Context

Literature: 

Students are encouraged to develop an interest in, and enjoyment of, literary studies through reading widely,  independently and critically.  They will be introduced to the traditions of English Literature covering drama, poetry and prose across time up to the modern age, as well as wider reading.

A Level Literature

Suggested activities: 

• Spend an hour researching the author F Scott Fitzgerald and the historical/ social context of his novel The Great Gatsby.  Below are some resources you could use:

https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/gatsby/

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/10/nyregion/a-fleeting-eras-timeless-chronicle.html

• Watch a film or theatre version of a Shakespeare play (other than Othello)

• Read some, or all, of one of the texts on the  General Recommended Reading List - you could access these via an audiobook on YouTube (or another platform) or borrow them from the Guille-Alles Library in town

Language and Literature: 

Students will develop their ability to use linguistic and analytical frameworks to comment on a wide range of spoken language and written texts. Students will become confident and reflective readers who can relate to literary and non-­literary texts and to the contexts in which they were produced.     

A Level Language and Literature

Suggested activities:

• Spend an hour researching the author Mary Shelley and the historical/ social context of her novel Frankenstein.  Below are some resources you could use:

https://www.biography.com/writer/mary-shelley

https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/frankenstein/context/

• Researching Paris:  Find out about the city of Paris; focus on its history, cuisine and culture.

https://en.parisinfo.com/

https://www.lonelyplanet.com/france/paris

• Read some or all of one of the texts on the  General Recommended Reading List - you could access these via an audiobook on YouTube (or another platform) or borrow them from the Guille-Alles Library in town

General Recommended Reading List for KS5 English 

C. Achebe Things Fall Apart (IB)

Jane Austen anything

Louis de Bernieres Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (IB)

Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre

Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights

Bill Bryson  Mother Tongue,  A Walk through the Woods (Lang/Lit)

Tim Butcher  Blood River

Angela Carter The Magic Toyshop

Wilkie Collins The Woman in White 

Charles Dickens anything

Sebastian Faulks Birdsong

F.Scott Fitzgerald Tender is the Night

E.M. Forster A Room with a View

John Fowles The French Lieutenant’s Woman

Thomas Hardy Tess of the D’Urbervilles

Susan Hill I’m the King of the Castle

Khaled Hosseini  A Thousand Splendid Suns 

Aldous Huxley Brave New World

K. Ishiguru The Remains of the Day 

Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird

Gabriel Garcìa Márquez Love in the Time of Cholera 

Haruki Marukami, The Elephant Vanishes 

Iain McEwan Atonement, On Chesil Beach

Toni Morrison Beloved

George Orwell Animal Farm, 1984 

Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar, any poems

Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea 

J.D. Salinger Catcher in the Rye 

Sophocles Oedipus Rex

Bram Stoker Dracula

Patrick Suskind Perfume 

Alice Walker The Color Purple 

Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest

Tennessee Williams A Glass Menagerie

Jeanette Winterson Oranges are not the only Fruit

Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway

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