Term One A2 English Language DRA/MIB Sept 2014
A2 ENGLISH LITERATURE –OVERVIEW TERM ONE
Mrs Drake: dra@treviglas.cornwall.sch.uk
Mrs Maule: mib@treviglas.cornwall.sch.uk
Name:
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AS Grade:
Reflection/Thoughts:
Aspiring to:
Need to:
Analysis
Form
Language
Structure
Context
Comparison
Term One A2 English Language DRA/MIB Sept 2014
Monday session 3
Wednesday session 2
Thursday session 3
8/9/14: Intro to A2. The big questions –
What is Literature? What is Love?
Theoretical Approaches. Greenblatt
Plato, The Old Testament, The Middle
Ages and ‘Amore Courtois’. 16th/17th
Century Essays (Sir Francis Bacon)
10/9/14: Revising the context of
Shakespeare. Overview of Acts 13.
11/9/14: Overview of Acts 4 and
5. Scene study Act 5 Scene 2.
How have Othello and Iago
changed?
15/9/14: Love Through Prose
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
1813
Frankenstein Mary Shelley 1818
https://www.youtube.com/wat
ch?v=hWW3ryV5Jeg
An overview of context is provided
by the RSC www.rsc.org.uk
Nicholas Potter
17/9/14: Exploring the critical
terminology behind the study of
Shakespeare. Character focus:
Iago. How do Iago’s soliloquies
and his use of both prose and
verse reveal his character?
Coleridge in John Wain (ed.)
Othello: Casebook.
18/9/14: Character study: Othello
and Desdemona. Revise how to
explore alternative interpretations.
What are the motivations of Othello
and Desdemona?
Helen Gardner
22/9/14: Love Through Prose
24/9/14: Exploration of themes
and imagery. Groups will
complete a formal presentation to
the class, including a handout.
Individual mentoring.
York notes advanced, Letts notes,
Spark notes
25/9/14: Presentation of themes.
Independent exploration of initial
links to chosen texts. Individual
mentoring.
29/9/14: Love Through Prose
1/10/14: Shakespeare’s craft.
Evaluation of the language and
structure of the play.
2/10/14: Adopting an academic
register. We will explore how to write
critically in preparation for our formal
assessment next week. University
website support guides:
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte, Gilbert
and Gubar Wuthering Heights Emily
Bronte (1847)
Middlemarch George Eliot (1871)
Practice Exam question
Tess of the D’urbervilles Thomas
Hardy (1891)
Sons and Lovers DH Lawrence
(1913)
6/10/14:
Preparation for Formal Assessment
Exam Technique and feedback
from JE/MM practice
13/10/14: Prose
Eveline (from Dubliners) James
Joyce 1914
Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
(1938)
20/10/14: Prose
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn
Waugh (1945)
The Collector John Fowles (1963)
+ FORMAL ASSESSMENT FEEDBACK
AND REFELECTION
HALF TERM
3/11/14: P
Captain Correlli’s Mandolin Louis de
Bernieres (1993)
http://library.bcu.ac.uk/learner/writingguides/
1.20.htm
http://www2.open.ac.uk/students/skillsforstud
y/academic-writing-style.php
8/10/14: FORMAL
ASSESSMENT 1
9/10/14: FORMAL ASSESSMENT
1
15/10/14: Critical approaches.
Look at range of criticism and
explore how this informs our
understanding of the play. We will
then evaluate the criticism.
Maynard and Mack, John
Drakakis, A.C. Bradley, T.S. Eliot,
F.R. Leavis
22/10/14: Overview of love in
individual coursework texts. You
will choose three extracts from
your text and be expected to
present a full analysis of these to
your peers
16/10/14: Apply critical approaches
to coursework texts and find relevant
criticism to include for AO3ii.
HALF TERM
5/11/14: Individual presentations.
Revision of note-taking methods.
HALF TERM
6/11/14: Begin first draft of
coursework. Individual mentoring.
23/10/14: Revise planning skills in
order to meet the 4 assessment
objectives. Individual planning for
coursework title. Individual
mentoring.
http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/subjects/AQA2740-W-TRB-CACLITA4EESS.PDF
Term One A2 English Language DRA/MIB Sept 2014
Random Acts of Heroic Love Danny
Scheinmann (2007)
10/11/14: Prose
Student Choices – Peer leads on
extract analysis from Prose texts that
are your favourites!
17/11/14: Prose
Student Choices – Peer Leads on
extract analysis from Prose texts that
are your favourites
24/11/14: Prose
Practice exam question – Prose in one
hour. Checklists for annotation. Stylistic
analysis terminology quiz.
1/12/14: Prose
Getting the top grades. Quality
assurance and standing out from the
norm. Academic register and ‘due
tentativeness’
8/12/14:
Developing an overview. Timeline of
the trends / movements / authors as a
revision aid.
15/12/14:
Christmas reading from Mrs M!
Individual Prose Texts and tasks will be
set.
12/11/14: Love in other
Shakespeare plays. We will look
at extracts from The Taming of the
Shrew and Hamlet.
http://shakespeare.mit.edu/ for
online copies of all of
Shakespeare’s plays
19/11/14: Presentations of love in
A Streetcar Named Desire by
Tennessee Williams
13/11/14: Continue drafting
coursework. 700 words expected for
hand in. Individual mentoring.
26/11/14: Presentations of love in
A Streetcar Named Desire by
Tennessee Williams. Character
study: Blanche
3/12/14: Presentations of love in A
Doll’s House
Download a copy of the play at
The Gutenberg Project
27/11/14: Independent writing of
coursework, including self and peer
reflection and individual mentoring.
10/12/14: Revise how context
impacts upon the way that a text
is written and received with
reference to A Doll’s House
12/12/14: Independent writing of
coursework, including self and peer
reflection and individual mentoring.
17/12/14
TBC
20/11/14: Independent writing of
coursework, including self and peer
reflection and individual mentoring.
4/12/14: Independent writing of
coursework, including self and peer
reflection and individual mentoring.
COURSEWORK DEADLINE 7.1.15
18/12/14
TBC
Bring your file with you to every session – there will be lots of handouts and notes. So, get
organised and file them there and then to make your revision a whole lot easier!
Try to brush up on the characters, text and context mentioned before the session if you
can. The key references in brown will be referred to in the sessions and could also be
researched outside of the classroom.
It is expected that you will spend a minimum of 3 hours working on your coursework,
reading around the literature of love through the ages and completing independent
study outside of the classroom each week.
USEFUL WEBSITES FOR REVISION AND INFORMATION:
www.aqa.org.uk (GCE/A LEVEL – ENGLISH LIT SPEC A)
www.universalteacher.org.uk
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Term One A2 English Language DRA/MIB Sept 2014
Keep reading a range of prose, poetry and drama texts that explore the theme of love.
Record these texts in your reading log. You will be expected to show your reading log in
the individual mentoring sessions. Reading a range of wider texts across periods and
genre will support your comparison to the unseen texts in the examination.
I’d strongly recommend that you try to get a copy of this book
from Amazon too!
Notes