Good afternoon! Welcome to year 12 and a wonderful year filled with exciting literary experiences (if you choose to do A level literature! And why wouldn’t you?...)

Why study literature? Obvious answer is – why not?! It makes you a better person It could lead to further study Rigorous and well respected by employers, colleges, university admissions tutors. Makes you more attractive It’s a sociable subject You finally get to be creative in English Read a wonderful selection of texts – heritage and modern Links to history, philosophy Challenges your assumptions; helps you to form your own opinions Join the longest, greatest conversation about humanity Learning form the past, in the present, for the future (Professor Katy Shaw) You get to come with us to London to see Othello at the Globe theatre! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raRJhypEgzE 48s

What will you study? This version only! Your first year is entitled ‘Love through the Ages’. Fear not, it’s not soppy! This version only! Teacher A Teacher B Sept - Dec Jane Eyre Unseen prose and poetry Jan- Mar Post 1900 anthology poetry Othello April- July Linking JE to poetry Mock prep Preparing for NEA

What will you study? Your second year is entitled: Modern times: literature from 1945-present Teacher A Teacher B Sept- Dec ‘The Help’ Play Jan- Mar (NEA hand in date Feb) ‘Ariel’ Sylvia Plath Unseen prose April- July Linking ‘The Help’ and ‘Ariel’ Exam prep Revising play and unseen prose

How will I be assessed? 3 hours 40% of A level 2 hrs 30 mins Terminal exams: Paper 1 Shakespeare Unseen poetry Comparative prose and poetry Paper 2b: The Help and Ariel (comparative question) Play Unseen prose NEA One essay (2500 words) Free text choice (one must have been written pre 1900) Theme of your choice 3 hours 40% of A level 2 hrs 30 mins 40% of A level Independent study 20% of A level

How can I prepare? Not optional! Summer reading: Jane Eyre (Oxford World Classics edition) At least one other text of your choice – be prepared to discuss it when you return! Critical reading: e-magazine - https://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/ Click on emagazine Username: Hele’s Password: Bronte16 Summer tasks: Bronte uses five main locations in Jane Eyre What does Jane learn about love in each one? Research the position of governesses in the Victorian period Who would become a governess and why How were they treated/thought of How does this link to both Charlotte Bronte and ‘Jane Eyre’

Read the extracts Jane Eyre For My Lover… What form of love is being presented here? What do you think Bronte is saying about a woman’s right to love at this time in history? Why might it be different to a man’s? For My Lover… What form of love is being presented in ‘For My Lover, Returning to his Wife’? How does the speaker contrast herself the wife?

Read the extracts What form of love is being presented in ‘For My Lover, Returning to his Wife’? How does the speaker contrast herself the wife?