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A LEVEL ENGLISH LITERATURE - EDUQAS WHY DO ENGLISH? Pleasure of - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
A LEVEL ENGLISH LITERATURE - EDUQAS WHY DO ENGLISH? Pleasure of - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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
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YOU
✕ Enjoy reading ✕ Find analysing texts in class interesting ✕ Confident writer ✕ Willing to contribute to discussions
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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
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DRAMA - EXAM (2 HOURS, CLOSED BOOK)
✕ The Tempest – Shakespeare ✕ A comparison of A Streetcar Named
Desire (Williams) and The Duchess of Malfi (Webster)
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POETRY – EXAM (2 HOURS, OPEN BOOK)
✕ Milton’s Paradise Lost, Book 9 or the poetry
- f Donne
✕ A comparison of the poetry of Philip Larkin
and Carol Ann Duffy
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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)
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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)
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BEYOND THE CLASSROOM
✕ Independent reading ✕ Literary Society ✕ Senior Creative Writing ✕ Debating ✕ Theatre trips and Lecture Days
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YOUR TEACHERS
✕ Love their subject ✕ Are knowledgeable ✕ Enjoy hearing your ideas ✕ Get good results!
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“Studying English literature at school was my first, and probably my biggest step towards mental freedom and
- independence. It was like falling in love