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A-Level Years 12 and 13

English Literature

Exam Board: AQA

Texts for this A-Level are:

​Paper 1 Love Through the Ages: Shakespeare's Othello, Pre-1900 poetry anthology and The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

Paper 2 Modern Times - Literature from 1945 to the present day: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams and Feminine Gospels by Carol Ann Duffy

Coursework requires you to write a comparative critical study of two texts in a 2,500-word essay.

Assessment

80% examination / 20% coursework

English Language

Exam Board: AQA

Paper 1: Language, the Individual and Society

Section A - Textual Variations and Representations

Section B - Children's Language Development

Paper 2: Language Diversity and Change

Section A - Diversity and Change

Section B - Language Discourses

Non-exam assessment: Language in Action

A language investigation (2,000 words excluding data) and a piece of original writing and commentary (1,500 words total)

Assessment

80% examination / 20% coursework