Struggling to come to terms with all the texts you have to cover for the English Literature examinations?
Solihull English tuition will endeavour to ensure that you have all of the skills necessary to enable you to not only be confident and competent in your English Literature examination but also develop a love of reading that will affect the rest of your life.
Texts covered tie into AQA, OCR, EDEXCEL and WJEC EDQUAS examination boards.
These boards are used by: Arden School, Tudor Grange, Alderbrook, Solihull School, Edgbaston Girls’ School, Bournville School, Dame Elizabeth Cadbury, Kings Norton Girls’ School, Kings Norton Boys’ School.
All examination boards will cover a Nineteenth Century Novel, A Post 1914 Play or Novel, Shakespeare (of course) and poetry both seen and unseen.
Exam Board Aims
The aim of the exam boards is to:
Read a wide range of classic literature fluently and with good understanding, and make connections across their reading
Read in depth, critically and evaluatively, so that they are able to discuss and explain their understanding and ideas
Develop the habit of reading widely and often
Appreciate the depth and power of the English literary heritage
Write accurately, effectively and analytically about their reading, using Standard English
Acquire and use a wide vocabulary, including grammatical terminology, and other literary and linguistic terms they need to criticise and analyse what they read.
Texts covered by Solihull English Tuition for A Level English Literature.
A Level OCR, AQA & EDEXCEL
Just some of the texts studied:
Hamlet, Othello, Measure for Measure, The Tempest, The Taming of the Shrew.
A Streetcar Named Desire, Sister Carrie, The Great Gatsby, The Handmaid’s Tale, Regeneration, The Native Son, All Quiet on the Western Front, Letters From A Lost Generation.
Chaucer’s ‘The Merchant’s Tale', Christina Rossetti’s Poetry, & ‘Love Through the Ages' (Pre and post 1900).
Texts covered by Solihull English Tuition for GCSE English Literature.
Post 1914/Modern Prose or Drama
An Inspector Calls, Blood Brothers, The History Boys, DNA, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (playscript), and A Taste of Honey.
The 19th Century Novel
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations, Jane Eyre, Frankenstein & Pride & Prejudice.
Modern Prose
Lord of the Flies, Animal Farm, Never Let Me Go, Anita and Me, Pigeon English & The Woman in Black. I cover all poetry from the examination board anthologies and how to analyse, evaluate and compare unseen poetry.
