English Literature

Assessment

In Year 12, students focus much more on modern day literature (1945 - present day) which has them studying: a prose text, a drama text and a poetry collection Students also take part in our unit, "Texts Across Time", to give them an opportunity to develop reading on a theme of their own interest; for example, The Struggle for Identity, Crime and Punishment, The Gothic, War and Conflict, Representations of Women and Dystopian Fiction. Students will select their own two texts, one pre-1900, and working with a coursework mentor, write a 2500 word academic essay. In Year 13, students first year of the course is based around a thematic study “Love through the Ages”. This has students studying: a Shakespeare play (Othello, The Taming of the Shrew, Measure for Measure, or The Winter's Tale), an Anthology of Poetry, two prose texts (Jane Austen — Persuasion, Charlotte Brontё — Jane Eyre, George Elliot — The Mill on the Floss, Thomas Hardy — Tess of the D'Urbervilles, F.Scott Fitzgerald — The Great Gatsby, EM Forster — A Room with a View, LP Hartley — The Go Between, Daphne Du Maurier — Rebecca, or Ian McEwan — Atonement) which students will compare the themes of.