English Years 10 to 11
English follows the AQA English Language (8700) and English Literature (8702) GCSE. Â This represents two separate GCSEsÂ
The English Language Syllabus consists of two papers.  Paper 1 Creative Reading and Writing and Paper 2 Different Writer’s Viewpoints and Perspectives.
It is 100% exam based and will produce a GCSE grade (1-9 – 9 being the highest).
It tests the students ability to:
- Understand implied meaning and read inference.
- To summarise.
- To comment on writer’s use of language and structure.
- To compare different texts.
- To evaluate texts.
The English Literature Syllabus (8702) consists of two papers:Â Â
- Paper 1: Â Shakespeare and the Nineteenth Century NovelÂ
- Paper 2: A Modern text and AQAs Anthology of poems – Power and Conflict and Unseen Poetry.
How to support your child
We are sure that you already do many of these things to support your child but here is a useful reminder for you to refer to:
- Encourage wider reading
- Ask them what they have learnt today
- Help them to structure revision for tests and assessments
- Make good use of BBC Bitesize
- Purchase texts which can be annotated
- Purchase revision guides
Web Links
Make good use of the web-links and revision guides.
Additional Reading
They may find the Oxford AQA English Language textbooks useful.
However these additional classic texts would support their Literature study.
- To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
- Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
- Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
- David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
- Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
- Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
- Lord of the Flies – William Golding
- Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
- Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Colour Purple – Alice Walker