WHY SHOULD I STUDY A LEVEL ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE? Discover a unique approach to English with Language and Literature. Combine your study of novels, poems and plays with blogs, interviews, travel writing and screenplays. Read critically and think creatively; write stories alongside essays, broaden your study and explore a new way to think about English. The course recognises that English is not easily divided between Language and Literature. When studying combined English, you will get the opportunity to investigate texts from a wide range of genres and periods. You will become a confident reader and develop your writing skills in a variety of critical and creative ways providing you with a unique and comprehensive study of English. COURSE CONTENT The two-year course involves the study of a variety of texts: Non-Fiction Texts and Spoken Texts Exploring a range of speeches, graphic novels, TV scripts and letters provides you with a unique perspective on how language is used in real situations and how it is adapted for fiction. Based on your understanding of different styles, you will get the opportunity to write your own creative non-fiction. Literary Texts Studying The Great Gatsby provides you with an insight into how the choice of language combines with narrative techniques to create distinctive and powerful writing. Working on narrative style, point of view, dialogue, characterization and setting enables you to create your own fiction writing. The combined approach of Language and Literature will include the study of a play such as The Importance of Being Earnest, A Streetcar Named Desire or Translations and a collection of poems by poets such as William Blake or Carol Ann Duffy. NON-EXAMINED ASSESSMENT You will have the opportunity to choose your own text to compare with a non-fiction text such as Stasiland, In Cold Blood or Why be Happy When You Could be Normal? You will also produce your own non-fiction writing which could be a blog, newspaper editorial, travel writing or biography.
At least 5 GCSE subjects at grade 4 - 9. Grade 5 GCSE English Language AND Grade 4 GCSE English Literature
Three written examination papers were taken at the end of the second year and a piece of non-examined assessment. Paper 1: (16%) Comparison of an anthology text with an unseen text. Paper 2: (32%) Comparison of poems and analysis of an extract of a play. Paper 3: (32%) Critical discussion of The Great Gatsby and production of a narrative opening. Non-Examined Assessment: (20%) Critical essay comparing a non-fiction text a text of your own choice, and a piece of original non-fiction writing.
About Education Provider
| Region | East of England |
| Local Authority | Essex |
| Ofsted Rating | Good |
| Gender Type | Co-Educational |
| Address | North Hill, Colchester, CO1 1SN |
WHY SHOULD I STUDY A LEVEL ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE? Discover a unique approach to English with Language and Literature. Combine your study of novels, poems and plays with blogs, interviews, travel writing and screenplays. Read critically and think creatively; write stories alongside essays, broaden your study and explore a new way to think about English. The course recognises that English is not easily divided between Language and Literature. When studying combined English, you will get the opportunity to investigate texts from a wide range of genres and periods. You will become a confident reader and develop your writing skills in a variety of critical and creative ways providing you with a unique and comprehensive study of English. COURSE CONTENT The two-year course involves the study of a variety of texts: Non-Fiction Texts and Spoken Texts Exploring a range of speeches, graphic novels, TV scripts and letters provides you with a unique perspective on how language is used in real situations and how it is adapted for fiction. Based on your understanding of different styles, you will get the opportunity to write your own creative non-fiction. Literary Texts Studying The Great Gatsby provides you with an insight into how the choice of language combines with narrative techniques to create distinctive and powerful writing. Working on narrative style, point of view, dialogue, characterization and setting enables you to create your own fiction writing. The combined approach of Language and Literature will include the study of a play such as The Importance of Being Earnest, A Streetcar Named Desire or Translations and a collection of poems by poets such as William Blake or Carol Ann Duffy. NON-EXAMINED ASSESSMENT You will have the opportunity to choose your own text to compare with a non-fiction text such as Stasiland, In Cold Blood or Why be Happy When You Could be Normal? You will also produce your own non-fiction writing which could be a blog, newspaper editorial, travel writing or biography.
At least 5 GCSE subjects at grade 4 - 9. Grade 5 GCSE English Language AND Grade 4 GCSE English Literature
Three written examination papers were taken at the end of the second year and a piece of non-examined assessment. Paper 1: (16%) Comparison of an anthology text with an unseen text. Paper 2: (32%) Comparison of poems and analysis of an extract of a play. Paper 3: (32%) Critical discussion of The Great Gatsby and production of a narrative opening. Non-Examined Assessment: (20%) Critical essay comparing a non-fiction text a text of your own choice, and a piece of original non-fiction writing.