GCSEs in English Literature and English Language
(AQA)
| Term | Year 10 | Year 11 |
| Term One | English Literature:
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens |
English Literature:
Lord of the Flies by William Golding, or An Inspector Calls by J.B Priestley |
| Term Two | English Literature:
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Conflict and Power Poetry: Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias William Blake, London William Wordsworth, Extract from Extract from The Prelude Robert Browning, My Last Duchess Wilfred Owen, Exposure Seamus Heaney, ‘Storm on the Island’
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English Literature: Lord of the Flies by William Golding, An Inspector Calls by J.B Priestley
Conflict and Power Poetry: Imtiaz Dharker, ‘Tissue’ Carol Rumens, The émigree Beatrice Garland, Kamikaze John Agard, ‘Checking Out Me History’
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| Term Three | English Literature: Macbeth by Shakespeare | English Language Papers: Paper 1 and Paper 2
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| Term Four | English Literature: Macbeth by Shakespeare | Revision
Macbeth and Unseen revision
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| Term Five | English Language Paper 2:
Viewpoints and Perspectives
Ted Hughes, ‘Bayonet Charge’
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Revision of Lord of the Flies/A Christmas Carol
Revision of Macbeth and Poetry: conflict and power
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| Term Six | Revision of A Christmas Carol and Macbeth for mock
English Literature: Unseen poetry English Language Paper 2 Speaking and Listening
Conflict and Power Poetry:
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GCSE Examinations |
English Literature GCSE (exam board: AQA)
English Literature creates, build and sustains a love of novels, plays and poetry. This GCSE develops students’ ability to read a range of classic literature and engage with the writer’s ideas. Students learn to write analytically about characters and themes. They will learn to consider the historical and political context of their literature and develop their ability to identify effects on the reader. Students will study historical and modern texts, making comparisons across literary works.
Students will study a range of texts such as Shakespeare’s Macbeth, William Golding’s, The Lord of the Flies, Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, Priestley’s, An Inspector Calls and poetry from the Power and Conflict cluster.
Assessment
Assessment is 100% examination:
- Exam one: Shakespeare and the 19th Century Novel (40% of qualification)
- Exam two: Modern Texts and Prose (60% of qualification)
English Language GCSE (exam board AQA)
English language focuses on developing literacy skills: reading, writing, speaking and listening. This GCSE develops students’ ability to become critical, fluent readers, effective and coherent writers and articulate communicators. Students will use and explore language in different contexts, and for different purposes Students will have opportunities to write creatively and demonstrate their discussion and formal presentations.
Students will sit two examinations which assess both their reading and writing skills. A range of unseen fiction and non-fiction texts from 19th, 20th and 21st centuries will be provided in the examinations. Students will need to show a range of reading skills including comprehension, inference, summary, analysis and evaluation. In addition, students will be required to produce extended pieces of writing which will include narrative or descriptive piece as well as transactional writing such as a letter or a newspaper article. In both the reading and writing sections of the examinations, students’ spelling, punctuation and grammar will be assessed.
Assessment
Assessment is 100% examination:
- Exam one: Reading and writing skills (50% of qualification)
- Exam two: Reading and writing skills (50% of qualification)