English Literature

Assessment

This course encourages students to explore the relationships that exist between texts and the contexts within which they are written, received and understood. There are three assessed components to the course: 1. Love through the ages » This involves the study of a Shakespeare play, a poetry anthology and a prose text. All of these texts present different aspects of love through the ages and are examined via a three-hour paper. Also examined on the paper will be a response to unseen poetry (40% of A level). 2. Texts in shared contexts: Literature from 1945 – to date » Students explore aspects of literature connected through a period of time. They study a poetry text, a play and a novel which will be examined via a paper of two and a half hours (40% of A level). 3. Coursework » This involves a comparative study of two texts. Students will produce an extended essay of about 2500 words (20% of A level).