English Language and Literature
Course Description (AQA 7707)
Course Aims:
At KS5, we offer the course ‘English Language and Literature’ a course that allows students to analyse non-fiction and fiction texts as well as complete comparative study of both and through the lens of language levels. There is also the opportunity to complete creative writing as well as NEA in comparing two texts.
Curriculum overview:
Paper 1: Telling Stories (3 hours). Within this paper, you will answer a comparison question on two texts that you have been taught as part of the ‘Paris Anthology’. This will compare how grammatical, linguistic and graphological structures have been used to present aspects of Paris life and culture. You will also answer about how an extract from ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ conforms to the ‘fantasy genre’ as well as writing an analysis of poems in Duffy’s ‘Mean Time’ collection.
Paper 2: Exploring Conflict (2hrs 30 mins) You will recast and rewrite a section from ‘The Great Gatsby’ before writing a critical commentary discussing the grammatical, linguistic and narrative choices that document your choices. You will also answer a choice of two questions about the dramatic set text that you have studied, considering how language choices and dramatic choices have been used.
NEA: A 2500–3000-word investigation comparing how a theme or a linguistic technique is used in a literary and non-literary text (20% of A level)
Texts studied over both papers
AQA Paris anthology- a selection of non-fiction texts based on Paris
Mean Time by Carol Ann Duffy
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Great Gatsby- F Scott Fitzgerald (we teach this text and you will recast it in your exam- rewriting a section from a different perspective in a creative way).
A Streetcar Named Desire- Tennessee Williams
Subject Staff:
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