General information

Hi,

It has just occurred to me that I haven't yet provided you with an overview of the course, so here it is!

The exam board we use is Eduqas, which is the English branch of the Welsh Board, otherwise known as WJEC. The exam consists of two papers and there is no controlled assessment.

Paper 1: ·         40% ·         2 hours ·         Section A: Shakespeare. One extract question and one essay question ·         Section B: poetry from 1789 to the present day. Two questions, one of which involves comparison

Paper 2: ·         60% ·         2 hours, 30 minutes ·         Section A: Post 1914 prose/drama. One source-based question ·         Section B: 19th Century prose. One source-based question

Reading List

(please be aware that the list of prose and plays might change as we progress through the course)

For the Shakespeare section of the first paper, we will study:

·         Romeo and Juliet

·         Macbeth

For the poetry section of the first paper, the exam board’s anthology consists of the following titles:

·         A Wife in London by Thomas Hardy

·         Afternoons by Philip Larkin

·         As Imperceptibly as Grief by Emily Dickinson

·         Cozy Apologia by Rita Dove

·         Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney

·         Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen

·         Hawk Roosting by Ted Hughes

·         Living Space by Imtiaz Dharker

·         London by William Blake

·         Mametz Wood by Owen Sheers

·         Manhunt by Simon Armitage

·         Ozymandias by Percival Shelley

·         She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron

·         Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

·         The Prelude by William Wordsworth

·         The Soldier by Rupert Brooke

·         To Autumn by John Keats

·         Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy

Questions about any of these poems could come up in the exam.

For the Post 1914 prose/drama section of the second paper we will study:

·         Lord of the Flies by William Golding

·         The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time play script by Simon Stephens (adapted from the novel by Mark Haddon)

For the 19^th Century Prose section of the second paper, we will study:

·         War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

·         The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

 For the 20^th and 21^st Century poetry section of the second paper, there is no prescribed list as the poems will be unseen, but the exam board recommends using works by the following poets as stimuli:

·         Fleur Adcock

·         John Agard,

·         Moniza Alvi,

·         Maya Angelou,

·         Simon Armitage,

·         James Berry

·         Eavan Boland

·         Wendy Cope

·         Tony Curtis

·         Carol Ann Duffy

·         Rita Dove

·         Jen Hadfield

·         Tony Harrison

·         Ted Hughes

·         Jackie Kay

·         Philip Larkin

·         Liz Lochhead

·         Roger McGough

·         Robert Minhinnick

·         Andrew Motion

·         Grace Nichols

·         Sean O’Brien

·         Seamus Heaney

·         Adrienne Rich

·         Jo Shapcott

·         Owen Sheers

·         Derek Walcott

·         William Carlos Williams

·         Benjamin Zephaniah 

Please note that all of the above texts, with the exception of the poems for the poetry section of the first paper, are subject to change based on how well the pupils respond to them and the availability of resources.