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Year 11 - although things have changed, it is really important you keep up good study habits.
The resources below will be particularly useful if you are going on to study English Language, English Literature, combined English or Media at A-level.
The resources are not just for those studying English again but for all who wish to continue their learning and improve their wider reading before tackling your next stage of education - whatever that may be. Enjoy!
English & Media Centre Resources
English & Media Centre Resources
Below are some guides with additional resources that will help you prepare for:
English Literature A level
English Language A level
Media A level
English Language A level:
English Language A level:
There are two booklets below. The one on the left has all the work, tasks and information whereas the one on the right has some extra resources. Underneath this is a link to a folder of audio files which are used in some of the tasks.
Don't be fooled - English A level is TOTALLY DIFFERENT to GCSE. It is incredibly new, exciting and fun focusing on investigative and analytical work looking into how children learn to talk, social media, accent and dialect, language and the law! It is incredibly interesting. Do take a look and email jle@themountbattenschool.org if you have any issues downloading and want your own copies.
Alevel Lang Guide.pdfAlevel Lang Resource pack.pdfEnglish Literature guides:
English Literature guides:
Below is a set of guides and resources for studying English Literature at A-level. There are so many amazing and mature texts to look at here. There is a tick sheet on the first page of the booklet which might help you decide what to look at first. I thoroughly recommend taking a look!
Alevel Lit guide.pdfAlevel Lit resource pack.pdfMedia:
Media:
Leap_into_Media_InspirationAct.pdfGCSEPod:
GCSEPod:
Remember, you still have access to this resource and now would be a great time to read many of the other texts on the site. This includes exploring other poetry. In particular, you could read the following text for which there are GCSE Pod resources:
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
George Orwell's 1984
William Golding's Lord of the Flies
Meera Syal's Anita and Me
These texts are ones that students in other schools may have studied so are excellent to ensure you can join in conversations with them. The GCSEPods will also help you to understand things that we are not there to explain. The link to GCSE Pod is here but we suggest you open it in another browser.
A-level English Literature: TED talks:
A-level English Literature: TED talks:
Listen and make notes on the power of fiction TED talks (one or two will do). Write a speech to other year 11s convincing them that studying Literature at Alevel is key.
Great Websites for English Language A-level studies:
Great Websites for English Language A-level studies:
Wider Reading tasks for all:
Wider Reading tasks for all:
Choose three of the 10 books listed below to read in full. Write a 300-500 word review of each book and prepare a 3-5 minute presentation to deliver to the class which covers your views of the book. For a model on how to write a review, take a look at this review of a popular book choice for many A Level courses, The Handmaid’s Tale: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/sep/26/the-handmaids-talemargaretatwood
Banks, Iain – The Wasp Factory: A disturbing bildungsroman (coming of age story) surrounding the unusual protagonist of Frank growing up on a remote Scottish island.
Burgess, Anthony – A Clockwork Orange: A blistering exploration of social attitudes towards youth and aggression focusing on Alex, an ultra-violent psychopath who terrorises society in the near future.
Bronte, Emily – Wuthering Heights: A classic gothic romance centring on the familial tensions caused by the love between Catherine and Heathcliff amongst the moors.
Eugenides, Jeffrey – The Virgin Suicides: An exploration of youth and attitudes towards death and sex within a claustrophobic suburban environment.
Heller, Joseph – Catch 22: An absurdist and satirical take on maintaining your sanity in an insane world during WW2.
McEwan, Ian – Atonement: A powerful account of the ramifications of childish experience set against the backdrop of WW1.
Mitchell, David – Cloud Atlas: A Chinese box style segmented narrative exploring the connections across and between generations and lives.
Morrison, Toni – Beloved: A deeply uncomfortable and unsettling (in a good way) sort of supernatural take on guilt and motherhood in the context of slavery in America.
Orwell, George – 1984: Big Brother is watching you; a terrifying imagining of a future dystopian state covering authoritarianism and surveillance.
Palahniuk, Chuck – Fight Club: A stark and visceral look at masculinity within modern society.
Smith, Zadie – White Teeth: A dual account focusing on Britain’s relationships with former colonised countries and the resulting ideas surrounding immigration and identity. Tartt, Donna – The Secret History: An unusual crime mystery – not whodunit? but whydunit? Focusing on a small clique of students at a small elite college in Vermont.
Podcasts on context - helpful for literature:
Podcasts on context - helpful for literature:
Listen to both of the following podcasts and make notes on the key information given about Shakespeare:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000nd9
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000qnh
Listen to the following podcast and make note on the Industrial Revolution
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wqdc7
Listen to the two following podcasts on the French Revolution
Literary Movements:
Literary Movements:
Research a movement of literature and create a booklet that could be used to help another student studying this at A-level:
Post-colonial
Romantic
Post-modern
Modernism
Realism
Neo-classicism
Transcendentalism
Gothic
Enlightenment
Elizabethan
Middle-English
Unseen Fiction and post 1945 prose booklets:
Unseen Fiction and post 1945 prose booklets:
The following booklets are aimed at ensuring you read a range of texts but please be aware they are aimed towards a particular exam. Do not worry about the parts that mention the exam but perhaps read the key information, contextual information and extracts from text. Your college may not be doing the same exam board or the same texts so it is important that you just use this as wider reading. There are also questions on the key texts which you could use to practice the key skills that will be needed at A-level.
Year 11 Revision Booklets
Year 11 Revision Booklets
The English Language Booklet
Y11 Lang Revision Booklet 2020.pdfThe English Literature Booklet
Literature Revision Booklet.pdfPage updated
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