English Language and Literature

Course summary

Paper 1 - Remembered Places - the representation of place (AQA Anthology) - Imagined Worlds - point of view and genre in prose (Shelley / Stoker / Atwood) - Poetic Voices - the forms and functions of poetic voice (Donne / Browning / Duffy / Heaney) Paper 2 - Writing about Society - the role of the individual in society, and re-creative writing based on set texts which could include The Great Gatsby or The Kite Runner - Critical commentary - evaluating own writing - Dramatic Encounters - conflict in drama which could include Othello or A Streetcar Named Desire