Unit 3 – LITA3
Reading for Meaning
30% of A Level
2 hour 30 minutes written examination (closed book)
80 marks
Two questions involving unprepared
extracts and wider reading on the unit
theme of ‘Love Through the Ages’
Unit 3 – LITA3
AQA LITA3 handout
Reading for Meaning
30% of A Level
2 hour 30 minutes written examination (closed book)
80 marks
Two questions involving unprepared
extracts and wider reading on the unit
theme of ‘Love Through the Ages’
Unit 4 – LITA4
Extended Essay and Shakespeare Study
20% of A Level
Coursework
70 marks
Extended comparative essay of 3000 words.
Unit 4 – LITA4
Extended Essay and Shakespeare Study
20% of A Level
Coursework
70 marks
King Lear (JHg Terms 6 & 1)
Death of a Salesman (JB Term 1)
Your own choice of text –
parents & children
siblings
Mental demise of protagonist
Extended comparative essay of 3000 words.
A01 A02 A03 A04
Articulate creative, informed and relevant responses to literary texts, using
appropriate terminology and concepts, and coherent, accurate written
expression.
Demonstrate detailed critical understanding in analysing the ways in which
structure, form and language shape meanings in literary texts.
Explore connections and comparisons between different literary texts, informed
by interpretations of other readers.
Demonstrate understanding of the significance and influence of the contexts in
which literary texts are written and received
Chaucer c.1390
Sonnet 18 Shakespeare 1609
La Belle Dame Sans Merci Keats 1819
The Seduction Eileen McAuley 1980s
‘First Love’ Carol Ann Duffy 1993
Present day 2013/14
What does the term ‘love’ mean to you?
What does the term ‘love’ mean to you?
sex
chivalric love
unrequited love
filial love
woo
courtly love
beauty
adultery
love as a battle ground
valour
challenging
obsession
bawdy
desire
romance
courtship
seduce
lust
pain
passion
love-sick
lover
self-love
homosexuality
JHg
King Lear - Shakespeare
Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams
Question 2 – different genre question
JB
Poetry
Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Question 1 – same genre question
JHg
King Lear – Shakespeare (6/1/2)
Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams (2/3)
CW – (3/4/5)
Question 2 – different genre question (3/4/5)
JB
Poetry (6/3/4/5)
Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller (1)
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen (2)
CW – (3/4/5)
Question 1 – same genre question (3/4/5)
You
Wider reading across all three genre
Wider reading…
SONNET 18
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
SONNET 18 (1609)
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
YouTube…
Take 15 minutes to make notes on
language, form and structure – pay
particular attention to the metaphors used
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
Read Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘First Love’ (1993).
In pairs… (15 minutes)
What is she telling us about ‘first love’?
What memories does she have?
How do both Shakespeare and Duffy use poetic
form, structure and language to express their
thoughts and ideas?
Make some notes, feedback and answer this as an
essay question for H.W. Due next lesson.
Something extra…
e.e. cummings –
i like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite a new thing. Muscles
better and nerves more. i like your body. i like what it does, i like its hows. i
like to feel the spine of your body and its bones, and the trembling -firmsmooth ness and which i will again and again and again kiss, i like kissing
this and that of you, i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz of your electric
fur, and what-is-it comes over parting flesh . . . . And eyes big love-crumbs,
and possibly i like the thrill of under me you quite so new
Where might the lines end?
e.e. cummings –
Any thoughts
about form,
structure
and
language?
i like my body when it is with your
body. It is so quite a new thing.
Muscles better and nerves more.
i like your body. i like what it does,
i like its hows. i like to feel the spine
of your body and its bones, and the trembling
-firm-smooth ness and which i will
again and again and again
kiss, i like kissing this and that of you,
i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz
of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes
over parting flesh . . . . And eyes big love-crumbs,
and possibly i like the thrill
of under me you quite so new