Key Stage 4 English

Exam Board and Specification

GCSE students at Littleover Community School study two GCSEs in their English lessons: Language and Literature. Lessons will be shared amongst these subjects. Though the content may be different, a lot of the skills are transferable: the ability to phrase and structure ideas cogently; accuracy of spelling, punctuation and grammar; close textual analysis; making comparisons between texts; and formation of interpretations. For copies of texts studied, see below.

Exam board: Edexcel

Topics/Skills Taught

Year 10

19th Century Novel
Shakespeare Play
Unseen Fiction Extract Analysis
Imaginative Writing
Transactional Writing
Unseen Non-fiction Extracts Analysis
First Half of Poetry Anthology

Year 11

Modern Play
Spoken Language Endorsement Presentation
Second Half of Poetry Anthology
Unseen Poetry
Revision of other Literature Texts
Revision of Unseen Fiction Extract Analysis
Revision of Imaginative Writing
Revision of Transactional Writing
Revision of Unseen Non-fiction Extract Analysis

Extra-Curricular Opportunities

Production visits.
Themed writing competitions.

Copies of the Literature Texts

We will provide all pupils with copies of the texts to study. However, as these will be used and reused by lots of year groups, we cannot allow them to be annotated (except the poetry anthology).

Below are details of the editions used in school if you are interested in purchasing them.

Shakespeare

Macbeth (Oxford School Shakespeare)
ISBN: 9780198324003

Romeo and Juliet (Oxford School Shakespeare)
ISBN: 9780198321668

Post-1914 Literature

An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley (Heinemann)
ISBN: 9780435232825

Blood Brothers by Willy Russell (Methuen Student Edition)
ISBN: 9780413695109

19th-Century Novel

Silas Marner by George Eliot (Wordsworth Classics)
ISBN: 9781853262210

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (Wordsworth Classics)
ISBN: 9781853261213

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (Collins Classics)
ISBN: 9780007351008