12ELC - Literature in English - 9695 AS Level

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

At AS Level learners will study three set texts and prepare for one unseen text. Throughout the AS course learners will be encouraged to practise their skills in close reading through the study of literary extracts and unseen texts; developing skills of analysis and interpretation of texts, looking at how language shapes meaning, alongside their expression of personal response to the texts studied. Learners will explore the conventions of genres of texts and the contexts in which works have been written, read and received. Assessments are in the form of academic essays in which students produce informed, independent opinions and judgements of the texts under examination conditions