Getting started: Students
Welcome to the InThinking site for English A: Literature!
This site is designed to give you help with all aspects of the literature course. There are many different kinds of pages, covering the nature of the course and its assessment components, knowledge and understanding you need to demonstrate in order to learn successfully, as well as a host of revision materials that will help you prepare for the exams. The pages below will direct you to the most important areas of the site. We hope you find it useful!
The Areas of Exploration: one text, three approaches
The three areas of exploration can be seen as three different lenses through which we can explore literature, lenses which can be applied separately or overlapped, depending on the text and the nature...
Internal Assessment Individual Oral: a guide for students
The Global Issues Individual Oral is a very important component of the course - in part because of the weighting attached to the assessment, but also because of the way it reflects aspects of the course's...
Paper 1: a guide for students
Guided Literary Analysis Alongside our student guide for Paper 2, we are now also developing a similar guide for Paper 1. This first page gives an overview of the examination, the differences between...
Paper 2: a guide for students
Paper 2: a guide for studentsAfter two years with no paper 2 due to the pandemic, it is now back for current first year DP students. To help prepare students - and teachers - for the return of this examination...
Higher Level coursework essay: a student guide
A page and download for HL students...The notes below are designed to give you some guidance with preparing and writing the coursework essay. There are also some links in the text to other areas of this...
'How to... Video Guides.'
This resource area is designed to provide teachers with video material they use live in the classroom, or - and perhaps more likely in this instance - to set for their students to complete at home. Students...
A student guide to literary art
Throughout the various elements of the course, students are of course asked to attend in detail to elements of literary craft - the how as opposed to the what of literary fiction. The following pages...
Revising literary works
You will almost certainly have found yourself giving students advice about the best ways they might consider revising their set works, and this is not always an easy thing to do.Perhaps the most important...
Selected Pages
Getting started: Students
The Art of Literary Writing... Free
In all areas of the course, but perhaps particularly in reference to practice for Paper 1, you will spend significant time...
Getting started: Students
A brief overview of (nearly) everything
Beginning any course can inevitably feel a little daunting, and it is likely that you will feel quite a shift from the learning...
Getting started: Students
The Learner Portfolio - a guide for students
While students will have experience of keeping a record of their work for English, whether in note books or on computer,...
Getting started: Students
A student guide to literary art
Throughout the various elements of the course, students are of course asked to attend in detail to elements of literary...
Getting started: Students
Tone and register
The terms persona, tone or voice are often used interchangeably, to say something about the way/s in which attitudes or...
Getting started: Students
Structure and Form
Another core aspect that you will almost certainly address in some shape or form has to do with the way your poem or extract...