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A-Level English Language
A-Level English Literature
Why English matters...
Why English matters...
1438_MLMF_PPT_English_012021.pptxYear 7
Language of advertising
Answering a job advert
Cultural capital through class readers - more employable due to wider cultural knowledge and understanding
Speaking and listening mini scheme
Year 8
Cultural capital through class readers - more employable due to wider cultural knowledge and understanding
Speaking and listening mini scheme
Prejudice/social responsibility - people skills for the life and workplace
Year 9
Cultural capital through class readers - more employable due to wider cultural knowledge and understanding
Speaking and listening mini scheme linked with politics
Public Speaking/ Presentations establish good practices for business
Year 10
Transactional Writing e.g. letters to MPs, newspapers etc.
Year 11
Journalistic writing - Articles and speeches
Year 12
Linguists
Research
Occupations - teacher, lawyers, doctors,
Media
Journalism
Journalism/ Creative writing opportunities
Managing coursework and deadlines
Scientific practices: data led investigations
Reading academic articles/essays
Year 13
Journalism/ Creative writing opportunities
Scientific practices: data led investigations
Reading academic articles/essays
Occupations - teacher, lawyers, doctor, speech therapists
Recommended Reading for English Language
AQA-7702-READING-LIST.pdfAdditional KS5 reading list https://www.stmaryleboneschool.com/pdf/English/KS5%20Reading%20List.pdf
Prospects summary of what English skills can be used for in the job market:
Nice article about how getting published by emag helped an A Level literature student get to Cambridge:
Where English graduates end up!
Recommended Reading for English Literature Click to expand
This list is by no means exhaustive (although it would take you a while to get through it all!) nor are there any guarantees that you will enjoy all the books included. It is merely a list of suggestions that will give you somewhere to start when faced with a whole library-full of possibilities. With any luck, there is something on this list that you will still be re-reading in 20 years time!
CLASSIC PROSE
Thomas Hardy – Jude The Obscure, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
W.M. Thackeray - Vanity Fair
Charles Dickens – Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby
Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
George Elliot – Middlemarch, Silas Marner
Henry Fielding - Tom Jones
Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton, North and South
Jane Austen – Emma, Pride and Prejudice
Mark Twain - Huckleberry Finn
Mary Shelley – Frankenstein
Bram Stoker – Dracula
Robert Louis Stevenson – Treasure Island, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Daniel Defoe – Robison Crusoe
Anthony Trollope – The Way We Live Now
Arthur Conan Doyle – The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes etc.
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Louisa May Alcott - Little Women
Henry James – The Turn of the Screw
20th CENTURY LITERATURE
Arnold Bennett - The Old Wives’ Tale
Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
E.M. Forster - Where Angels Fear to Tread, Howards End
D.H. Lawrence - Sons & Lovers
James Joyce - Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man
Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night
Virginia Woolf - Moments of Being, A Room of One’s Own, Mrs Dalloway
Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence
Graham Greene - Power & the Glory, Brighton Rock, The Comedians
George Orwell – 1984, Animal Farm
John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath
Ernest Hemingway - For Whom the Bell Tolls
Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited, The Sword of Honour Trilogy, Scoop
William Golding – The Lord of the Flies
Jack Kerouac – On the Road
John Le Carre – Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, The Night Manager
Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim
Ian McEwan - Atonement
Alice Walker - The Colour Purple
Joseph Heller - Catch 22
Margaret Drabble - The Millstone
John Fowles - The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid’s Tale
Aldous Huxley – Brave New World
Russell Hoban – Riddley Walker
Jonathan Franzen – The Corrections
Paul Auster – The New York Trilogy, Leviathan, The Book of Illusions
Truman Capote – In Cold Blood
Ken Kesey – One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
Daphne Du Maurier – Rebecca
Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
Muriel Spark - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things
JG Ballard – High Rise, Concrete Island
David Guterson – Snow Falling on Cedars
Literature from, or about, the rest of the world: *INDICATES PRE-1914 TEXTS
See also: http://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/other-cultures for other ideas.
Khalid Hosseini - A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Kite Runner (Afghanistan)
Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart (Africa)
H Rider Haggard – She (Africa)
Homer - The Iliad*, the Odyssey* (Ancient Greek)
Doris Pilkington - The Rabbit Proof Fence (Australia)
Jung Chang - Wild Swans (China)
Victor Hugo - Les Miserables* (French)
Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary* (French)
Alexandre Dumas – The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo (French)
Yann MarteL - Life of Pi (India)
Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things (India)
Salman Rushdie - Midnight’s Children (India)
Roddy Doyle - Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (Ireland)
Arthur Golden - Memoirs of a Geisha (Japan)
Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie - Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun (Nigeria)
Feodor Dostoevsky - Crime & Punishment*, The Brothers Karamazov* (Russia), Notes From the Underground.
Leo Tolstoy - War & Peace* (Russia)
J.M. Coetzee – Disgrace (South Africa)
Carlos Ruiz Zafon – Shadow of the Wind (Spain)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Spain)
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