Course Content: The A Level English Literature qualification enables you to: • explore and understand a wide range of texts • develop transferable skills valued by universities, such as sustained research and advanced literacy • read widely and, in Component 03, write on a choice of texts you enjoy (these must include drama, poetry and prose texts written after 1900; one of the three texts must be post-2000) • choose to write creatively for the coursework, if you wish. Set texts embrace influential literature drawn from over four centuries of literary history and include: • Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare • A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen • Selected poems by Christina Rossetti • A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams Other texts studied may include Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. Studying A Level English Literature will extend students’ reading and writing skills considerably beyond GCSE level, furthering learners’ abilities to analyse, evaluate and make connections. Students are required to study a minimum of eight texts at A Level, including at least two examples of prose, poetry and drama. The English Department will encourage an appetite for wider reading and other literary experiences through theatre visits, a Sixth Form Book Club and opportunities to help mentor younger pupils. Meanwhile, students must strive to develop their communication skills and keep up with rigorous reading requirements. Provided you enjoy immersing yourself in texts, by the end of the course you will have developed a passion for reading. You will find pleasure and excitement in the study and discussion of literature and will have begun to develop a personal style of writing and speaking enabling you to hold your own in literary circles.
Name: English Literature Qualification title: GCE A Level in English Literature Qualification type: GCE A/AS Level or equivalent Assessment Examination board: OCR H472 Examinations: There are two closed-book examinations at the end of this course. Each examination is 2 hours and 30 minutes long, and each is worth 40% of the A Level: • Drama and poetry pre-1900 (Component 01) • Comparative and contextual study (Component 02) Coursework: Literature post-1900 (Component 03) comprises the remaining 20% of the A Level and is assessed by a 3,000-word coursework portfolio consisting of: • either a piece of re-creative writing plus a commentary (1,000 words) or a close, critical analysis (1,000 words) based on a section of a text • and one comparative essay (2,000 words) based on two studied texts. Awarding Oxford Cambridge & RSA Examinations Created 20161007 09:11:05 Updated 20161216 11:41:35
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