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GCSE English Literature
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| Teaching from: | September 2015 |
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| Exams from: | June 2017 |
| QAN code: | 601/4447/6 |
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AQA GCSE English Literature : Past Papers
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In Texts across time, students write a comparative critical study of two texts on a theme of their choice. Possible themes include, but are not limited to: the struggle for identity. crime and punishment. minds under stress. nostalgia and the past. the Gothic.
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1.1 Why choose AQA for GCSE English Literature. 1.2 Support and resources to help you teach. Specification at a glance. Subject content. 3.1 Shakespeare and the 19th-century novel. 3.2 Modern texts and poetry. 3.3 Skills. Scheme of assessment. 4.1 Aims and learning outcomes.
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Coursework titles must include: The full titles of both texts and the names of their authors. A focus for the comparison-we advise using a single focus such as ‘the presentation of power’ rather than 2 or more concepts such as ‘religion and power’.
Most A Level syllabi in the UK, e.g. AQA, require you to write a comparative essay and a critical essay. For the critical essay, symbolism/ metaphor, feminist and Marxist criticism are usually prescribed.
introduce students to studying English Literature at AS and A Level. Units introducing students to reading, writing and research, and to the historicist approach that characterises the English Literature A specification, are followed by units on poetry, prose and drama. Much of the material here is designed for self-study, but it could