EXEMPLAR 1
AS
SDL
or
WRO
Drama pre-1900
Component 1: Section 1
Shakespeare: Hamlet
Drama pre-1900
Component 1: Section 1
Shakespeare: Hamlet
2 G4S essays
2 G4S essays
Drama post-1900
Component 2: Section 1
Drama: Streetcar named Desire by
Tennessee Williams
Drama post-1900
Component 2: Section 1
Drama: Streetcar named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
2 G4S essays
2 G4S essays
Mocks
AS
RUS
or
ASH
Poetry pre-1900
Component 1: Section 2
Poetry: The Merchant’s Prologue
and Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer
Poetry pre-1900
Component 1: Section 2
Poetry: The Merchant’s Prologue and
Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer
Prose Post-1900
Component 2: Section 2
Prose: The Great Gatsby by F Scott
Fitzgerald
Prose Post-1900
Component 2: Section 2
Prose: The Great Gatsby by F
Scott Fitzgerald
2 G4S essays
2 G4S essays
2 G4S essays
2 G4S essays
Mocks
A
level
SDL
or
WRO
Non Exam Assessment
Component 3: Literature post 1900
Comparative essay: Drama & Prose
Streetcar named Desire & Wide
Sargasso Sea
2000 words (excluding quotes, task
titles, footnotes and bibliography)
Individual tutorials
Non Exam Assessment
Component 3: Literature post 1900
Comparative essay: Drama & Prose
Streetcar named Desire & Wide
Sargasso Sea
2000 words (excluding quotes, task
titles, footnotes and bibliography)
Individual tutorials
Final draft before Christmas end of
term
NO EXTENTIONS
Drama & Poetry Pre 1900
Component 1: The Duchess of Malfi by
John Webster
2 G4S essays
Drama & Poetry Pre 1900
Component 1: The Duchess of Malfi
by John Webster
2 G4S essays
Revision & Exams
Non Exam Assessment
Component 3: Literature
post 1900
Comparative essay: Drama &
Prose
Streetcar named Desire &
Wide Sargasso Sea
2000 words (excluding
quotes, task titles, footnotes
and bibliography)
Revision & Exams
Non Exam Assessment
Component 3: Literature
post 1900
Re-creative writing with
commentary: Duffy
1000 words (excluding
quotes, task titles, footnotes
and bibliography)
Drama & Poetry Pre 1900
Component 1: The Duchess of
Malfi by John Webster & The
Merchant’s Prologue and Tale by
Geoffrey Chaucer
Drama & Poetry Pre 1900
Component 1: The Duchess
of Malfi by John Webster &
The Merchant’s Prologue and
Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer
2 G4S essays
2 G4S essays
Moderation of c/w
Non Exam Assessment
Component 3:
Literature post 1900
Comparative essay:
Drama & Prose
Streetcar named Desire
& Wide Sargasso Sea
2000 words (excluding
quotes, task titles,
footnotes and
bibliography)
First draft after
summer holiday
Non Exam Assessment
Component 3:
Literature post 1900
Re-creative writing with
commentary: Duffy
1000 words (excluding
quotes, task titles,
footnotes and
bibliography)
First draft after
summer holiday
Revision & Exams
A
level
RUS
or
ASH
Non Exam Assessment
Component 3: Literature post 1900
Re-creative writing with
commentary: Duffy
1000 words (excluding quotes, task
titles, footnotes and bibliography)
SUBMISSION OF TITLES TO BOARD
Individual tutorials
Final draft before Oct half term
NO EXTENSIONS
Comparative and Contextual study
American Literature 1880 – 1940
Comparative and Contextual study
American Literature 1880 – 1940
Component 2: The Grapes of Wrath by
John Steinbeck
Component 2: The Great Gatsby by F
Scott Fitzgerald & The Grapes of
Wrath by John Steinbeck
2 G4S essays
2 G4S essays
Comparative and Contextual
study
American Literature 1880 – 1940
Drama pre-1900
Component 1: Section 1
Shakespeare: Hamlet
Component 2: The Great Gatsby
by F Scott Fitzgerald & The
Grapes of Wrath by John
Steinbeck
2 G4S essays
Moderation of c/w
2 G4S essays
Drama pre-1900
Component 1: Section 1
Shakespeare: Hamlet
2 G4S essays
Revision & Exams
EXEMPLAR 2
OCR A level: Teaching September 2015
The following curriculum Plan is based on co-teaching of AS (exam 2016) and A level (exam 2017)
Term 1
3 Weeks
Skills course ; Introduction to A level. Teach 1 and 2.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
9 weeks
Teacher 1 : The Tempest : William Shakespeare
Teacher 2 : The Merchants Prologue and Tale : Geoffrey Chaucer.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Term 2
3 weeks
Teacher 1 : The Tempest – William Shakespeare
Teacher 2 : The Merchants Prologue and Tale : Geoffrey Chaucer
End of unit internal exam.
Term 2 continued :
7 weeks
Teacher 1 : The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories : Angela Carter.
Teacher 2 :A Streetcar Named Desire : Tennessee Williams
Term 3
3 Weeks ( for AS students )
Teacher 1 : The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories : Angel Carter
Teacher 2 : A Streetcar Named Desire : Tennessee Williams.
AS external examination (May 2016)
End of unit internal exam.
Term 3 continued:
A level Students
5 weeks: ( 7 -2 weeks out for Work Experience)
Teacher 1 and 2 :
The Dolls House – Henrik Ibsen
The Merchant’s Prologue and Tale- Geoffrey Chaucer.
This will be an opportunity to complete the work on A level paper 1: section B.
The candidates will study A Doll’s House and revise The Merchant’s Prologue and Tale – Geoffrey Chaucer.
Time will be allocated to practise of the B question using the two texts.
Year 2: 2016- 2017
Term 1
Focus on the non-assessed unit.
Women and Relationships.
Teacher 1
2 weeks
Cloze Text Analysis : A Streetcar Named Desire –Tennessee Williams ( 45 lines in the context of the entire drama)
Teacher 2 :
2 weeks
Skills course : examine structure, critical views, use of AOs.
6 weeks
Teacher 1 : Sylvia Plath’s Poetry ( Collected Poems ) - ( 1981) forward by Ted Hughes – Comparative Study
Teacher 2 : On Chesil Beach – Ian McEwan. – 2008 - Comparative Study
‘Susan Bardo argues that all women aspire to coercive , standardised ideals’ which make women feel the need to conform
to accepted social norms
Term 1 :
2 weeks( December2016)
Comparative Study ( paper 2 ) The Gothic:
Teacher 1 : Review the background to The Gothic.
Teacher 2 : Introduce arrange of cloze readings from texts : including : Poe : the Fall of the House of Usher, Radcliife: the
Mystery of Udolpho, James ; The Turn of the Screw, Walpole : the Castle of Ortranto
Term 2: ( 2017)
9 weeks
Teacher 1 : Dracula : Bram Stoker.Revise : the Bloody Chamber and Other Stories : Angela Carter.
Teacher 2 : extracts from : The Picture of Dorian Grey, Beckford : Vathek, Shelley: Frankenstein, Faulkener: Light in August,
McCarthy : Outer Dark; Banks : The Wasp Factory, Morrison : Beloved.
Examination practice included in the planning structure.
Term 3
8 weeks
Teacher 1: Paper 1 : The Tempest : The Merchants Prologue and Tale Revision. Examination Practice.
Teacher 2 : paper 2 : The Gothic . Revision . Examination practice.
Terminal examination.( June)
EXEMPLAR 3
Year 12 Literature (H072) OCR 2015
Autumn 1
(7 weeks)
Shakespeare
Text to be
studied
Shakespeare:
The Tempest
Autumn 2
(7 weeks)
Introduction:
Modern prose
text
(Comparison
prose text 1 in
full A-level)
Spring 1
(6
weeks)
Poetry
pre-1900
George Orwell:
Samuel
Nineteen Eighty- Taylor
four
Coleridge:
Selected
Poems
Spring
2
(6
weeks)
Drama
post1900
Summer 1
(7 weeks)
Revision:
Shakespeare/
Poetry pre1900
Modern
prose/Drama
post-1900
Tennesse
e
Williams:
A
Streetcar
Named
Desire
Shakespeare:
The Tempest /
Samuel Taylor
Coleridge:
Selected
Poems
George Orwell:
Nineteen
Eighty-four /
Tennessee
Williams:
Streetcar
Exams
AS-level
exams:
Shakespeare
and poetry
(15th May);
Drama and
prose (21st
May TBC)
Summer 2
(7 weeks)
Contextual
study in
chosen area
and prep for
unseen
George
Orwell:
Nineteen
Eighty-four
Margret
Atwood: The
Handmaid’s
Tale
Unseen texts
Year 13 Literature (H472) OCR 2016
Autumn 1
(7 weeks)
2 lessons
Comparison
prose text 2
Autumn 2
(7 weeks)
Comparison
prose text 2
Spring 1
(6 weeks)
Spring 2
(6 weeks)
Modern
prose text 1
and 2
comparison
Shakespeare
revision and
extract
analysis
Summer 1
(7 weeks)
Revision of
all, with focus
on
preparation
for unseen
Exams
Drama and
poetry pre1900 Written
exam 2hr 30
mins
Comparative
and contextual
study Written
exam 2hr 30
mins
Text to be
studied
Margret
Atwood: The
Handmaid’s
Tale
Margret
Atwood: The
Handmaid’s
Tale
George
Orwell:
Nineteen
Eighty-four /
Shakespeare:
The Tempest
AS / A2 texts
& unseen
extracts
Drama pre1900
Drama and
poetry pre1900
comparison
Margret
Atwood: The
Handmaid’s
Tale
2 lessons
Coursework
task: Close
reading or recreative
Coursework
task:
comparison of
poetry / prose
/ drama
Drama pre1900
Text to be
studied
Poetry
Prose
Drama (one of
which must be
post-2000)
Poetry
Prose
Drama (one of
which must be
post-2000)
John Webster: John Webster:
The Duchess of The Duchess of
Malfi
Malfi
John Webster:
The Duchess of
Malfi /
Samuel
Taylor
Coleridge:
Selected
Poems
EXEMPLAR 4
OCR AS Level (H072) and A Level (H472) English Literature – a suggested co-teachable programme of study:
Triple
KMe
Double
ASe &
KKe
Triple
KMe
Double
ASe &
KKe
Triple
KMe
Double
ASe &
KKe
Term One: The History Boys (Drama post-1900)
& Unseen (Section 2)
(AS Component 02/A Level Component 03: Coursework)
Term One: The Tempest (Shakespeare)
(AS Component 01/A Level Component 01)
HT
Term Two: The Merchant’s Prologue and Tale (Poetry pre-1900)
(AS Component 01/A Level Component 01)
& Unseen (AS component 02)
Nineteen Eighty Four (Prose Text post-1900)
(AS Component 02/A level component 02)
HT
Re-visit The History Boys
(AS Component 02/A Level Component 03:
coursework)
Term Three: Re-visit The Tempest
(AS Component 01/A Level Component 01)
HT
Exam HT
Exam
Exam HT
Exam
HT
Term One: The History Boys (Drama post-1900)
&Unseen (Section 2)
(AS Component 02/A Level Component 03: Coursework)
Term One: The Tempest (Shakespeare)
(AS Component 01/A Level Component 01)
Term Two: The Merchant’s Prologue and Tale (Poetry pre-1900)
(AS Component 01/A Level Component 01)
& Unseen (AS component 02)
Nineteen Eighty Four (Prose Text post-1900)
(AS Component 02/A level component 02)
Introduce Comparative Coursework
The History Boys and Catcher in the Rye
(A Level Component 03: Coursework)
Introduce Coursework Re-creative writing
The World’s Wife
(A Level Component 03: Coursework)
Triple
KMe
Term One: Comparative Coursework
The History Boys and Catcher in the Rye
(A Level Component 03: Coursework)
HT
Double
Coursework Re-creative writing
HT
Term One: Introduce She Stoops to Conquer
(Drama pre-1900 comparison with poetry The Merchant’s
Prologue and Tale)
(A Level Component 01)
The Handmaid’s Tale (Contextual Text 1)
ASe &
KKe
The World’s Wife
(A Level Component 03: Coursework)
Triple
KMe
Term Two: She Stoops to Conquer
(Drama pre-1900 comparison with poetry)
(A Level Component 01)
The Handmaid’s Tale (Contextual Text 1)
(A Level Component 02)
Ninteen Eighty Four (Contextual Text 2 Re-visit) plus unseen
(A Level Component 02)
& re-visit The Tempest (A Level component 1)
Double
ASe &
KKe
(A Level Component 02)
HT
HT
Term Two: She Stoops to Conquer & re-visit The Tempest
(Drama pre-1900 comparison with poetry)
(A Level Component 01)
The Handmaid’s Tale (Contextual Text 1)
(A Level Component 02)
Ninteen Eighty Four (Contextual Text 2 Re-visit) plus unseen
(A Level Component 02)
& re-visit The Tempest (A Level component 1)