Component 01: Drama and poetry pre-1900 Learners are required to study one play by Shakespeare which will be assessed in Section 1 of this component. In addition, learners are required to study one pre-1900 drama text and one pre-1900 poetry text which will both be assessed in Section 2. Texts will be chosen from the below lists: Shakespeare play: • Coriolanus • Hamlet • Measure for Measure • Richard III • The Tempest • Twelfth Night Learners study one pre-1900 drama text: • Christopher Marlowe: Edward II • John Webster: The Duchess of Malf • Oliver Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer • Henrik Ibsen: A Doll's House • Oscar Wilde: An Ideal Husband Learners study one pre-1900 poetry text: • Geoffrey Chaucer: The Merchant's Prologue and Tale • John Milton: Paradise Lost Books 9 & 10 • Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Selected Poems • Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Maud • Christina Rossetti: Selected Poems Component 02: Comparative and contextual study There is a choice of fve topics as follows: • American Literature 1880 - 1940 • The Gothic • Dystopia • Women in Literature • The Immigrant Experience Learners will cover one topic and study at least two whole texts in their chosen topic area. They will also have to respond to an unseen text from the topic area studied. Component 03: Non exam assessment The aim of this internally assessed component is to encourage individual study, interest and enjoyment of modern literature. The texts must have been frst published or performed in 1900 or later and at least one of these texts must have been frst published or performed in 2000 or later. Learners are required to study three literary texts. The three texts must include one prose text, one poetry text and one drama text and they will produce two pieces of coursework on these texts. 1. Close reading OR Re-creative writing with commentary. Both of these tasks must be based on one literary text. 2. Comparative essay: This task must be based on two literary texts
Name: English Literature Qualification title: - Qualification type: GCE A/AS Level or equivalent Assessment Awarding - Created 20161117 11:44:47 Updated 20161117 11:44:47
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