A Level English Literature
Dates Available
- Week 1: 27 March – 31 March
- Week 2: 3 April – 7 April
- Week 3: 10 April – 14 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 27 March: The Tempest
- Tuesday 28 March: The Duchess of Malfi in relation to The Merchant’s Tale
- Wednesday 29 March: The Gothic Genre: Dracula in relation to The Bloody Chamber
- Thursday 30 April: Hamlet
- Friday 31 March: Measure for Measure
Week Two
- Monday 3 April: Coriolanus
- Tuesday 4 April: Twelfth Night
- Wednesday 5 April: Edward II in relation to Paradise Lost books IX and X
- Thursday 6 April: American Literature: The Great Gatsby in relation to The Grapes of Wrath
- Friday 7 April: Dystopia: 1984 and The Handmaid’s Tale
Weeks 1,2 and 3
The new A level specifications are no longer text specific across all boards and the options are quite broad. We will therefore be offering bespoke four hour courses during this period for anyone sitting the following options:
OCR: Drama and Poetry pre-1800
As well as the options listed above, we are offering:
- Volpone
- The Rivals
- The Rover
- The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale
- The Songs of Innocence and Experience
Edexcel (Pearson): Interpretations of Prose and Poetry
- Relationships
- Identifying Self
- Journeys and War
AQA: Reading for Meaning
- Love Through the Ages
AQA: Texts and Genres
- Elements of the Gothic; Elements of the Pastoral
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