English Language and Literature

Course summary

As well as studying novels, poetry and plays you'll also explore non-fiction spoken and written texts and have the opportunity to develop your own creative writing. The course focuses on 3 topics: Telling stories - how and why stories are told and the ways language is used to create worlds and convey personal perspectives. Exploring conflict-you'll focus on the way language choices help to construct ideas of conflict between people and their societies. Making connections- you'll choose a literary text and some non-literary material to analyse their linguistic features exploring connections through a chosen theme or idea.