Year 13 English Curriculum Plan
A-Level English Literature Curriculum Plan
Overview
The English Department follows the AQA course for A-Level English Literature (Specification B). The course is taught in 9 lessons per fortnight. Three teachers (NAW, FW and KLM) teach three lessons per fortnight. In choosing texts for coursework and examination, the Department endeavours to engage the students' interest, while making work rich and academically challenging for all, yet still accessible for the less able.
For detailed information about the English Literature Specification, please go to the AQA website (www.aqa.org.uk) remembering that the course being studied isA-Level English Literature (Specification B).
Unit 3 (LITB3): Texts and Genres
The Department has decided to study Elements of Pastoral.
Texts being studied:
William Blake - Songs of Innocence and Experience
Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Dennis Potter - Blue Remembered Hills
Post 1945 Poetry from the AQA Anthology
To be assessed by 2 hour written examination at the end of the A2 course.
Unit 4 (LITB4): Further and Independent Reading
Texts being studied:
Arthur Miller - A View from the Bridge
(in conjunction with critical material issued by AQA)
Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot
Cormac McCarthy - The Road
To be assessed by two coursework essays. The comparative essay should be
1500 - 200 words in length while the Miller essay should be 1200-1500 words long.
(Internally assessed and externally moderated)
Year 13 Curriculum Plan
Autumn Term
NAW - Songs of Innocence & Experience
KLM - Comparative Coursework
FW - A View from the Bridge Coursework (focusing on Feminism or Marxism)
Spring Term
NAW - Songs of Innocence & Experience & Blue Remembered Hills
KLM - Completion of coursework & Poetry Anthology
FW - Completion of Coursework & Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Summer Term One
All teachers - Preparation for Elements of Pastoral paper.
All elements to be taught in accordance with the AQA Specification B requirements for English Literature (www.aqa.org.uk)
