Cotham Learning Community Charnwood House 30 Cotham
Park Cotham Bristol BS6 6BU Telephone 0117 919 8100
Facsimile 0117 919 8142
Redland Green Learning Community Redland Court Road
Redland
Bristol BS6 7EH Telephone 0117 353 3433 Facsimile 0117 353
3434
Email info@nbp16c.org.uk
8th July 2013
Dear Parent and student,
RE: Cambridge Pre-U Literature
Welcome to the English Faculty! We are so pleased you have chosen to study the
Cambridge Pre- U Literature course with us. We know you will enjoy your learning and be
constantly inspired during this challenging course. We enjoy great results in this Curriculum
area and our teachers and our students strive to go beyond the minimum grade. How do
we manage this? It is quite simple; encouraging our students to have passion, focus,
energy and an enquiring mind throughout the learning experience.
In order to help you get off to a flying start it is important that you complete the following:
Summer Reading task
You are expected to read the identified four bold and underlined texts on the attached
reading list. This task is compulsory but do feel free to read other texts as well!
Summer Writing task
You have been allocated the topic of _______________. Feel free to read or dip into more
texts within this area and create an eclectic presentation of this topic via a collage,
preferably one side of A3.
Twitter link: @EFMCotham
Please understand that we expect extremely high standards from our students; including
work ethic and focus in lessons and efficient home learning and of course, excellent
attendance and punctuality. Good Luck with your Summer Tasks. The Summer Task is
also part of the Triple Challenge. This challenge is set up in September to ensure that this
is the right course for you. The Triple Challenge includes the Summer Task, a timed essay
set in class, plus a research task all to be completed before 27th September. We are all
looking forward to meeting you and working with you in September, nurturing and
witnessing the development of a purposeful independent learner during the year.
Yours sincerely,
Sally Papworth
Post 16 English at Cotham School
Director Marian Curran Assistant Headteachers Ros O’Connor (Cotham) Benjamin Houghton (Redland Green)
READING LIST
SET TEXTS: John Keats Selection
Hamlet Shakespeare
Top Girls Caryl Churchill
To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf
INDUCTION TEXTS:
ANCIENTS
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Penelopiad Margaret Atwood
Song of Achilles Madeleine Miller
A View from the Bridge Arthur Miller or any
other Miller plays
Oresteia Aeschylus
The Odyssey Homer
Secret History Donna Tartt
The World’s Wife Carol Ann Duffy
‘Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles’
Jeanette Winterson
FALL of MAN
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WAR
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First World War Trench Poets
Atonement Ian McEwan
Antony and Cleopatra Shakespeare
Henry V Shakespeare
Macbeth Shakespeare
Journey’s End R.C Sherriff
Oh What a Lovely War Joan Littlewood
Master Georgie Beryl Bainbridge
Catch 22 Joseph Heller
The Naked and the Dead Norman Mailer
Regeneration Trilogy Pat Barker
Black Adder Richard Curtis and Ben Elton
Parade’s End Ford Madox Ford
Farewell to Arms Hemingway
The Charge of the Light Brigade Tennyson
GOTHIC
Northanger Abbey Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
Jekyll and Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson
Frankenstein Mary Shelley
Nights at the Circus Angela Carter
Wasp Factory Iain Banks
Macbeth Shakespeare
Blood Wedding Lorca
The House of Bernarda Alba Lorca
Udolpho Ann Radcliffe
Castle of Otranto Horace Walpole
Dracula Bram Stoker
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
Songs of Innocence and Experience Blake
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
Disgrace J.M Coetzee
Jekyll and Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson
All My Sons Miller
Paradise Lost John Milton
The Bible
A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams
The OUTSIDER
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A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams
White Tiger Aravind Adiga
The Outsider Albert Camus
Buddha of Suburbia Hanif Kureishi
Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel
Oranges are not the Only Fruit Jeanette Winterson
Hardy Poetry –
The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
The World’s Wife Carol Ann Duffy
Merchant of Venice Shakespeare
Othello Shakespeare
Notes on a Scandal Zoe Heller
Brick Lane Monica Ali
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SCARLET WOMAN
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
The Miller’s Tale Chaucer
The Wife of Bath Chaucer
Pamela Samuel Richardson
Shamela Henry Fielding
Antony and Cleopatra Shakespeare
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
Mrs Warren’s Profession George Bernard Shaw
Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe
A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams
Miss Julie August Strindberg
The Crucible Arthur Miller
Rapture Carol Ann Duffy
Tess of the d’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
Director Marian Curran Assistant Headteachers Ros O’Connor (Cotham) Benjamin Houghton (Redland Green)
Director Marian Curran Assistant Headteachers Ros O’Connor (Cotham) Benjamin Houghton (Redland Green)