English Language and Literature A-Level

English is well respected by employers and university admissions officers. The top 20 universities in the UK (The Russell Group) will now only consider students with two facilitator subjects at A-Level of which English is one.

Year 1 topics
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley -
technique and effect
- Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy -
comparative stylistic and thematic
elements of the poems
- Anthology: Paris - analyse how each
text is shaped to focus on a specific
audience or purpose
- Re-creative writing

Year 2 topics
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley - a more in depth focus on the contextual factors which have and continue to shape perceptions of the novel
- Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy - a focus on the craft of the writer, with a detailed study of your chosen poems
- Anthology: Paris - how experience is expressed and how identity is shaped
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- Othello by William Shakespeare