English Literature

Course summary

The course follows the AQA English literature B Specification. A range of texts will be studied. Three texts for Paper 1 (Literary Genres - Tragedy) to include one Shakespeare, another drama text and one further text. Three texts for Paper 2 (Texts and genres - political writing) to include one post-2000 prose text; one poetry and one pre-1900 text. The Non Examination Assessment - coursework (Theory and Independence) requires the production of two essays, one on poetry and one on prose.