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"A" and "AS" Level

Some students follow the “A” level course with a “C” grade, but students will find it  much easier if they have at least a “B” grade. It is essential that “A” level students enjoy reading as they need to know, not just the texts, but also the views of the critics on the texts they are studying as well as their historical and cultural backgrounds. Students will be finding out how the writer’s life, background and century shaped what s/he wrote about and how s/he wrote it.

Lower Sixth  students will sit the following AS modules:

AS  MODULE 1:

THE STUDY OF POETRY WRITTEN AFTER 1800 AND THE STUDY OF TWENTIETH CENTURY DRAMATISTS.                      2  hours.

Section A : The study of poetry written after 1800.                                     10%
Frost   Selected Poems     Vintage
Open  book.       

Section B :The study of twentieth century dramatists.                                  10%
Williams   A Streetcar Named Desire          Heinemann
Open  book.    

AS  MODULE  2 :

THE STUDY OF SHAKESPEARE.    1 hour.

Shakespeare   King Lear                                                                                15%
Closed  book. 

AS  MODULE  3 :

THE STUDY OF PROSE WRITTEN BEFORE 1900.   15%

Chosen genre -  the Gothic Novel.  
Shelley   Frankenstein
Method of assessment – coursework.

Upper Sixth  students will sit the following A2 modules:

A2  MODULE 4 :

 RESPONSE TO UNSEEN POETRY AND THE STUDY OF POETRY WRITTEN BEFORE 1770.    2 ½ hours                                      15%                                                              

Section A : Response to unseen poetry.                                                        7 ½%

Section B : The study of poetry written before 1770.                                   7 ½%

Chaucer   The Wife of Bath’s Tale     CUP
Closed book.   

A2  MODULE 5 :

STUDY OF TWENTIETH CENTURY PROSE.              15%

The chosen novel -  Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence     Wordsworth
Method of assessment – coursework.      

A2  MODULE 6 :

SYNOPTIC DRAMA QUESTION.   2 ½ hours               20%
The chosen option – C

Albee      Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?         Vintage                                   10%
Webster   The Duchess of Malfi                         New Mermaids                    10%
Open book.

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