13ELC - Literature in English - 9695 A2 Level

Student voice: 

Cambridge International A Level Literature in English will provide students with the opportunity to gain further knowledge and understanding of international poetry, prose and drama, with candidates studying all genres at both levels. A range of four sophisticated literary set texts have been carefully selected to offer a depth and breadth of literary study and to encourage lively and stimulating classroom discussion.    

Students will be develop their close-reading skills through the study of literary extracts; developing skills of analysis and interpretation of texts, alongside their expression of personal response to the texts studied. They will explore the conventions of genres of texts and the contexts in which works have been written, read and received. They will also further expand their subject knowledge through the evaluation of opinions and ideas, both their own and those of others.

External assessment is in the form of two, two-hour external examinations at the end of the year during which students write one essay on each of the set texts: Paper 3: Shakespeare and Drama and Paper 4: Pre- and Post-1900 Poetry and Prose.