You will study the following units over the two year A Level. Topics taught in year one are also examined in the second year:

Year 1 - Telling Stories
Over the course of this year you will discover how and why a range of stories are told through the following units:

1. Remembered Places - Explore the AQA Paris Anthology, featuring a range of texts from different genres and periods that include spoken texts. Analyse how place is represented and how social and cultural context impacts that representation.
2. Imagined Worlds - You will study Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, focusing on how characterisation, point of view and time and space are navigated.
3. Poetic Voices - Engage with a selection of poetry from Carol Ann Duffy’s Mean Time, considering the function of poetry and the poetic voice.

Year 2 - Exploring Conflict
Over the course of the second year you will focus on how language choices help to construct ideas of conflict between people, and between people and their societies through the following units:

1. Writing About Society - Consider how The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: or the Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale uses situations of conflict to express ideas about society and their values. You will also be encouraged to adapt and shape material from this text into your own writing.
2. Critical Commentary - Drawing on your work in Writing About Society, you will learn how to critically evaluate and write about your own writing.
3. Dramatic Encounters - Utilise Tennesee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire to explore how playwrights create and engage with conflict in their writing.
4. NEA - Making Connections - Over both years you will explore the non-examined assessment. The NEA requires you to make active connections between a literary text and non-literary material of your choice. These connections should be focused on a specific theme, linguistic feature or idea that may occur across these texts. This will result in the completion of a 3,000 word investigation.