English Literature - Year 13 :: Queen Elizabeth High School

A2 English Literature (OCR – F 663/F 664) - Year 13

There are two units at A2 level (Examination texts F 663 and Coursework F664), all taught by two teachers. The coursework represents 40% of the total marks at A2 level (20% of the full A Level); the examined unit is worth 60% and will comprise two essays in two hours ( 30 % of the full A level); both units are examined in May/June of Year 13.

TEACHER 1 Unit F662	TEACHER 2 Unit F662
Half Term 1 (September - October)
Lessons will adopt a thematic approach addressing potential essay topics where possible. These include presentation of women, nature, society, love, the isolation of the individual and attitudes to religion and class Coursework text A - Wuthering Heights - E Bronte	Coursework covers all assessment objectives( A01/A02/A03/A04) Students will be issued details of these and our AFL approach to teaching will make these objectives explicit. For further details see OCR website Coursework text B - Tess of the D’Urbervilles - T Hardy
External Assessment: No Internal Common Assessment: Yes Coursework Deadline this H/T: N/A Field Trips/Visits: No	External Assessment: No Internal Common Assessment: Yes Coursework Deadline this H/T: N/A Field Trips/Visits: Othello

Half Term 2 (November - December)
Continue teaching Text A	Continue teaching Text B
External Assessment: No Internal Common Assessment: Yes Coursework Deadline this H/T: Comparative coursework first draft 14/11/11 Field Trips/Visits: No	External Assessment: No Internal Common Assessment: Yes Coursework Deadline this H/T: Field Trips/Visits: No

Half Term 3 (January - February)
Play Othello	Comparative texts for examination Paradise Lost Book 1-J. Milton Dr Faustus-C. Marlowe
External Assessment: No Internal Common Assessment: Yes Coursework Deadline this H/T: Final draft w/c 2/1/12 Field Trips/Visits: No	External Assessment: No Internal Common Assessment: Yes Coursework Deadline this H/T: N/A Field Trips/Visits: No

Half Term 4 (March - April)
Continue play	Continue comparative texts
External Assessment: No Internal Common Assessment: Yes Mock dates 12/3/12 Coursework Deadline this H/T: N/A Field Trips/Visits: No	External Assessment: No Internal Common Assessment: Yes Mock w/c 12/3/12 Coursework Deadline this H/T: N/A Field Trips/Visits: No

Half Term 5 (May - June)
Exam preparation and revision	Exam preparation and revision
External Assessment: Yes Internal Common Assessment: No Coursework Deadline this H/T: N/A Field Trips/Visits: No	External Assessment: Yes Internal Common Assessment: No Coursework Deadline this H/T: N/A Field Trips/Visits: No

Suggested Course reading list:
Wordsworth editions of Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Wuthering Heights
Collected works of John Keats ( students will be provided with key poems). Keats poetry can is also available on line

Other Bronte Novels including Jane Eyre by C Bronte

Other Hardy novels including Far from the Madding Crowd and The Mayor of Casterbridge

Novels by other Victorian writers including Mrs Gaskell and G Eliot also poetry of Tennyson and Rossetti

Possible extracts only from any of the following:
The Art of Fiction – Henry James
The Illusions of Post-modernism – Terry Eagleton
Postmodernism and Feminism – Patricia Waugh
Montgomery/Durant/Fabb/Furniss/Mills – Ways of Reading, Routledge (978 0415346344)
Malcolm Peet and David Robinson – Leading Questions: a Course in Literary Appreciation,
Nelson (0 174 323379)
Robert Eaglestone – Doing English, Routledge (0 415 28423 6)
David Lodge – The Art of Fiction, Penguin (0 140 17492 3)