GCSE students at Littleover Community School study two GCSEs in their English lessons: Language and Literature. Lessons will be shared amongst these subjects. Though the content may be different, a lot of the skills are transferable: the ability to phrase and structure ideas cogently; accuracy of spelling, punctuation and grammar; close textual analysis; making comparisons between texts; and formation of interpretations. For copies of texts studied, see below.
Exam Board and Specification
Exam board: Edexcel
Topics/Skills Taught
Year 10
19th Century Novel
Shakespeare Play
Unseen Fiction Extract Analysis
Imaginative Writing
Transactional Writing
Unseen Non-fiction Extracts Analysis
First Half of Poetry Anthology
Year 11
Modern Play
Spoken Language Endorsement Presentation
Second Half of Poetry Anthology
Unseen Poetry
Revision of other Literature Texts
Revision of Unseen Fiction Extract Analysis
Revision of Imaginative Writing
Revision of Transactional Writing
Revision of Unseen Non-fiction Extract Analysis
Extra-Curricular Opportunities
Production visits.
Themed writing competitions.
Copies of the Literature Texts
We will provide all pupils with copies of the texts to study. However, as these will be used and reused by lots of year groups, we cannot allow them to be annotated (except the poetry anthology).
Below are details of the editions used in school if you are interested in purchasing them.
Shakespeare
Macbeth (Oxford School Shakespeare)
ISBN: 9780198324003
Romeo and Juliet (Oxford School Shakespeare)
ISBN: 9780198321668
Post-1914 Literature
An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley (Heinemann)
ISBN: 9780435232825
Blood Brothers by Willy Russell (Methuen Student Edition)
ISBN: 9780413695109\
19th-Century Novel
Silas Marner by George Eliot (Wordsworth Classics)
ISBN: 9781853262210
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (Wordsworth Classics)
ISBN: 9781853261213
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (Collins Classics)
ISBN: 9780007351008
