English Literature

Section A: Modern prose or drama

• 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
• DNA – Dennis Kelly
• DNA: peer pressure and group dynamics
• DNA: responsibility and morality
• Enid (Leave Taking)
• Inspector Goole
• Kathy (Never Let Me Go)
• Leave Taking – Winsome Pinnock
• Leave Taking: identity and belonging
• Leave Taking: mother-daughter relationships
• Meena (Anita and Me)
• Napoleon (Animal Farm)
• Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
• Never Let Me Go: ethics and science
• Never Let Me Go: identity and humanity
• Phil (DNA)
• Unseen modern same-genre extract

Section B: 19th century prose

• A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
• A Christmas Carol: poverty and social responsibility
• A Christmas Carol: redemption
• Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
• Elizabeth Bennet
• 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
• The Narrator (War of the Worlds)
• The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
• The War of the Worlds – H G Wells
• The War of the Worlds: invasion and humanity
• The War of the Worlds: science and progress

Section A: Poetry across time

• Unseen poem (thematically linked)

Section B: Shakespeare

• Beatrice and Benedick
• Lady Macbeth
• Macbeth
• Macbeth: ambition
• Macbeth: guilt and conscience
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Much Ado About Nothing: gender and honour
• Much Ado About Nothing: love and deception
• Romeo and Juliet
• Romeo and Juliet: conflict and feud
• Romeo and Juliet: fate
• Romeo and Juliet: love
• Shylock
• The Merchant of Venice
• The Merchant of Venice: justice and mercy
• The Merchant of Venice: prejudice

AO1 personal response

• Sustained informed personal response

AO2 analysis

• Analysing language, form and structure

AO3 contexts

• Contexts: social, historical, cultural and literary

Comparison

• Comparison between studied and unseen texts

Writing skill (AO4)

• Extended writing about literature