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Upper secondaryCode 9695

Literature in English

9 topics and 65 objectives, each one something you should be able to do.

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1Drama and Poetry8 objectives
  • Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Edward Albee (Section A, drama)
  • The Rover, Aphra Behn (Section A, drama)
  • Barber Shop Chronicles, Inua Ellams (Section A, drama)
  • The Tempest, William Shakespeare (Section A, drama)
  • Selected Poems from England’s Green, Zaffar Kunial (Section B, poetry)
  • Selected Poems from Ariel (1965), Sylvia Plath (Section B, poetry)
  • Selected Poems from Selected Poems, Christina Rossetti (Section B, poetry)
  • Songs of Ourselves, Volume 2: Selected Poems, new selection for 2026, 2027 and 2028 (Section B, poetry)
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2Prose and Unseen5 objectives
  • Stories of Ourselves, Volume 3: Selected Stories, new selection for 2027 and 2028 (Section A, prose)
  • A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh (Section A, prose)
  • The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead (Section A, prose)
  • The Yield, Tara June Winch (Section A, prose)
  • Unseen text: respond to an unseen text that may be poetry, prose or drama (Section B)
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3Shakespeare and Drama5 objectives
  • Henry IV, Part 1, William Shakespeare (Section A, Shakespeare)
  • The Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare (Section A, Shakespeare)
  • Sweat, Lynn Nottage (Section B, drama)
  • Kongi’s Harvest, Wole Soyinka (Section B, drama)
  • Our Country’s Good, Timberlake Wertenbaker (Section B, drama)
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4Pre- and Post-1900 Poetry and Prose12 objectives
  • Mansfield Park, Jane Austen (Section A, prose)
  • Selected Poems from Selected Poetry, George Gordon, Lord Byron (Section A, poetry)
  • The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale, Geoffrey Chaucer (Section A, poetry)
  • Middlemarch, George Eliot (Section A, prose)
  • Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy (Section A, prose)
  • Selected Sonnets, William Shakespeare (Section A, poetry)
  • Selected Poems from Poems, Elizabeth Bishop (Section B, poetry)
  • Waiting for the Barbarians, J M Coetzee (Section B, prose)
  • Selected Stories from Selected Stories, Katherine Mansfield (Section B, prose)
  • Selected Poems from Collected Poems (2016), Gabriel Okara (Section B, poetry)
  • The Overstory, Richard Powers (Section B, prose)
  • Selected Poems from Night Sky with Exit Wounds, Ocean Vuong (Section B, poetry)
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5Drama and Poetry8 objectives
  • Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Edward Albee (Section A, drama)
  • The Rover, Aphra Behn (Section A, drama)
  • Barber Shop Chronicles, Inua Ellams (Section A, drama)
  • The Tempest, William Shakespeare (Section A, drama)
  • Selected Poems from England’s Green, Zaffar Kunial (Section B, poetry)
  • Selected Poems from Ariel (1965), Sylvia Plath (Section B, poetry)
  • Selected Poems from Selected Poems, Christina Rossetti (Section B, poetry)
  • Songs of Ourselves, Volume 2: Selected Poems, new selection for 2026, 2027 and 2028 (Section B, poetry)
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6Prose and Unseen5 objectives
  • Graceland, Chris Abani (Section A, prose)
  • The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck (Section A, prose)
  • Stories of Ourselves, Volume 3: Selected Stories, new selection for 2027 and 2028 (Section A, prose)
  • The Yield, Tara June Winch (Section A, prose)
  • Unseen text: respond to an unseen text that may be poetry, prose or drama (Section B)
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7Shakespeare and Drama5 objectives
  • Henry IV, Part 1, William Shakespeare (Section A, Shakespeare)
  • The Winter’s Tale, William Shakespeare (Section A, Shakespeare)
  • Dunsinane, David Grieg (Section B, drama)
  • August: Osage County, Tracy Letts (Section B, drama)
  • Our Country’s Good, Timberlake Wertenbaker (Section B, drama)
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8Pre- and Post-1900 Poetry and Prose12 objectives
  • Mansfield Park, Jane Austen (Section A, prose)
  • Selected Poems from Selected Poetry, George Gordon, Lord Byron (Section A, poetry)
  • The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale, Geoffrey Chaucer (Section A, poetry)
  • A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens (Section A, prose)
  • Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy (Section A, prose)
  • Selected Sonnets, William Shakespeare (Section A, poetry)
  • Selected Poems from Collected Poems, Chinua Achebe (Section B, poetry)
  • Selected Poems from Poems, Elizabeth Bishop (Section B, poetry)
  • Waiting for the Barbarians, J M Coetzee (Section B, prose)
  • Selected Stories from Selected Stories, Katherine Mansfield (Section B, prose)
  • The Overstory, Richard Powers (Section B, prose)
  • Selected Poems from Night Sky with Exit Wounds, Ocean Vuong (Section B, poetry)
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9Assessment objectives5 objectives
  • Respond with understanding to literature written in many forms and coming from many cultures, appreciating the relevant contexts that throw light on the ways the texts can be read
  • Analyse how authors' decisions regarding language, form and structure bring about particular meanings and effects
  • Offer interpretations and opinions of your own on literary texts, based on knowledge of them
  • Communicate a response which is relevant, structured and supported, and suited to the study of literature
  • Discuss and evaluate the range of ways in which literary texts are judged and interpreted
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