English Literature

Course Title: English Literature 
Exam Board: AQA
Qualification: GCSE

About the course

Drawing upon the research around the efficacy of interleaving, we have designed the KS4 curriculum so that students are taught elements of the Language and Literature specifications simultaneously: this allows us to constantly revisit knowledge and skills where appropriate and also enables students to recognise the transferability of skills across the curriculum, in particular the ability to analyse writers’ deliberately chosen methods. The Spoken Language Endorsement has been embedded with pupils’ learning of English Language Paper 2 where pupils are able to respond to topical issues. Language and Literature are taught parallel to each other to continue to build upon students’ language skills, complementing the study of their literature texts and our belief that the skills are interlinked. 

How it is assessed

Literature Paper 1:
Shakespeare: ‘Macbeth’
19th Century fiction: ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’

Literature Paper 2: 
Modern text: ‘An Inspector Calls’
Anthology poetry comparison: ‘Power and Conflict’
Unseen poetry