Literature in English

Novels

Plays

• Educating Rita, Willy Russell

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Novels (2027)

• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark

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• Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier

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Novels (2028)

• Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë

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• The Road, Cormac McCarthy

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Short stories

• Anita Desai : Games at Twilight

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• Ray Bradbury : The Veldt

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Poetry

• Thomas Hardy : ‘Afterwards’, ‘Bags of Meat’, ‘Weathers’

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Plays (2027 & 2028)

• The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare

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• Top Girls, Caryl Churchill

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Films

Short stories (2027 & 2028)

• Shirley Jackson : The Daemon Lover

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• Ken Liu : The Paper Menagerie

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• Langston Hughes : Thank You, M’am

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• George Saunders : I Can Speak!™

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• Toni Morrison : Sweetness

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• Kazuo Ishiguro : A Family Supper

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Short stories (2027)

• Roald Dahl : Parson’s Pleasure

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• Kate Chopin : The Story of an Hour

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Short stories (2028)

• Nathaniel Hawthorne : The Birthmark

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• Raymond Carver : A Small, Good Thing

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Set poetry (2027 & 2028)

• Emily Dickinson : ‘Like Rain it sounded till it curved’, ‘There came a Wind like a Bugle’, ‘There’s a certain Slant of light’

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• Imtiaz Dharker : ‘Number 106’ , ‘Speech Balloon’, ‘It Doesn't Matter’

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• Ted Hughes : ‘Thrushes’, ‘Crow and the Birds’, ‘Full Moon and Little Frieda’

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• Carol Ann Duffy : ‘Head of English’, ‘Recognition’, ‘In Mrs Tilscher’s Class’

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Set poetry (2027)

• e. e. cummings : ‘Buffalo Bill’s’, ‘maggie and milly and molly and may’, ‘nobody loses all the time’

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Set poetry (2028)

• Wilfred Owen : ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’, ‘Strange Meeting’, ‘The Send-Off’

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Films (2027 & 2028)

• Vertigo (1958) Dir: Alfred Hitchcock

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• Chinatown (1974) Dir: Roman Polanski

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• The Remains of the Day (1993) Dir: James Ivory

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• The Painted Veil (2006) Dir: John Curran

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• Life of Pi (2012) Dir: Ang Lee

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§ Skills: Unseen poetry

• Thought and feeling in an unseen poem

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• Techniques: how thought and feeling are conveyed

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• Personal response grounded in the poem

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§ Skills: Essay & critical analysis

• Essay structure and use of textual evidence

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• Passage-based critical analysis (Paper 2 Section A)

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• Comparing texts: short stories and set poems

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• Film techniques for the SBA

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