English Literature
English Literature is offered as an option at KS5. Students who select English Literature at AS/A2 follow the Cambridge IGCSE syllabus (9695). Students are assessed on their ability to give a personal, informed response to the three main forms of Literature: prose, drama and poetry. At A2 students also develop their skills of critical appreciation of unseen texts.
The aims of the English Literature course are to encourage:
- An appreciation of, and an informed personal response to literature in English in a range of texts in different forms, and from different periods and cultures.
- The interdependent skills of reading, analysis and communication.
- Effective and appropriate communication.
- Wider reading and an understanding of how it may contribute to personal development.
Students will be required to demonstrate:
- Ability to respond to texts in the three main forms (Prose, Poetry and Drama) of different types and from different cultures.
- An understanding of the ways in which writers’ choices of form, structure and language shape meanings.
- Ability to produce informed, independent opinions and judgements on literary texts.
- Ability to communicate clearly the knowledge, understanding and insight appropriate to literary study. (At A2 only)