English Language & Literature

Varndean College

A Level

In Brighton

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Description

  • Type

    A Level

  • Location

    Brighton

  • Duration

    Flexible

  • Start date

    Different dates available

English Language and Literature is a dynamic and exciting course for students who feel they have an enthusiasm and skill in both areas. It combines examining literary texts with using an understanding of how language works to create texts and to suggest the speaker or writer’s identity. As you work on both Englishes, you will examine how spontaneous speech operates in real life and how dialogue can be represented in texts. This course enables students to study a wide range of text-types, including fiction such as novels, short stories, poetry and plays and non-fiction varieties including memoir, articles, online texts and conversational transcripts.

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Brighton (East Sussex)
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Surrenden Road, BN1 6WQ

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About this course

This is the right course for anyone who has enjoyed both English GCSEs and who feels they have cross-curricular language skills and interest, which encompass the literary and linguistic. If you enjoy reading fiction and nonfiction, appreciate the creative and analytical aspects of English work and have a passion for the written and spoken word, then this will be the right course for you.

Grade 4 in both GCSE English Language and English Literature.

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Subjects

  • English Language
  • English
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • English Conversation
  • English Poetry
  • Language and Literature
  • Literature
  • Language
  • Linguistic
  • Literary

Course programme

Paper 1: [40%] Voices in Speech and Writing

This focuses on exploring an anthology of text-types and one stage play, such as 'A Streetcar Named Desire'

Paper 2: [40%] Varieties in Language and Literature

This unit involves studying a wide range of non-fiction texts on a chosen theme, in preparation for responding to an unseen text on one theme, from the following list:

  • Society and the Individual
  • Love
  • Loss
  • Encounters
  • Crossing Boundaries

We will also read and examine two literary texts on one of the above key themes; for instance, 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Othello'.

OTHER INFORMATION

Creative Writing

The English Area at Varndean College offers a weekly class for writers run by published performance poet and writer, Rachel Shorer. It is an extracurricular activity open to all. In each session, she leads workshops on developing students’ skills in different aspects of creative writing. Prose, poetry, drama and script writing are all covered. Rachel also offers detailed advice on individual work in progress.

The English Literature Extension Class

Varndean’s English Literature Extension Class runs throughout the year and is an informal group, which meets every two or three weeks after college or at lunchtime to discuss texts and ideas not on the standard course.

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