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GCE English Literature A for exams from June 20<strong>14</strong> onwards (version 1.4)3.1 Unit 1 LTA1 – Texts in ContextIntroductionThe aim of this unit is to encourage:• wide reading within the chosen option. This willbe across all three genres, across time and acrossgenders• close reading of a poetry text.The context question in Unit 1 is central to the wholeAS course. It invites candidates to use appropriatereferences to their reading for the whole course intheir response to a short, unprepared non-fictionprose extract, synthesising their knowledge andunderstanding of their wide reading within the sharedcontext. Learning how to apply these skills to anunprepared text provides an appropriate foundationfor the skills required in Unit 3 of A2.ContentCandidates will choose one of the following options:• Victorian Literature• World War One Literature• The Struggle for Identity in ModernLiterature(LTA1A)(LTA1B)(LTA1C)This unit will examine one set poetry text chosenfrom the list below and three texts covering all threegenres as wider reading. These three texts may besupplemented with a collection of relevant extractsand shorter pieces of writing.Suggested texts for wider reading are providedfor each option at the end of Section 3 in thisspecification. Alternative texts may be used for widerreading, with the prior approval of the consortiumadviser.Set Texts(* denotes post-1990)Option APoetryChoose one of:Victorian LiteratureSelected Poems John Clare (Everyman)Selected Poems The Brontës ed. Norris (Everyman)Selected Poems Alfred, Lord Tennyson ed. Baron(Everyman)Option BPoetryChoose one of:The War Poems ofWilfred OwenScars Upon My HeartWorld War One Literatureed. Stallworthy(Chatto and Windus)ed. Reilly (Virago)The Oxford Book of War ed. StallworthyPoetry: (Oxford) pp.160 – 225Option CPoetryChoose one of:And Still I RiseFeminine GospelsSkirrid Hill*The examinationThe Struggle for Identity inModern LiteratureMaya Angelou (Virago)Carol Ann DuffyOwen Sheers (Seren)The examination will take the form of a 2 hourexamination paper. The paper will consist of twosections and candidates will answer one questionin each section. The paper will be marked out of 90.Candidates may bring their set poetry text into theexamination room. This text should be a clean text,that is, free from annotation.Section A Contextual Linking 45 marksThere will be one compulsory question in this section.A short extract related to the area of study (froma work of criticism, diary, letter, biography, culturalcommentary, for example) will be printed. Candidateswill then be invited to link all their reading in theirchosen area of Literature to the focus of the givenpassage.Section B Poetry 45 marksThere will be a choice of two questions on each setpoetry text. Candidates answer one question. One ofthe two questions will foreground one particular poemand its relation to the whole text, the other will providea view about the poems for candidates to discuss.37
GCE English Literature A for exams from June 20<strong>14</strong> onwards (version 1.4)3.2 Unit 2 – LITA2 Creative Study3IntroductionIn Unit 2 as in Unit 1, candidates and teacherschoose texts within the chosen option. The two textschosen for study in this unit form part of a coherentselection of texts. They may also be used in theresponse to question 1 on Unit 1. Similarly, widerreading in drama may be used in the courseworkdrama task.In this unit, candidates will have opportunitiesfor the exploration of creative interpretations, fortransformational writing, and for tracing connectionsbetween texts.ContentThis unit is assessed by means of a courseworkportfolio. Candidates should select one prose textand one drama text. The coursework folder willcontain two pieces of writing; one will be on theselected prose text and the other will be on theselected drama text. The two pieces of work shouldbe 2000-2500 words in total. The texts should bechosen from the list below. Alternative texts maybe used with the prior approval of the consortiumadviser.Text choices (which will last for the life of the option)are:(* denotes post-1990)A Victorian LiteratureProseCharlotte BrontëEmily BrontëJane EyreWuthering HeightsA.S. Byatt Possession *Joseph ConradCharles DickensGeorge EliotJohn FowlesThomas HardyHeart of DarknessHard TimesMiddlemarchThe French Lieutenant’sWomanTess of the D’UrbervillesMatthew Kneale English Passengers *Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian GrayJ. G. Farrell The Siege of KrishnapurDramaOscar WildeHenrik Ibsen (ed. Watts)A Woman of NoImportanceA Doll’s HouseTom Stoppard Arcadia *B World War One LiteratureProseSusan HillStrange MeetingSebastian Faulks Birdsong *Pat Barker Regeneration *Pat Barker The Eye in the Door *Pat Barker The Ghost Road *Frederic ManningHer Privates WeSebastian Barry A Long, Long Way *Siegfried SassoonHelen Zenna SmithRebecca WestDramaR.C. SherriffPeter WhelanStephen MacDonaldMemoirs of an InfantryOfficerNot So QuietReturn of the SoldierJourney’s EndThe Accrington PalsNot About HeroesC The Struggle for Identity in ModernLiteratureProseMargaret AtwoodThe Handmaid’s TaleAngela Carter Wise Children *Kiran DesaiRoddy DoyleMichael Frayn Spies *Hullaballoo in theGuava Orchard *The Woman WhoWalked into Doors *David Guterson Snow Falling on Cedars *Jackie Kay Trumpet *Toni Morrison Beloved *D.B.C. Pierre Vernon God Little *Alice WalkerDramaCaryl ChurchillBrian FrielWole SoyinkaThe Color PurpleTop GirlsMaking HistoryDeath and the King’sHorsemanThe coursework folder will consist of two pieces ofwork, of 2000-2500 words in total, as follows.8
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