English Literature

Comparison requirement

• Comparison requirement (20-25% of marks)

AO1

• AO1: Read, understand and respond to texts

AO2

• AO2: Analyse language, form and structure

AO3

• AO3: Relationships between texts and contexts

AO4

• AO4: Vocabulary, sentence structures, SPaG

Learning outcomes

• Critical reading (LO 1.2)
• Evaluation of writer's choices (LO 1.3)
• Literal and inferential comprehension (LO 1.1)
• Writing — accurate Standard English (LO 1.5)
• Writing — clear and coherent text (LO 1.4)

Overview

• Component 1: Shakespeare and Post-1914 Literature

Section A: Shakespeare

• Beatrice and Benedick
• Lady Macbeth
• Macbeth (Shakespeare)
• Macbeth: ambition
• Macbeth: guilt and conscience
• Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare)
• Much Ado About Nothing: gender and honour
• Much Ado About Nothing: love and deception
• Prospero
• Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)
• Romeo and Juliet: conflict and feud
• Romeo and Juliet: fate
• Romeo and Juliet: love
• Shylock
• The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare)
• The Merchant of Venice: justice and mercy
• The Merchant of Venice: prejudice
• The Tempest (Shakespeare)
• The Tempest: forgiveness and reconciliation
• The Tempest: power and authority
• Twelfth Night (Shakespeare)
• Twelfth Night: love and disguise
• Twelfth Night: mistaken identity
• Viola (Twelfth Night)

Section B: Post-1914 British play or novel

• An Inspector Calls — J B Priestley
• An Inspector Calls: class and capitalism
• An Inspector Calls: social responsibility
• Animal Farm — George Orwell
• Animal Farm: power and corruption
• Animal Farm: revolution and propaganda
• Anita and Me — Meera Syal
• Anita and Me: friendship and growing up
• Anita and Me: race and identity
• Arthur Kipps (The Woman in Black)
• Blood Brothers — Willy Russell
• Blood Brothers: class and inequality
• Blood Brothers: nature vs nurture
• Boys Don't Cry — Malorie Blackman
• Boys Don't Cry: masculinity and family
• Boys Don't Cry: teenage parenthood
• Coram Boy — Jamila Gavin
• Coram Boy: redemption and music
• Coram Boy: social class and orphans
• Hobson's Choice — Harold Brighouse
• Hobson's Choice: class and Northern industrial life
• Hobson's Choice: power and gender
• Inspector Goole
• Journey's End — R C Sherriff
• Journey's End: friendship and masculinity
• Journey's End: war and trauma
• Lord of the Flies — William Golding
• Lord of the Flies: civilization vs savagery
• Lord of the Flies: leadership and power
• Maggie Hobson
• Meena (Anita and Me)
• Mickey and Edward (Blood Brothers)
• Napoleon (Animal Farm)
• Ralph and Jack (Lord of the Flies)
• Refugee Boy — Benjamin Zephaniah (adapted by Lemm Sissay)
• Refugee Boy: identity and belonging
• Refugee Boy: race and displacement
• Stanhope (Journey's End)
• The Empress — Tanika Gupta
• The Empress: identity and belonging
• The Empress: race and colonialism
• The Woman in Black — Susan Hill
• The Woman in Black: fear and isolation

Anthology: Belonging

• Captain Cook (To My Brother) — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
• Clear and Gentle Stream — Robert Bridges
• I Remember, I Remember — Thomas Hood
• In Wales, Wanting to be Italian — Imtiaz Dharker
• Island Man — Grace Nicholls
• Jamaican British — Raymond Antrobus
• Kumukanda — Kayo Chingonyi
• Mild the Mist Upon the Hill — Emily Brontë
• My Mother's Kitchen — Choman Hardi
• Peckham Rye Lane — Amy Blakemore
• The Émigrée — Carol Rumens
• The Sunday Dip — John Clare
• To My Sister — William Wordsworth
• Us — Zaffar Kunial
• We Refugees — Benjamin Zephaniah

Anthology: Conflict

• A Poison Tree — William Blake
• Belfast Confetti — Ciaran Carson
• Catrin — Gillian Clarke
• Cousin Kate — Christina Rossetti
• Exposure — Wilfred Owen
• Extract from The Prelude 'Boating' — William Wordsworth
• Half-caste — John Agard
• No Problem — Benjamin Zephaniah
• Poppies — Jane Weir
• The Charge of the Light Brigade — Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• The Class Game — Mary Casey
• The Destruction of Sennacherib — Lord Byron
• The Man He Killed — Thomas Hardy
• War Photographer — Carole Satyamurti
• What Were They Like? — Denise Levertov

Anthology: Relationships

• 1st Date – She & 1st Date – He — Wendy Cope
• A Child to his Sick Grandfather — Joanna Baillie
• A Complaint — William Wordsworth
• How do I love thee? (Sonnet 43) — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• i wanna be yours — John Cooper Clarke
• La Belle Dame Sans Merci: A Ballad — John Keats
• Love's Dog — Jen Hatfield
• My Father Would Not Show Us — Ingrid de Kok
• My Last Duchess — Robert Browning
• Nettles — Vernon Scannell
• Neutral Tones — Thomas Hardy
• One Flesh — Elizabeth Jennings
• She Walks in Beauty — Lord Byron
• The Manhunt (Laura's Poem) — Simon Armitage
• Valentine — Carol Ann Duffy

Anthology: Time and Place

• Absence — Elizabeth Jennings
• Adlestrop — Edward Thomas
• Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 — William Wordsworth
• First Flight — U A Fanthorpe
• Home Thoughts from Abroad — Robert Browning
• Hurricane Hits England — Grace Nichols
• I started Early – Took my Dog — Emily Dickinson
• In Romney Marsh — John Davidson
• London — William Blake
• Nothing's Changed — Tatamkhulu Afrika
• Postcard from a Travel Snob — Sophie Hannah
• Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan — Moniza Alvi
• Stewart Island — Fleur Adcock
• To Autumn — John Keats
• Where the Picnic was — Thomas Hardy

Learning outcomes

• Comparing texts (LO 2.4)
• Critical reading (LO 2.2)
• Evaluation of writer's choices (LO 2.3)
• Literal and inferential comprehension (LO 2.1)
• Writing — clear and coherent text (LO 2.5)

Overview

• Component 2: 19th-century Novel and Poetry since 1789

Section A: 19th-century novel

• A Christmas Carol — Charles Dickens
• A Christmas Carol: poverty and social responsibility
• A Christmas Carol: redemption
• Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde — R L Stevenson
• Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (characters)
• Elizabeth Bennet
• Frankenstein — Mary Shelley
• Frankenstein: ambition and hubris
• Frankenstein: isolation and rejection
• Great Expectations — Charles Dickens
• Great Expectations: ambition and self-improvement
• Great Expectations: social class
• Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë
• Jane Eyre (character)
• Jane Eyre: gender and independence
• Jane Eyre: love and class
• Jekyll and Hyde: duality
• Jekyll and Hyde: science vs morality
• Pip (Great Expectations)
• Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen
• Pride and Prejudice: marriage and class
• Pride and Prejudice: pride and prejudice
• Scrooge (A Christmas Carol)
• Silas Marner — George Eliot
• Silas Marner (character)
• Silas Marner: community and belonging
• Silas Marner: redemption and isolation
• Victor Frankenstein and the Creature

Section B: Poetry since 1789

• Pearson Poetry Anthology: Belonging collection
• Pearson Poetry Anthology: Conflict collection
• Pearson Poetry Anthology: Relationships collection
• Pearson Poetry Anthology: Time and Place collection
• Unseen poetry comparison (Component 2 Section B Part 2)

Component 1

• Context: author's life and individual situation
• Context: historical setting, time and location
• Context: literary
• Context: reception across audiences and time
• Context: social and cultural