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AQA Level 1/Level 2 GCSE (9-1) in English Literature
Official qualification regulated by Ofqual, awarded by AQA. Classified as a GCSE (9 to 1).
Qualification Level
Level 1/Level 2
Awarding Body
AQA
Syllabus Units
2 Units
Guided Hours
Flexible
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Course Syllabus & Study Modules
Complete breakdown of verified curriculum topics and learning objectives.
1
Modern texts
Students will study one from a choice of 12 set texts, which include post-1914 prose fiction and drama. Students should study the whole text.
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Students can demonstrate knowledge of the whole set text and select relevant evidence to support their ideas.
- Students can analyse the writer's use of language, structure and form to create meaning and effects.
- Students can relate the text to its social, historical and cultural context and consider different interpretations.
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Modern texts
JB Priestley An Inspector Calls
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Analyse how Priestley uses dramatic techniques to convey themes and ideas.
- Explain the significance of context in shaping the play's meaning and reception.
- Construct a well-evidenced argument about the play's moral and social message.
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Modern texts
Willy Russell Blood Brothers (musical version)
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Analyse how Russell uses musical and dramatic techniques to convey themes and ideas.
- Explain the significance of social and historical context in shaping the musical's meaning.
- Construct a well-evidenced argument about the musical's social commentary and tragic impact.
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Modern texts
Dennis Kelly DNA
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Analyse how Kelly uses dramatic techniques to present character and conflict.
- Evaluate the play's exploration of morality and responsibility in its social context.
- Construct a coherent argument supported by precise textual evidence from the whole play.
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Modern texts
Shelagh Delaney A Taste of Honey
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Analyse how Delaney uses language and dramatic technique to present character and relationships.
- Evaluate the play's treatment of class, gender and sexuality in its historical context.
- Construct a coherent, evidence-based interpretation of the play as a whole.
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Modern texts
Chinonyerem Odimba Princess & The Hustler (First teaching 2023, first exam 2025)
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Students can explain how Odimba presents the theme of identity through Princess's journey.
- Students can analyse Odimba's use of dramatic techniques in key moments and relate them to the play as a whole.
- Students can discuss the play's context and its influence on characters and themes.
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Modern texts
Winsome Pinnock Leave Taking (First teaching 2023, first exam 2025)
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Students can explain how Pinnock presents the theme of cultural identity through the characters' experiences.
- Students can analyse Pinnock's use of dramatic techniques in key moments and relate them to the play as a whole.
- Students can discuss the play's context and its influence on characters and themes.
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Modern texts
William Golding Lord of the Flies
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Analyse how Golding uses language, form and structure to present ideas in Lord of the Flies.
- Explain how the novel's context shapes its meanings and the writer's intentions.
- Construct a clear critical argument supported by precise textual evidence from the whole novel.
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Modern texts
AQA Anthology Telling Tales
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Analyse how writers use language, form and structure to create meaning in the stories in Telling Tales.
- Explain how the stories explore their themes and ideas in depth.
- Construct a clear critical response supported by precise textual evidence from the named story.
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Modern texts
George Orwell Animal Farm
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Analyse how Orwell uses language, form and structure to present power and corruption.
- Explain the significance of context in shaping the novel's themes and messages.
- Construct a coherent analytical essay using textual evidence to support interpretations.
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Modern texts
Meera Syal Anita and Me
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Analyse how Syal uses language, form and structure to present identity and belonging.
- Explain the significance of context in shaping the novel's themes and messages.
- Construct a coherent analytical essay using textual evidence to support interpretations.
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Modern texts
Stephen Kelman Pigeon English
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Analyse how Kelman uses narrative voice and perspective to shape meaning in Pigeon English.
- Explain how themes of belonging, violence and grief are developed across the novel as a whole.
- Construct a coherent, evidence-based argument about the whole novel, supported by precise remembered references.
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Modern texts
Kit de Waal My Name is Leon (First teaching 2023, first exam 2025)
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Analyse how de Waal uses narrative voice and structure to shape meaning in My Name is Leon.
- Explain how themes of family, race and loss are developed across the novel as a whole.
- Construct a coherent, evidence-based argument in response to an essay question about the novel as a whole.
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Poetry
Students will study one cluster of poems taken from the AQA poetry anthology, Poems Past and Present. There is a choice of three clusters, each containing 15 poems. The poems in each cluster are thematically linked and were written between 1789 and the present day.
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Know the content, themes and techniques of all 15 poems in the chosen cluster.
- Analyse how poets use form, structure and language to present ideas and themes.
- Compare poems effectively, integrating context and using precise evidence.
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Poetry
Love and Relationships
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the range of love and relationships presented in the cluster's poems.
- Analyse how poets use form, structure and language to explore love and relationships.
- Compare poems effectively, integrating context and using precise evidence.
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Poetry
Power and Conflict
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Know the poems in the Power and Conflict cluster and their central ideas about power and conflict.
- Analyse how poets use language, form and structure to present power and conflict.
- Compare two poems effectively in response to a focused question.
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Poetry
Worlds and Lives (First teaching 2023, first exam 2025)
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Know the poems in the Worlds and Lives cluster and their central ideas about worlds and lives.
- Analyse how poets use language, form and structure to present worlds and lives.
- Compare two poems effectively in response to a focused question.
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Poetry
Students should study all 15 poems in their chosen cluster and be prepared to write about any of them in the examination.
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Students can identify and explain key themes, structural features, and language techniques in all 15 poems of their chosen cluster.
- Students can select an appropriate second poem and make meaningful comparisons with the named poem in an exam response.
- Students can use textual evidence effectively to support their interpretations of poems.
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Poetry anthology: Love and Relationships
Before You Were Mine
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Explain Carol Ann Duffy's presentation of the mother in Before You Were Mine using precise textual references.
- Analyse how language, form and structure create meaning in Before You Were Mine.
- Compare Before You Were Mine with suitable poems from the Love and Relationships cluster, integrating relevant context.
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Poetry anthology: Love and Relationships
Climbing My Grandfather
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Explain Andrew Waterhouse's presentation of the grandfather in Climbing My Grandfather using precise textual references.
- Analyse how language, form and structure create meaning in Climbing My Grandfather.
- Compare Climbing My Grandfather with suitable poems from the Love and Relationships cluster, integrating relevant context.
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Poetry anthology: Love and Relationships
Eden Rock
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Explain Charles Causley's central argument in Eden Rock using precise textual references.
- Analyse how language, form and structure create meaning in Eden Rock.
- Compare Eden Rock with suitable poems from the Love and Relationships cluster, integrating relevant context.
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Poetry anthology: Love and Relationships
Follower
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Explain Seamus Heaney's central argument in Follower using precise textual references.
- Analyse how language, form and structure create meaning in Follower.
- Compare Follower with suitable poems from the Love and Relationships cluster, integrating relevant context.
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Poetry anthology: Love and Relationships
Letters From Yorkshire
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Explain Maura Dooley's central argument in Letters From Yorkshire using precise textual references.
- Analyse how language, form and structure create meaning in Letters From Yorkshire.
- Compare Letters From Yorkshire with suitable poems from the Love and Relationships cluster, integrating relevant context.
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Poetry anthology: Love and Relationships
Love’s Philosophy
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Explain Shelley's presentation of the speaker's argument in Love’s Philosophy using precise textual references.
- Analyse how language, form and structure create meaning in Love’s Philosophy.
- Compare Love’s Philosophy with suitable poems from the Love and Relationships cluster, integrating relevant context.
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Poetry anthology: Love and Relationships
Mother, any distance
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Explain Simon Armitage's central argument in Mother, any distance using precise textual references.
- Analyse how language, form and structure create meaning in Mother, any distance.
- Compare Mother, any distance with suitable poems from the Love and Relationships cluster, integrating relevant context.
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Poetry anthology: Love and Relationships
Neutral Tones
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Explain Thomas Hardy's central argument in Neutral Tones using precise textual references.
- Analyse how language, form and structure create meaning in Neutral Tones.
- Compare Neutral Tones with suitable poems from the Love and Relationships cluster, integrating relevant context.
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Poetry anthology: Love and Relationships
Porphyria’s Lover
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Explain Browning's presentation of the speaker's character in Porphyria’s Lover using precise textual references.
- Analyse how language, form and structure create meaning in Porphyria’s Lover.
- Compare Porphyria’s Lover with suitable poems from the Love and Relationships cluster, integrating relevant context.
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Poetry anthology: Love and Relationships
Singh Song!
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Explain Daljit Nagra's central argument in Singh Song! using precise textual references.
- Analyse how language, form and structure create meaning in Singh Song!.
- Compare Singh Song! with suitable poems from the Love and Relationships cluster, integrating relevant context.
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Poetry anthology: Love and Relationships
Sonnet 29 – ‘I think of thee!’
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Explain Elizabeth Barrett Browning's central argument in Sonnet 29 – ‘I think of thee!’ using precise textual references.
- Analyse how language, form and structure create meaning in Sonnet 29 – ‘I think of thee!’.
- Compare Sonnet 29 – ‘I think of thee!’ with suitable poems from the Love and Relationships cluster, integrating relevant context.
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Poetry anthology: Love and Relationships
The Farmer’s Bride
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Explain Charlotte Mew's central argument in The Farmer’s Bride using precise textual references.
- Analyse how language, form and structure create meaning in The Farmer’s Bride.
- Compare The Farmer’s Bride with suitable poems from the Love and Relationships cluster, integrating relevant context.
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Poetry anthology: Love and Relationships
Walking Away
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Explain Cecil Day-Lewis's central argument in Walking Away using precise textual references.
- Analyse how language, form and structure create meaning in Walking Away.
- Compare Walking Away with suitable poems from the Love and Relationships cluster, integrating relevant context.
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Poetry anthology: Love and Relationships
When We Two Parted
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Explain Byron's presentation of the speaker's grief in When We Two Parted using precise textual references.
- Analyse how language, form and structure create meaning in When We Two Parted.
- Compare When We Two Parted with suitable poems from the Love and Relationships cluster, integrating relevant context.
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Poetry anthology: Love and Relationships
Winter Swans
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Explain Owen Sheers's presentation of the couple's relationship in Winter Swans using precise textual references.
- Analyse how language, form and structure create meaning in Winter Swans.
- Compare Winter Swans with suitable poems from the Love and Relationships cluster, integrating relevant context.
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Poetry anthology: Power and Conflict
Extract from ‘The Prelude’
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Explain William Wordsworth's central argument in Extract from ‘The Prelude’ using precise textual references.
- Analyse how language, form and structure create meaning in Extract from ‘The Prelude’.
- Compare Extract from ‘The Prelude’ with suitable poems from the Power and Conflict cluster, integrating relevant context.
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Poetry anthology: Power and Conflict
Bayonet Charge
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Explain Ted Hughes's central argument in Bayonet Charge using precise textual references.
- Analyse how language, form and structure create meaning in Bayonet Charge.
- Compare Bayonet Charge with suitable poems from the Power and Conflict cluster, integrating relevant context.
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Poetry anthology: Power and Conflict
Checking Out Me History
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Explain John Agard's central argument in Checking Out Me History using precise textual references.
- Analyse how language, form and structure create meaning in Checking Out Me History.
- Compare Checking Out Me History with suitable poems from the Power and Conflict cluster, integrating relevant context.
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Poetry anthology: Power and Conflict
Exposure
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Explain Wilfred Owen's central argument in Exposure using precise textual references.
- Analyse how language, form and structure create meaning in Exposure.
- Compare Exposure with suitable poems from the Power and Conflict cluster, integrating relevant context.
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Poetry anthology: Power and Conflict
Kamikaze
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Explain Beatrice Garland's central argument in Kamikaze using precise textual references.
- Analyse how language, form and structure create meaning in Kamikaze.
- Compare Kamikaze with suitable poems from the Power and Conflict cluster, integrating relevant context.
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Poetry anthology: Power and Conflict
London
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Explain William Blake's central argument in London using precise textual references.
- Analyse how language, form and structure create meaning in London.
- Compare London with suitable poems from the Power and Conflict cluster, integrating relevant context.
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Poetry anthology: Power and Conflict
My Last Duchess
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Explain Robert Browning's central argument in My Last Duchess using precise textual references.
- Analyse how language, form and structure create meaning in My Last Duchess.
- Compare My Last Duchess with suitable poems from the Power and Conflict cluster, integrating relevant context.
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Poetry anthology: Power and Conflict
Ozymandias
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Explain Percy Bysshe Shelley's central argument in Ozymandias using precise textual references.
- Analyse how language, form and structure create meaning in Ozymandias.
- Compare Ozymandias with suitable poems from the Power and Conflict cluster, integrating relevant context.
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Poetry anthology: Power and Conflict
Poppies
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Explain Jane Weir's central argument in Poppies using precise textual references.
- Analyse how language, form and structure create meaning in Poppies.
- Compare Poppies with suitable poems from the Power and Conflict cluster, integrating relevant context.
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Poetry anthology: Power and Conflict
Remains
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Explain Simon Armitage's central argument in Remains using precise textual references.
- Analyse how language, form and structure create meaning in Remains.
- Compare Remains with suitable poems from the Power and Conflict cluster, integrating relevant context.
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Poetry anthology: Power and Conflict
Storm on the Island
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Explain Seamus Heaney's central argument in Storm on the Island using precise textual references.
- Analyse how language, form and structure create meaning in Storm on the Island.
- Compare Storm on the Island with suitable poems from the Power and Conflict cluster, integrating relevant context.
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Poetry anthology: Power and Conflict
The Charge of the Light Brigade
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Explain Alfred Lord Tennyson's central argument in The Charge of the Light Brigade using precise textual references.
- Analyse how language, form and structure create meaning in The Charge of the Light Brigade.
- Compare The Charge of the Light Brigade with suitable poems from the Power and Conflict cluster, integrating relevant context.
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Poetry anthology: Power and Conflict
The Emigrée
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Explain Carol Rumens's central argument in The Emigrée using precise textual references.
- Analyse how language, form and structure create meaning in The Emigrée.
- Compare The Emigrée with suitable poems from the Power and Conflict cluster, integrating relevant context.
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Poetry anthology: Power and Conflict
Tissue
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Explain Imtiaz Dharker's central argument in Tissue using precise textual references.
- Analyse how language, form and structure create meaning in Tissue.
- Compare Tissue with suitable poems from the Power and Conflict cluster, integrating relevant context.
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Poetry anthology: Power and Conflict
War Photographer
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Explain Carol Ann Duffy's central argument in War Photographer using precise textual references.
- Analyse how language, form and structure create meaning in War Photographer.
- Compare War Photographer with suitable poems from the Power and Conflict cluster, integrating relevant context.
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Poetry anthology: Worlds and Lives
A Century Later
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Explain Imtiaz Dharker's central argument in A Century Later using precise textual references.
- Analyse how language, form and structure create meaning in A Century Later.
- Compare A Century Later with suitable poems from the Worlds and Lives cluster, integrating relevant context.
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Poetry anthology: Worlds and Lives
A Portable Paradise
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Explain Roger Robinson's central argument in A Portable Paradise using precise textual references.
- Analyse how language, form and structure create meaning in A Portable Paradise.
- Compare A Portable Paradise with suitable poems from the Worlds and Lives cluster, integrating relevant context.
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Poetry anthology: Worlds and Lives
A Wider View
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Explain Seni Seneviratne's central argument in A Wider View using precise textual references.
- Analyse how language, form and structure create meaning in A Wider View.
- Compare A Wider View with suitable poems from the Worlds and Lives cluster, integrating relevant context.
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Poetry anthology: Worlds and Lives
England in 1819
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Explain Percy Bysshe Shelley's central argument in England in 1819 using precise textual references.
- Analyse how language, form and structure create meaning in England in 1819.
- Compare England in 1819 with suitable poems from the Worlds and Lives cluster, integrating relevant context.
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Poetry anthology: Worlds and Lives
Homing
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Explain Liz Berry's central argument in Homing using precise textual references.
- Analyse how language, form and structure create meaning in Homing.
- Compare Homing with suitable poems from the Worlds and Lives cluster, integrating relevant context.
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Poetry anthology: Worlds and Lives
In a London Drawingroom
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Explain George Eliot's central argument in In a London Drawingroom using precise textual references.
- Analyse how language, form and structure create meaning in In a London Drawingroom.
- Compare In a London Drawingroom with suitable poems from the Worlds and Lives cluster, integrating relevant context.
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Poetry anthology: Worlds and Lives
Like an Heiress
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Explain the development of the speaker's feelings and ideas in Like an Heiress using precise textual references.
- Analyse how language, form and structure create meaning in Like an Heiress.
- Compare Like an Heiress with suitable poems from the Worlds and Lives cluster, integrating relevant context.
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Poetry anthology: Worlds and Lives
Lines Written in Early Spring
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Explain William Wordsworth's central argument in Lines Written in Early Spring using precise textual references.
- Analyse how language, form and structure create meaning in Lines Written in Early Spring.
- Compare Lines Written in Early Spring with suitable poems from the Worlds and Lives cluster, integrating relevant context.
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Poetry anthology: Worlds and Lives
Name Journeys
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Explain Raman Mundair's central argument in Name Journeys using precise textual references.
- Analyse how language, form and structure create meaning in Name Journeys.
- Compare Name Journeys with suitable poems from the Worlds and Lives cluster, integrating relevant context.
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Poetry anthology: Worlds and Lives
On an Afternoon Train from Purley to Victoria, 1955
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Explain James Berry's central argument in On an Afternoon Train from Purley to Victoria, 1955 using precise textual references.
- Analyse how language, form and structure create meaning in On an Afternoon Train from Purley to Victoria, 1955.
- Compare On an Afternoon Train from Purley to Victoria, 1955 with suitable poems from the Worlds and Lives cluster, integrating relevant context.
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Poetry anthology: Worlds and Lives
pot
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Explain Shamshad Khan's central argument in pot using precise textual references.
- Analyse how language, form and structure create meaning in pot.
- Compare pot with suitable poems from the Worlds and Lives cluster, integrating relevant context.
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Poetry anthology: Worlds and Lives
Shall earth no more inspire thee
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Explain Emily Brontë's central argument in Shall earth no more inspire thee using precise textual references.
- Analyse how language, form and structure create meaning in Shall earth no more inspire thee.
- Compare Shall earth no more inspire thee with suitable poems from the Worlds and Lives cluster, integrating relevant context.
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Poetry anthology: Worlds and Lives
The Jewellery Maker
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Explain Louisa Adjoa Parker’s central argument in The Jewellery Maker using precise textual references.
- Analyse how language, form and structure create meaning in The Jewellery Maker.
- Compare The Jewellery Maker with suitable poems from the Worlds and Lives cluster, integrating relevant context.
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Poetry anthology: Worlds and Lives
Thirteen
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Explain Caleb Femi's central argument in Thirteen using precise textual references.
- Analyse how language, form and structure create meaning in Thirteen.
- Compare Thirteen with suitable poems from the Worlds and Lives cluster, integrating relevant context.
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Poetry anthology: Worlds and Lives
With Birds You’re Never Lonely
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Explain Raymond Antrobus’s central argument in With Birds You’re Never Lonely using precise textual references.
- Analyse how language, form and structure create meaning in With Birds You’re Never Lonely.
- Compare With Birds You’re Never Lonely with suitable poems from the Worlds and Lives cluster, integrating relevant context.
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Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Analyse how Shakespeare uses language, form and structure to present characters and themes in Romeo and Juliet.
- Select and embed relevant quotations from the extract and the wider play to support a sustained interpretation.
- Connect contextual ideas about love, family and fate to the play's dramatic effects and meanings.
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Shakespeare
Students will study one play from the list of six set texts. Students should study the whole text.
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Read and understand the whole of one set Shakespeare play.
- Explain how characters, themes and dramatic techniques develop across the play.
- Use whole-text knowledge to support analysis of an extract and the play as a whole.
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Shakespeare
Macbeth
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Demonstrate whole-text knowledge of Macbeth's plot, characters and themes.
- Analyse how Shakespeare uses language, form and structure to create meaning.
- Connect the play to its context and support interpretations with accurate references.
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Shakespeare
The Tempest
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Analyse how Shakespeare uses language, form and structure to present power, magic and reconciliation in The Tempest.
- Select and embed relevant quotations from the extract and the wider play to support a sustained interpretation.
- Connect contextual ideas about exploration, colonialism and theatre to the play's dramatic effects and meanings.
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Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Analyse how Shakespeare uses language, form and structure to present characters and themes in The Merchant of Venice.
- Construct a coherent, evidence-based interpretation of the play that responds to the extract and the whole text.
- Use relevant contextual understanding to deepen analysis of the play's ideas and audience effects.
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Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Analyse how Shakespeare uses language, form and structure to present characters and themes in Much Ado About Nothing.
- Construct a coherent, evidence-based interpretation that responds to both the extract and the play as a whole.
- Use relevant contextual understanding to deepen analysis of the play's ideas and its effects on audiences.
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Shakespeare
Julius Caesar
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Explain how Shakespeare presents a central character or theme across the whole play, using relevant evidence.
- Analyse the effects of Shakespeare's language, form and structural choices in both an extract and the wider text.
- Construct a coherent critical argument that connects textual detail, dramatic method and relevant contextual ideas.
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Skills - Reading comprehension and reading critically
critical reading: identifying the theme and distinguishing between themes; supporting a point of view by referring to evidence in the text; recognising the possibility of and evaluating different responses to a text; using understanding of writers’ social, historical and cultural contexts to inform evaluation; making an informed personal response that derives from analysis and evaluation of the text
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Students can identify and distinguish between themes in a text, explaining how they differ.
- Students can support a point of view with well-chosen textual evidence and evaluate alternative responses.
- Students can use contextual understanding to inform evaluation and construct an informed personal response.
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Skills - Reading comprehension and reading critically
evaluation of a writer’s choice of vocabulary, grammatical and structural features: analysing and evaluating how language, structure, form and presentation contribute to quality and impact; using linguistic and literary terminology for such evaluation
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Analyse how specific vocabulary choices create particular effects.
- Evaluate how grammatical and structural features contribute to meaning and impact.
- Use linguistic and literary terminology accurately to discuss writer’s choices.
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Skills - Reading comprehension and reading critically
comparing texts: comparing and contrasting texts studied, referring where relevant to theme, characterisation, context (where known), style and literary quality; comparing two texts critically with respect to the above
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Compare and contrast how themes and characterisation are presented in two texts.
- Refer to relevant context to illuminate comparisons between texts.
- Evaluate the style and literary quality of two texts critically.
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Skills - Reading comprehension and reading critically
literal and inferential comprehension: understanding a word, phrase or sentence in context; exploring aspects of plot, characterisation, events and settings; distinguishing between what is stated explicitly and what is implied; explaining motivation, sequence of events, and the relationship between actions or events
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Students can identify explicit information and infer implied meanings from a word, phrase or sentence in context.
- Students can analyse how plot, characterisation, events and settings contribute to meaning.
- Students can explain character motivation and trace the sequence and relationships between actions or events.
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Skills - Writing
producing clear and coherent text: writing effectively about literature for a range of purposes such as: to describe, explain, summarise, argue, analyse and evaluate; discussing and maintaining a point of view; selecting and emphasising key points; using relevant quotation and using detailed textual references
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Students can produce clear and coherent essays that maintain a consistent point of view.
- Students can select relevant quotations and detailed textual references to support their arguments.
- Students can adapt their writing style to suit different purposes, such as describing, arguing, or evaluating.
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Skills - Writing
accurate Standard English: accurate spelling, punctuation and grammar.
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Students can spell common and complex words accurately in their writing.
- Students can use punctuation correctly to clarify meaning and structure sentences.
- Students can construct grammatically accurate sentences using Standard English.
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The 19th-century novel
Students will study one novel from the list of seven set texts. Students should study the whole text.
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Demonstrate knowledge of the whole set novel, including plot, character and structure.
- Analyse how the writer's methods create meaning and effects in an extract and across the whole text.
- Build a critical response that uses textual evidence and relevant contextual understanding to support an interpretation.
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The 19th-century novel
Robert Louis Stevenson The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Analyse how Stevenson uses language, form and structure to present duality across the novella.
- Explain how the novella's context shapes its themes and the reader's response.
- Construct a coherent argument that moves from close analysis of an extract to the whole text.
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The 19th-century novel
Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Analyse how Dickens uses language, form and structure to present Scrooge's transformation.
- Explain how the novella's context shapes its themes and the reader's response.
- Construct a coherent argument that moves from close analysis of an extract to the whole text.
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The 19th-century novel
Charles Dickens Great Expectations (1867)
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Analyse how Dickens uses narrative voice, setting and symbolism to present Pip's moral development.
- Evaluate the significance of contextual ideas about class, crime and empire in shaping the novel's meanings.
- Construct a sustained critical argument supported by precise textual evidence from the extract and the wider novel.
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The 19th-century novel
Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Analyse how Brontë uses narrative voice, imagery and Gothic conventions to present Jane's inner life and development.
- Evaluate the significance of contextual ideas about gender, class and religion in shaping the novel's meanings.
- Construct a sustained critical argument supported by precise textual evidence from the extract and the wider novel.
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The 19th-century novel
Mary Shelley Frankenstein (1831)
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Analyse how Shelley uses narrative structure and multiple narrators to shape meaning and reader response.
- Evaluate the presentation of Victor, the creature and key themes using precise textual evidence.
- Relate Gothic and Romantic contexts to specific language, structural and thematic choices in the novel.
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The 19th-century novel
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice
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Key Learning Objectives:
- Analyse how Austen's narrative voice and irony shape meaning and reader judgement.
- Evaluate the presentation of Elizabeth, Darcy and key themes using precise textual evidence.
- Relate Regency social and historical contexts to specific language, structural and thematic choices in the novel.
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The 19th-century novel
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Sign of Four
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Students can explain how Doyle uses the detective genre and narrative structure to engage the reader and develop themes.
- Students can analyse the presentation of key characters, such as Holmes, Watson and Small, and their significance within the novel.
- Students can evaluate the influence of Victorian social and historical context on the novel's themes and characters.
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Unseen poetry
In preparing for the unseen poetry section of the examination students should experience a wide range of poetry in order to develop their ability to closely analyse unseen poems. They should be able to analyse and compare key features such as their content, theme, structure and use of language.
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Students can closely analyse an unseen poem, commenting on content, theme, structure, and language with supporting evidence.
- Students can compare two unseen poems, identifying and explaining key similarities and differences in the poets' methods.
- Students can apply analytical skills to a range of poetic forms and styles, demonstrating flexibility and confidence.
Regulatory & Verification Details
- Qualification Number (QN)
- 601/4447/6
- Regulated Status
- Available to learners
- Awarding Body
- AQA
- Qualification Type
- GCSE (9 to 1)
- Operational Start
- Sept 2015