English Literature

GCSE

What will you study?

Paper 1 Shakespeare: One text from the following:

• Macbeth
• Romeo and Juliet
• The Tempest
• The Merchant of Venice
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Julius Caesar

Paper 1 19th Century Literature: One text from the following:

• The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan
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Paper 2 Modern Text. One of the following:

• An Inspector Calls by J B Priestley
• Blood Brothers by Willy Russell
• The History Boys by Alan Bennett
• DNA by Dennis Kelly
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (play script) by Simon Stephens
• A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• Telling Tales AQA Anthology of Short Stories
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Anita and Me by Meera Syal
• Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman

Will you enjoy this course?

English Literature is studied by all pupils as it complements the English Language
course and many of the skills and some of the texts overlap. There is a high success
level in examinations.

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