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Delve into a collection of poetry:
Explore a specific poet (e.g., John Keats, Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, Carol Ann Duffy).
Read an anthology of poetry from a particular movement (e.g., Romanticism, Modernism, War Poetry).
Read a play by a significant dramatist (other than Shakespeare):
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth, Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett.
As you read, keep a reading journal focusing on:
Your initial reactions and feelings.
Any unfamiliar vocabulary or concepts.
Interesting literary techniques (imagery, symbolism, metaphor, narrative structure).
Questions that arise about the characters, themes, or author's purpose.
How the text reflects the time it was written.
The Great Gatsby, The Handmaid's Tale, All My Sons.
Over the Summer holidays please make sure you have read ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ in its entirety as we will be diving straight into it in September! You should also aim to read ‘All My Sons’ before we begin the course.
For our study of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ you will need to have an understanding of the dystopian genre so choose 2 of the following texts to read: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Power by Naomi Alderman
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Research the key features of dystopian literature
The Great Gatsby, The Handmaid's Tale, All My Sons - any performance.
Watch the following YouTube videos:
How 1950s dystopian novels inspired Margaret Atwood to write ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Summary (Full Book in JUST 5 Minutes)
Massolit : https://www.massolit.io/users/sign_in (you should already have an account from your GCSE studies, but if you don’t please create one with your school email address)
Seneca Learning: https://senecalearning.com/en-GB/
The British Library: https://www.bl.uk/
EMC Magazine & Other Library resources: https://sites.google.com/birkhs.gdst.net/bhsalibrary/eResources/ks5-e-reference
Copies of the following texts:
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Handmaid’s tale by Margaret Atwood
All My Sons by Arthur Miller
Non-essential:
A Critical Study Guide for the AQA AS and A Level English Language and Literature Paris Anthology
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