Hi Ladies,

Please find a digital copy of the curriculum overview we discussed in class. Familiarise yourself with the set texts and components for each half term.

Miss R

Term	Miss Roden	Miss Willson
Autumn 1	Unseen poetry: Ø  Diachronic approach to poetic movements/contextualisation. Ø  Subject terminology: poetic forms/conventions. Ø  Homework: tasks set on Blogger. Ø  Key critical text: On Poetry by Glyn Maxwell.	Unseen prose:   Ø  Diachronic approach to Literary movements. Ø  Subject terminology: literary analysis. Ø  Homework: analysis of extracts.
Autumn 2	Text: Othello Ø  Understanding the conventions of drama. Ø  Shakespeare’s place within the canon. Ø  New Historicist literary approach to the play. Ø  Close textual analysis. Ø  Homework: essays to be individually and collaboratively planned on Blogger.	Text: The Great Gatsby   Ø  The conventions of modernist literature. Ø  Context: The Jazz Age/post war literature & culture. Ø  Close textual analysis. Ø  Strategies for synthesis. Ø  Homework: essays.
Spring 1	Texts: The Handmaid’s Tale & Feminine Gospels Ø  Targeted intervention for Othello. Ø  Introduction to dystopian literature. Ø  Cultural context: America in the 1980s. Ø  Critical approaches: feminism/postmodernism/new historicism. Ø  Comparative analysis/synthesis of the two texts. Ø  Homework: poetic analysis/ essay planning.	Text: A Streetcar Named Desire   Ø  Conventions of contemporary Drama Ø  Social and historical context Ø  Character analysis/exploration of themes. Ø  Critical approaches: gender studies/new historicism. Ø  Homework: essay practice.
Spring 2	Continuation of Spring 1	Continuation of Spring 1
Summer 1	Text: Frankenstein (selected students) Ø  Social and historical context of 18th / 19th Century. Ø  Conventions of Gothic literature and associated terminology. Ø  Literary allusion and intertextuality.	Text: Dracula Ø  Social and historical context of 19th Century. Ø  Conventions of Gothic literature and associated terminology. Ø  Literary allusion and intertextuality.
Summer 2	Academic essay writing workshops. Drafting NEA.	Meeting the assessment objectives workshops. Drafting NEA.