English Literature

Course summary

The A Level course aims to encourage and develop students’ interest in English Literature, giving them a wide and varied literary experience, covering a range of poetry, drama and prose texts from Chaucer through to modern day writers. The course will require students to compare texts at certain points of the course and, in Year 13 write an extended coursework essay on 2 texts. Students should find that the course enables them to build on the skills they have developed at GCSE, although the standard will be rather more sophisticated.