English Language and Literature

Course summary

The AQA English Language and Literature specification is a great choice for students who have enjoyed the creative writing element of the GCSE course, and are looking to extend their study of literary texts in a detailed, grammatical, and exciting way. Students begin this course with an in-depth unit on Language Levels, which provides them with a toolkit for analysing texts in stylistic detail throughout their two-year course. Students then go on to study ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and the Fantasy genre; poetry by either Robert Browning, Seamus Heaney or Carol Ann Duffy; ‘Othello’ as part of the tragic genre; and a collection of mixed-media texts such as blogs, advertisements, autobiographies and many more, based on experiences of the city of Paris.