The Literature course
Course Design
Course Design Probably the most exciting aspect of the course is the freedom it gives to teachers in terms of planning their course, with texts not organised according to parts or linked to specific assessment...
The Literature course
Overview of the course
The links on this page provide a summary of the most important elements of the course. You can scroll down or click below on the relevant questions: 1. What are the 'Areas of Exploration'? 2. What...
Course Assessment
Individual oral exemplar #4: Out of Africa and Remembering Babylon
The influence of the natural environment on people adjusting to a foreign land This individual oral shows how a student can start with one of the given broad fields of inquiry - in this case 'Science,...
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Individual oral exemplar #3: Miss Julie and Ama Ata Aidoo
This is a strong oral in many respects, which reflects a student taking confident ownership of her chosen Global Issue and its representation in two quite different works. The gender theme is one that...
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Individual Oral exemplar #2: The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea and The Turning
This oral is a good one to play for students as it illustrates many of the qualities that examiners look for, although it is not without flaws that they will hopefully spot. The candidate engages thoughtfully...
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Practising Paper 1
It may be a slightly obvious thing to say, but progress in this course depends more on the acquisition of a set of skills than the accumulation of a body of knowledge. And recognition of this carries...
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Annotating texts
Annotation as an active process Annotating texts is something we expect students to do by and large throughout the course - but when and how are the associated skills actually being taught? You might...
Course Assessment
10 Tips for Paper 1
The following 10 tips are designed to help students adopt a systematic and effective approach to Paper 1, the Guided Literary Analysis. Many of these strategies focus on what happens in that first, crucial...
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Paper 1: sample guiding questions
For Paper 1, students are given two unseen literary passages which can come from any of the four literary forms on the Prescribed Reading List: drama, poetry, prose fiction and prose nonfiction. Students...
Course Assessment
Reading for Setting Free
Along with character, it is very likely indeed that the unseen passage in front of you when you sit Paper 1 will in some shape or form make use of setting. Setting is a rather loose term, of course,...