English Literature at ALevel
English Literature Course
A English Literature is a two year course.
The awarding body (exam board) is OCR.
Recommended Editions to buy for Year 12
‘Twelfth Night’, The Arden edition and York Notes advanced
‘The History Boys’,
‘’The Merchant’s Prologue and Tale,’ by Geoffrey Chaucer. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-04631-2.
‘The Merchant’s Prologue and Tale,’ York Notes Advanced
‘Nineteen Eighty Four,’Penguin Classics (3 Jan. 2013)ISBN-10: 0141393041
‘Nineteen Eighty Four’ York Notes Advanced
Recommended Editions to buy for Year 13
‘The Kite Runner,’ published by Bloomsbury, ISBN-10 0747566534
‘The Kite Runner,’ York Notes Advanced, ISBN 978-1-4082-1729-0
‘Kindertransport,’ published by Nick Hern Books, ISBN 978-1-85459-527-0
‘The Duchess of Malfi,’ Arden Early Modern Drama Edition, ISBN978 1904271512
‘The Duchess of Malfi,’ York Notes Advanced
‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’ York Notes Advanced.
‘The Handmaids Tale,’ Vintage; New Ed edition (5 July 1996)ISBN-10: 0099740915
NB. You will need to have purchased all texts by September.
Equipment
In class for every lesson you will need:
- An A4 ring binder with file dividers.
- A booklet of A4 lined writing paper which is hole-punched and margined.
- The Concise Oxford English Dictionary – Oxford University Press, H.W. Fowler, FG.Fowler (authors), Editor: Judy Pearsall. ISBN 0198610475. Also available on £13.20
- A set of highlighter pens.
At home you will need:
- An A4 lever arch folder in which to store worksheets etc.
- The Concise Oxford Thesaurus – Oxford University Press, Maurice Waite (author). ISBN 019860453X - £13.00.
A Level English Literature: Summer Tasks
It is essential that this work be completed to ensure a confident, well-informed start to the course.
Task 1: Read at least one of the following fiction texts (these have all been selected for their relevance to your course) and write a review and upload to Canvas. You must be prepared to deliver a presentation on your chosen text to your class in one of your first English lessons in September. In your review you should: briefly outline the story; consider major themes and how they are presented and comment on style
Texts:
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Iron Heel by Jack London
The Running Man by Richard Bachman
Armageddon’s Children by Terry Brooks
The Chysalids by John Wyndham
The Children of Men by PD James
The Time Machine H G Wells
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
The Wind Up Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Logan’s Run by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson
Article 5 by Kristen Simmons
The Drowned World by J G Ballard
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
The Republic by Plato
Utopia by Sir Thomas More
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
Task 2: Read one of the above texts. Research and produce a factsheet on one of the texts you have read.
Task 3: Shakespeare research on the following areas:
Elizabethan court life
The Globe Theatre
Fashion and theatre costume
12th Night (the festival)
Gender roles during Shakespeare’s era
Explore the period using the following websites:
Task 4: Go to the theatre and see a play – any play!
Have a great summer!
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