Atonement. Paper 2: Texts in Shared Contexts (Modern texts: Literature from 1945 to the present day) Written exam making up 40% of A Level. Close study of three texts: one prose, one poetry and one drama, one of which must be written post-2000. Example texts include: The Handmaid’s Tale, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Color Purple, The Help, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Seamus Heaney poetry, Sylvia Plath poetry. Independent Critical Study: Texts Across Time Coursework module making up 20% of A Level. One extended essay based on a comparative critical study of two texts. Students choose their own texts based on themes such as: the struggle for identity, the Gothic, satire and dystopia, war and conflict, representations of race and ethnicity or social class and culture.
Name: English Literature A2 (Linear) AQA Qualification title: GCE A Level in English Literature B Qualification type: Assessment Awarding Assessment & Qualifications Alliance Created 20160422 11:27:14 Updated 20161014 09:37:26
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Title: GCE A Level in English Literature B Qualification: GCE A Level in English Literature B Classification: Languages, Literature and Culture