English Language and Literature

Course summary

As well as being interesting in its own right, English Language and Literature as a subject is widely accepted as an excellent qualification for going on to a variety of further education courses or straight into employment. The variety of assessment styles used, such as re-creative writing, commentary writing, discursive essays and research based investigative writing, allow you to develop a wide range of analytical and written skills. English Language & Literature at A Level is a course which combines the study of language and literature. • At A Level you will be exploring the idea of Telling Stories in a novel, a collection of poetry and an anthology of non-fiction (spoken and written texts with the theme of Paris). You will explore the idea of Conflict in a further novel and a Shakespeare play. You will also transform texts into other written genres/forms and produce commentaries on the choices you make as the writer. You will also continue to study a wide range of other texts across a range of written and spoken genres. • In Year 13 you will also produce a 2500-3000 word investigation of the connections between literary and non-literary texts (for example ‘A comparison of openings in a novel and an autobiography’ or ‘An exploration of speech features in literature and in real-world communication’).