English - Key Stage Five

A-level English Literature (AQA specification A)

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Unit 1:  Texts in Contexts - 30%

2 hour written examination (open book)

LITA1C: The Struggle for Identity in Modern Literature

Unit 2: Creative Study - 20%

Coursework

Two tasks – one on prose text and one on drama text.

2000-2500 words in total.

Unit 3: Reading for Meaning - 30%

2 hour 30 minutes written examination (closed book)

Two questions involving unprepared extracts and wider reading on the unit theme of Love Through the Ages.

Unit 4: Extended essay and Shakespeare study - 20%

Coursework

Extended comparative essay of 3000 words.

 

A-level English Language (AQA specification A)

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ENGA1:  Seeing through language -  30%

2 hour written examination.

Section A – Language analysis task

Section B – Language development essay

ENGA2: Representation and language -  20%

Coursework.

Investigation into representation of an individual, group, event, institution.

Production task plus commentary

2000-2500 words in total.

ENGA3: Language explorations -  30%

2 hour 30 minute examination.

Language Variation and Change task and Language Discourses task.

ENGA4: Language Investigations and Interventions - 20%

Coursework.

One spoken language investigation task plus one language intervention task.

3000-3750 words in total.