Year 12 English Literature

Year 12 English Literature

Dates Available

• Week 1: 30 March – 3 April
• Week 2: 6 April – 10 April
• Week 3: 13 April – 17 April

Boards

All boards

Length of Course

8 hour seminars or 4 hour seminars (where advertised)

Times

9am to 6pm daily

The texts offered are selected on the basis of popularity and difficulty from those set by all three examination boards. Text seminars will be one day in length. Such intense immersion over the course of the day encourages full ownership of the texts studied. The morning session will be devoted to developing an understanding of the respective text’s key themes, putting the text in its historical context and providing character studies. The afternoon session will include the careful analysis of exam papers, their formats and their rubric. Attention will be paid to the context options, where appropriate, and the seminars will conclude with the planning out of answers to past and future examination questions.

The timetable will be as follows:

Week One

• Monday 30 March: The Tempest
• Tuesday 31 March: Hamlet
• Wednesday 1 April: The Great Gatsby
• Thursday 2 April: The Homecoming (Pinter)
• Friday 3 April: The Merchant’s Tale

Week Two

• Monday 6 April: Measure For Measure
• Tuesday 7 April: Twelfth Night
• Wednesday 8 April: Streetcar Named Desire
• Thursday 9 April: 1984 (Orwell)
• Friday 10 April: Paradise Lost books IX & X

Week Three

• Monday 13 April: Coriolanus
• Tuesday 14 April: Richard III
• Wednesday 15 April: The History Boys (Bennett)
• Thursday 16 April: Mrs Dalloway (Woolf)
• Friday 17 April: The Bloody Chamber (Carter)

Other texts may well be available on request, so please do not hesitate to get in touch with one of our Course Directors to discuss your requirements.