1. 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?...)

2. 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!
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3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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:
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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’

7. 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?

8. 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?