English Literature - Year 12 :: Queen Elizabeth High School

AS English Literature (OCR – F 661/F 662) - Year 12

There are two units at AS level (Examination texts F 661 and Coursework F662 ), all taught by two teachers. The coursework represents 40% of the total marks at AS level (20% of the full A Level); the examined unit is worth 60%( 30 % of the full A level); both units are examined in May/June of Year 12.

TEACHER 1 Unit F662	TEACHER 2 Unit F662
Half Term 1 (September - October)
Introduction to criticism using department critical anthology Critical terminology revision The Wasteland Modernism Coursework text A - Brighton Rock- G Greene	Selected poetry of TS Eliot The Love Songs of J Arthur Prufrock Students will write a piece of close analysis of no more than 40 lines referring to other work by Eliot where relevant. The focus of study is A02 Coursework text B - Enduring Love- I McEwan
External Assessment: No Internal Common Assessment: Yes Coursework Deadline this H/T: N/A Field Trips/Visits: No	External Assessment: No Internal Common Assessment: Yes Coursework Deadline this H/T: Prufrock 1st draft. w/c 10/10/11: Field Trips/Visits: No

Half Term 2 (November - December)
Continue teaching Text A	Continue teaching Text B
External Assessment: No Internal Common Assessment: Yes Coursework Deadline this H/T: Comparative coursework first draft 28/11/11 Field Trips/Visits: No	External Assessment: No Internal Common Assessment: Yes Coursework Deadline this H/T: Prufrock final w/c 14/11/11 Field Trips/Visits: No

Half Term 3 (January - February)
Poetry: WB Yeats( selected poetry only)	Novel: The Picture of Dorian Gray by O. Wilde
External Assessment: No Internal Common Assessment: Yes Coursework Deadline this H/T: Final draft comparative 9/1/12 Field Trips/Visits: Yes Ridley hall (TBC	External Assessment: No Internal Common Assessment: Yes Coursework Deadline this H/T: N/A Field Trips/Visits: No

Half Term 4 (March - April)
Continue poetry	Continue novel
External Assessment: No Internal Common Assessment: Yes Mock dates w/c 12/3/12 Coursework Deadline this H/T: N/A Field Trips/Visits: No	External Assessment: No Internal Common Assessment: Yes Mock dates w/c 12/3/12 Coursework Deadline this H/T: N/A Field Trips/Visits: No

Half Term 5 (May - June)
Exam preparation and revision	Exam preparation and revision
External Assessment: Yes Internal Common Assessment: No Coursework Deadline this H/T: N/A Field Trips/Visits: No	External Assessment: Yes Internal Common Assessment: No Coursework Deadline this H/T: N/A Field Trips/Visits: No

Suggested Course reading list:
Brighton Rock- G Greene
Enduring Love -I McEwan

Any collected edition of WB Yeats and TS Eliot( though school will provide the poetry needed for examination)

Other work by Oscar Wilde including ‘The Importance of being Earnest’

Other novels by McEwan include:
Atonement
Saturday
The Innocent

Also consider other novels by G. Greene.:
The Third man
Our Man in Havana
The Power and the Glory

Possible extracts only from any of the following:
The Art of Fiction – Henry James
The Illusions of Post-modernism – Terry Eagleton
Postmodernism and Feminism – Patricia Waugh
Montgomery/Durant/Fabb/Furniss/Mills – Ways of Reading, Routledge (978 0415346344)
Malcolm Peet and David Robinson – Leading Questions: a Course in Literary Appreciation,
Nelson (0 174 323379)
Robert Eaglestone – Doing English, Routledge (0 415 28423 6)
David Lodge – The Art of Fiction, Penguin (0 140 17492 3)