AS/A Level


This one or two year course takes students to a new level of awareness in their study of literature.  Conducted in almost seminar-like surroundings, it has proved both intrinsically rewarding and rewarding in terms of results.

The course involves four modules and includes a mix of coursework and external exam.  Details on all the specifications can be found at: www.ccea.org/specifications

Texts studied at AS Level include:
 

The poetry of WB Yeats and Patrick Kavanagh or the poetry of Robert Frost and Edward Thomas

 

The Tempest by William Shakespeare The Glass Menagerie and Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams The Great Gatsby by FS Fitzgerald

 

Texts studied at A2 Level include:

  
Drama of Social Realism: A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen and Look Back in Anger by John Osborne
   
  
Tragedy: King Lear by William Shakespeare and The Burial at Thebes by Seamus Heaney
   
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
   
The Illusionist by Jennifer Johnston The poetry of John Donne or The Pardoner’s Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer

 

 

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