SCHEME OF WORK ENGLISH LITERATURE YEAR 12
Term 1
Duffy, The World’s Wife
Close Reading of Poems, Discussion, Note Taking, Coursework on a Passage, Patriarchal Discourse,
Literature and Myth, Gender Construction, Language and Culture, Genre and Kind, Verse, Poetics and
Structure, Humour, Anachronism and Modernity, Violence and Gender Politics, Women, Bodies and Minds.
Atwood, Cat’s Eye
Close Reading of the Text, Discussion, Note Taking, Comparative Coursework, The Novel, Myth, Allegory,
Structure, Bildungsroman and Dante, Gender Construction and Literary Character, Violence and Gender
Politics, Humour and Wordplay, Women and Madness, Religion and Mores, Birth, Creativity and the Arts,
Gender Socialisation, Fictional Realism: The Journey of Life.
Williams, Suddenly Last Summer
Close Reading of the Text, Discussion, Note Taking, Video, Comparative Coursework, Sets, Staging and
Greek Theatre, Symbolism and Expressionism, Men and Women, Madness and Psychiatry, Patriarchy,
Matriarchy and Power, Humour and Tragedy, Violence against Women, Sexuality and Society, American
Values; Class, Sex and Power, Use and Abuse, Structure, Memory and Myth, Writing of Comparative
Coursework.
Term 2
Bronte, Jane Eyre
Close Reading of Text, Note Taking, Social and Cultural Context, Autobiographical Elements, Family,
Religion, Gender, External and Internal Beauty, Education, Madness, Sexual Morality, Marriage,
Punishment and Redemption, Symbolism, The Gothic, Critical and Analytical Texts, Essay, Exam Practice.
Yeats, Poetry
Close Study of Poems, Social and Historical Context, Textual Difficulties and Irish Mythology, Ireland and
Politics, Film on Yeats, Theology, Myth and Cultural Theory, Rhetoric, Allegory and Social Comment,
Verse Structure, Lyric Voice, Practice Essays, Exam Practice, Critical and Analytical Texts.
Term 3
Coursework and Exam Practice.