English Language and Literature is a very useful course in terms of the skills that you will be developing throughout. The most useful thing that the course will do is to make you a better writer: academically, creatively and analytically your writing skills will be honed which will help you with all of your other subjects and further study immensely. Your skills of close-reading and analysis will also improve. The reason to study this A Level rather than Literature is that this A Level affords a much broader range of texts: digital, media and non-fiction texts as well as traditional literary ones. There is also more of a creative focus in this course.
UNIT 1 Voices in Speech and Writing: Open book (clean copies) 2hr 30m exam 40% You will study ‘Voices in Speech and Writing: an anthology’, a collection of different types of literary, non-literary and digital texts (20th and 21st century) as well as one play. Examples of texts studied One of: A Streetcar Named Desire UNIT 2 Varieties in Language and Literature: Open book (clean copies) 2hr 30m exam 40% You will study A wide range of non-fiction texts on a chosen theme, in preparation for an unseen text response. You will also study two literary texts from a chosen theme. Examples of texts studied The Great Gatsby, Othello UNIT 3 Investigating and creating texts: Assignment one: two pieces of original writing Assignment two: two analytical commentaries 20% You will study At least one fiction and one non-fiction text (free choice). You will then produce two pieces of creative work and two commentaries based on your reading. Examples of texts studied Free choice of texts
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| Region | South East |
| Local Authority | Kent |
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| Boarding Fee | Day Boarding £35,582; Boarding £47,400 |
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English Language and Literature is a very useful course in terms of the skills that you will be developing throughout. The most useful thing that the course will do is to make you a better writer: academically, creatively and analytically your writing skills will be honed which will help you with all of your other subjects and further study immensely. Your skills of close-reading and analysis will also improve. The reason to study this A Level rather than Literature is that this A Level affords a much broader range of texts: digital, media and non-fiction texts as well as traditional literary ones. There is also more of a creative focus in this course.
UNIT 1 Voices in Speech and Writing: Open book (clean copies) 2hr 30m exam 40% You will study ‘Voices in Speech and Writing: an anthology’, a collection of different types of literary, non-literary and digital texts (20th and 21st century) as well as one play. Examples of texts studied One of: A Streetcar Named Desire UNIT 2 Varieties in Language and Literature: Open book (clean copies) 2hr 30m exam 40% You will study A wide range of non-fiction texts on a chosen theme, in preparation for an unseen text response. You will also study two literary texts from a chosen theme. Examples of texts studied The Great Gatsby, Othello UNIT 3 Investigating and creating texts: Assignment one: two pieces of original writing Assignment two: two analytical commentaries 20% You will study At least one fiction and one non-fiction text (free choice). You will then produce two pieces of creative work and two commentaries based on your reading. Examples of texts studied Free choice of texts