A level English Literature organisation and requirements

What you need to bring to lessons

  • Set texts
  • You will need to purchase your own copies of set texts.
  • A4 lever-arch folder
  • It is your responsibility to buy this
  • A4 folder dividers
  • It is your responsibility to buy this and bring it n to every lesson, filing your work each week.
  • You are advised to work on lined paper and file this in your folders.

Organisation of lessons

All classwork should be completed ion lined paper and filed into your A4 ring binders.

Homework and independent work should be completed on paper and handed in on the deadline. Failure to hand work in on the due date will result in a detention that evening. If a student completes the homework in their free periods in that day, they will still have a detention.

The folder should be separated into separate sections

  • Classwork
  • Revision notes
  • Homework and Independent notes
  • Assessments
  • Specification Overview

If a student misses a lesson, it is their responsibility to catch up on the work missed. If they miss a lesson they must do the following before the next lesson

  • Email the teacher to find out the work missed
  • Find the teacher to find out the work missed
  • Speak to someone in the class to find out the work missed

Failure to complete the work missed from previous lessons will result in a student attending compulsory catch-up.

Summer reading and preparatory activities for entry onto A Level English Literature

(PLEASE NOTE: all of these tasks will be tested for upon beginning the course. Non-completion means you will be unable to start the programme of study for lessons in September).

Purchase course texts (required for first week of teaching in September, but no need to pre-read):

  1. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood (any version)
  2. The Tempest – Shakespeare (Arden version)

Books to read for the dystopian synoptic unit:

(Buy, download or borrow all 3 book titles; make notes on what you liked and what you found challenging about each one; bring 3 pages of notes to first lesson with Mr Choudhury):

  1. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
  2. Children of Men – P.D. James
  3. Do Androids Dream of Sheep? – Phillip K Dick

Films to watch:

(Please make half a page of notes on each one as you watch – how does each film maker create an ‘otherworldy’ atmosphere? Bring notes to first lesson with Mr Choudhury):

  1. Bladerunner
  2. Twelve Monkeys
  3. The Tempest – (Helen Mirren version)

Creative writing task: write your own opening chapter to a dystopian tale (research what dystopia is if needed!) No more than 500 words. Bring to first lesson back with Mr Choudhury.

Optional extension reading task: read Thomas More’s Utopia (free downloads available). Make notes on More’s vision and purpose.