English Language and Literature

Course summary

This course offers Pupils an opportunity to study a range of material both literary texts: poetry drama and novels as well as non-literary texts such as: spoken transcriptions, advertisements, autobiographies, biographies, travel writing, journalism, information texts, instructional texts, letters, reports and speeches. In responding to non-literary texts, learners will be taught to recognise the bias, the moral outlook, the prejudices, attitudes and values of speakers and writers and to be able to analyse how these are conveyed through the use of language. There is a coursework component which involves Pupils completing two pieces of writing: a comparative study of two texts, one of which must be non-fiction and a piece of non-fiction creative writing. There is an enormous freedom here to explore subjects that really interest you.