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AS Course Description
The English Literature AS Level aims to achieve the following:
1. develop confident, independent and reflective readers;
2. encourage the use of critical concepts and terminology with
understanding and discrimination;
3. introduce candidates to a range of texts and develop some awareness
of the contexts in which they were written.
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AS Assessment:
Assessment is by two written examinations, and one coursework
essay.
Unit 1: The Modern Novel Cold
Mountain (1 hour) - 1 text, 1 question: closed book examination.
 Unit 2:
Shakespeare
(coursework)
e.g. Anthony and Cleopatra - 1 text, 2000 word essay.
Unit 3: Texts in Context
(2 hours) - 2 texts:
1 Poetry Hardy’s Poetry, 1 Drama All My Sons by Arthur
Miller; 2 questions: open book examination.
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A2 Course Description
The English Literature A2 aims to achieve the following:
1 build on and develop the skills and understanding developed at AS,
enabling students to deepen their study of literature;
2 encourage students to develop as independent critics, responding
individually to texts and other readers’ opinions;
3 use detailed knowledge and understanding of individually selected
texts to explore connections between them;
4 encourage students to appreciate the significance of cultural and
historical influences upon readers and writers.
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A2 Assessment:
Assessment is by two written examinations and
one extended coursework essay.
Unit 4: Texts in
Time (2 hours)
Two texts (Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake
and Othello by William
Shakespeare), two questions, closed book examination.
Unit 5:
Literary Connections (coursework)
One comparative essay on texts selected by students, one text must be
prose, 2500 words.
Unit 6: Synoptic
Unit
The Representation of the First World War
in Literature (3 hours)
Two questions on unseen poetry and prose material written about the
First World War.
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