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An introduction A LEVEL ENGLISH LITERATURE - EDUQAS WHY DO ENGLISH? Pleasure of reading Wide range of texts Stimulating discussion Develop critical and analytical skills Develop your ability to think independently A

An introduction A LEVEL ENGLISH LITERATURE - EDUQAS
WHY DO ENGLISH? ✕ Pleasure of reading ✕ Wide range of texts ✕ Stimulating discussion ✕ Develop critical and analytical skills ✕ Develop your ability to think independently ✕ A qualification valued by universities and employers
YOU ✕ Enjoy reading ✕ Find analysing texts in class interesting ✕ Confident writer ✕ Willing to contribute to discussions
IDEAS AND WORLDS THAT YOU MIGHT EXPLORE ✕ Power, politics, and magic in the Jacobean England ✕ Illusion, desire and the clash of two worlds in the southern states of post-WW2 America ✕ Love, family, time, loneliness, place and much more in 1960s and contemporary Britain ✕ The damaging legacy of Britain’s colonial past in Nigeria
DRAMA - EXAM (2 HOURS, CLOSED BOOK) ✕ The Tempest – Shakespeare ✕ A comparison of A Streetcar Named Desire ( Williams) and The Duchess of Malfi (Webster)
POETRY – EXAM (2 HOURS, OPEN BOOK) ✕ Milton’s Paradise Lost, Book 9 or the poetry of Donne ✕ A comparison of the poetry of Philip Larkin and Carol Ann Duffy
UNSEEN TEXTS – EXAM (2 HOURS) ✕ Unseen poetry ✕ Unseen prose passage from a text written between 1918 and 1939 ✕ Extension Reading throughout the course – + The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald) + The Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck) + A Handful of Dust (Waugh) + Brighton Rock (Greene) + Mrs Dalloway (Woolf) + Brave New World (Huxley) + The Sun Also Rises (Hemingway) + The Age of Innocence (Wharton)
PROSE STUDY – COURSEWORK ✕ One pre-2000 and one post-2000 text ✕ One comparative 2500-3500 word essay ✕ Your own essay title ✕ Texts such as Half a Yellow Sun (Adichie) and Things Fall Apart (Achebe)
BEYOND THE CLASSROOM ✕ Independent reading ✕ Literary Society ✕ Senior Creative Writing ✕ Debating ✕ Theatre trips and Lecture Days
YOUR TEACHERS ✕ Love their subject ✕ Are knowledgeable ✕ Enjoy hearing your ideas ✕ Get good results!
“Studying English literature at school was my first, and probably my biggest step towards mental freedom and independence. It was like falling in love with life.” Ian McEwan, Novelist.

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