ENGLISH LITERATURE GCE A LEVEL

Course summary

Y12 Unit 1: Aspects of Tragedy (Exam) Close analysis of the tragic genre in two drama texts from different eras. Section A: Shakespeare’s Othello Section B: Miller’s Death of a Salesman. Y12 Unit 2: Literary Genres Section A: Romantic Poetry: A selection of the Poetry of John Keats. Section B: Classic Prose Novels: Either Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbevilles or Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Y13 Unit 3: Texts and Genres: Elements of Political and Social Protest Writing Three sections: • Section A – Analysis of an unseen passage within the Political/social protest writing genre. • Section B – Essay question on single study text (William Blake, Margaret Atwood or Khaled Hussaini) • Section C:- Essay comparing two of the Social/Political protest texts. Y13 Unit 4: Further and Independent Reading Two pieces of independently researched and devised coursework: • A response to a work of poetry of the student’s own choice but linked to a literary theory presented in the AQA Critical Anthology. • A response to a work of prose of the student’s own choice but linked to a different theory presented in the AQA Critical Anthology.