2024 preparatory work
Preparing for Borlase
It is important that all students are confident that they can make an effective, purposeful start to their A level courses in September 2023. All departments have been asked to outline preparatory work that students should complete over the summer.
Preparatory work
There are two pieces on preparatory work that students must complete:
1) 500 word essay to be brought to your first English lesson:
Explore Agbabi's presentation of control in her poem 'Eat Me'.
2) Set Reading:
Poems of the Decade (2001-2011)
http://asfcenglish.weebly.com/uploads/2/2/5/0/22509194/poems_of_the_decade.pdf
(THE FOLLOWING POEMS ARE NO LONGER ASSESSED: Inheritance, A Leisure Centre is also a Temple of Learning, The War Correspondent, The Map Woman, The Fox in the National Museum of Wales, Fantasia on a Theme of James Wright, You, Shiva and My Mum, Song)
Mrs Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf
Tess of the D'Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy
A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams)
http://jhampton.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/53101025/Streetcar.pdf
Completing this work is a minimum expectation and will aid you significantly in your studies.
Further Reading
Below is a recommended reading list to aid with your projects and to enhance your preparation for the A-level course.
