English Language and Literature AS and A Level

Students may study a pre-1914 poetry anthology and creative writing in both spoken and written modes for Paper 1. To enable this, students study methods of language analysis including how language sounds, grammatical structures, the choice of words and the assumptions speakers, writers, listeners and readers make. Paper 2 texts may include Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire; Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London or Capote’s In Cold Blood. All assessment at the end of the first year is examination based.