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Key Stage 5 English

Exam Board and Specification

Two English A Levels are offered at Littleover Community School.

The first is A Level English Literature.  This is a thoroughly interesting course in which students not only study a wide range of poetry, novels and plays, but also get to choose their own fiction texts to study as part of their coursework.  For the core texts studied, see below.

The second is A Level English Language.  In this course, a wide range of topics, from individual variation of language to the ways in which children learn to speak and write, is studied.

Exam Board: Edexcel

Topics/Skills Taught: English Literature

Year 12

  • Poetry: Poems of the Decade.
  • Prose: Frankenstein.
  • Play: Doctor Faustus (or other tragedy).
  • Prose: The Handmaid’s Tale.
  • Preparation for coursework.
  • Preparation for Year 13 poetry.

Year 13

  • Shakespeare play: Othello (or other tragedy).
  • Prose: War of the Worlds.
  • Poetry: Philip Larkin (or other collection).
  • Coursework: A comparison of two fiction texts.
  • Revision of topics studied in Year 12.

Topics/Skills Taught: English Language

Year 12

  • Foundation in Language Frameworks.
  • Individual Variation of Language.
  • Child Language Acquisition and Development.
  • Preparation for coursework.

Year 13

  • Variation of Language Over Time.
  • Language Investigation (Pre-release).
  • Original Writing Coursework.
  • Commentary Writing Coursework.
  • Revision of topics studied in Year 12.

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A-level English Language Texts A-level English Literature Texts

Extra-Curricular Opportunities

  • Theatre Trips.
  • Primary School Visit.

Texts Studied

Book

ISBN

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (Vintage)

 

9780099740919

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (Wordsworth Classic)

 

9781853260230

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (Penguin Classics)

 

9780141024448

Poems of the Decade (Faber & Faber)

 

9780571325405

Dr Faustus by Christopher Marlowe (Longman)

this is the study copy

9780582817807

Dr Faustus by Christopher Marlowe (Dover Thrift)

this is the exam copy (without notes)

9780486282084

Othello by William Shakespeare (Longman) – this issue may only be available second hand.

this is the study copy (may only be available second hand)

9780582488830

Othello by William Shakespeare (Wordsworth Classic)

This is the exam copy (without notes)

9781853260186

The Less Deceived by Philip Larkin (Faber & Faber)

 

9780571260126

War of the Worlds by HG Wells (Penguin)

 

9780141441030