AS Level LiteratureKey messages:

AS is 100% Exam based- 2 exams

Paper 1 Paper 1 Literary Genres (comedy) 1hr 30 minsPart APart AShakespeare (Twelfth Night- closed book)Extract basedPart BPart BSection B: one essay question on a drama set text (closed book )

Comedy – Key texts

Texts currently studied in AS: •‘Twelfth Night’•‘Emma’•‘The Importance of Being Earnest’•Comedy Poetry Anthology (incl. ‘The Flea’, ‘Sunny Prestatyn’ and ‘Mrs Sisyphus’) 5 hours study at home

to compliment study at school

Prose and poetry texts for AS

Paper 1 example question- extract based Section A

Paper 1 Section B

Key MessagesPaper 2:Paper 2:

Assessed written exam: 1 hour 30 minutes

Open bookOpen book

50 marks

50% of AS level

Questions

Section A: Section A: one essay question on poetry set text (25 marks)

Section B: Section B: one essay question on prose set text (25 marks)

Paper 2- Poetry anthology Section A

Paper 2- Emma Section B

AS- Level

What's assessedOption 1B: Aspects of comedyStudy of three texts: one Shakespeare text; a second drama text and one further text, of which one must be written pre-1900

Assessed•written exam: 2 hours 30 minutes•closed book•75 marks•40% of A-level

QuestionsSection A: one passage-based question on set Shakespeare text (25 marks)Section B: one essay question on set Shakespeare text (25 marks)Section C: one essay question linking two texts (25 marks

A Level

• In addition to the Comedy texts studied at AS which move together to form Paper 1 (closed book) in A level

• Paper 2 consists of crime fiction (texts TBC but may include Christie, Brighton Rock, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and a modern prose text)

• NEA (coursework) – 2 essays each applying an aspect of the critical anthology to a text (1 poetry, 1 prose). The anthology includes literary criticism sections on feminism, Marxism, post-colonialism ...

• As we haven’t begun to study this texts and overview of the course beyond AS is still TCB