English Language and Literature
Corby Business Academy - North Northamptonshire
01536303120
Academy Way, Gretton Road, Corby, NN17 5EB
Course summary

This course offers students opportunities to develop their subject expertise by engaging creatively, critically and independently with a wide range of texts. Using literary and linguistic concepts and methods, students analyse texts in a range of modes and genres, including F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, poetry by Seamus Heaney and the AQA Paris anthology. Students will develop skills as producers and interpreters of language by creating texts themselves and critically reflecting on their own processes of production. The coursework element allows students to explore research-based investigative writing on a linguistic area of their own choice.

Entry requirements

This course is open to students who have achieved a grade 6 in either GCSE English Language or Literature.

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About Education Provider

RegionEast Midlands
Local AuthorityNorth Northamptonshire
Ofsted RatingGood
Gender TypeCo-Educational
AddressAcademy Way, Gretton Road, Corby, NN17 5EB