We explore together the chosen set texts plus other unseen materials and develop students’ skills at being able to analyse and compare texts and write cogently argued and effective literary essays. Many lessons will revolve around oral discussions sharing and arguing the class’s ideas and feelings in response to these texts.
Ideally students will have achieved at least a grade 7 at GCSE.
The aim of the course is to develop students’ interest in and enjoyment of English Literature, through reading widely, critically and independently and thus to gain a wider sense of the scope of literary study. We prepare students in four components: drama (assessed in one examination worth 30%), including one play by Shakespeare plus one by another playwright drawn from those selected by the Exam Board; prose (in one exam worth 20%) comparing two prose texts linked by a chosen theme; poetry (in one exam worth 30%), including contemporary texts studied from the set collection Poems of the Decade: An Anthology of the Forward Books of Poetry 2002-2011 and the work of a prescribed individual poet or poetic movement; and Coursework (worth the remaining 20%), which offers students a free choice to compare in a single 3000-word essay two texts not otherwise studied in the course.
About Education Provider
| Region | North West |
| Local Authority | Stockport |
| Ofsted Rating | |
| Gender Type | Co-Educational |
| ISI Report | View Report |
| Boarding Fee | Unknown |
| Sixth Form Fee | £10,545 - £14,592 |
| Address | Claremont Road, Cheadle Hulme, Cheadle, SK8 6EF |
We explore together the chosen set texts plus other unseen materials and develop students’ skills at being able to analyse and compare texts and write cogently argued and effective literary essays. Many lessons will revolve around oral discussions sharing and arguing the class’s ideas and feelings in response to these texts.
Ideally students will have achieved at least a grade 7 at GCSE.
The aim of the course is to develop students’ interest in and enjoyment of English Literature, through reading widely, critically and independently and thus to gain a wider sense of the scope of literary study. We prepare students in four components: drama (assessed in one examination worth 30%), including one play by Shakespeare plus one by another playwright drawn from those selected by the Exam Board; prose (in one exam worth 20%) comparing two prose texts linked by a chosen theme; poetry (in one exam worth 30%), including contemporary texts studied from the set collection Poems of the Decade: An Anthology of the Forward Books of Poetry 2002-2011 and the work of a prescribed individual poet or poetic movement; and Coursework (worth the remaining 20%), which offers students a free choice to compare in a single 3000-word essay two texts not otherwise studied in the course.