A-Level English Literature (H1/H2)
About
Literature can be challenging. I know. Sometimes, you know what a text is about, but struggle to explain what makes a particular passage significant.
My students at Point of View will learn to move beyond memorising interpretations and learn to engage with literary texts on their own terms. My classes explore how writers use language, structure and literary techniques to communicate ideas, while encouraging students to question, interpret and develop their own perspectives.
The goal isn't simply to know your texts inside out, but to understand them well enough to say something insightful.
Syllabus 9539
Online via Google Meet
$180/lesson (2h)
$150/lesson (1.5h)
Scope of Classes
1.
Poetry Analysis
+ Close reading and essential approaches to tackle unseen poetry
+ Identifying and interpreting literary techniques
+ Understanding how the interplay between form, style and language shapes meaning
+ Developing comparative analysis skills (for H2 Literature)
+ Constructing coherent and perceptive interpretations
2.
Prose Analysis
+ Understanding characterisation, narrative voice, and perspective
+ Exploring themes, symbolism, and contextual influences.
+ Analysing the author's use of language and narrative techniques
+ Developing strong thematic essay responses with passage-based analysis (including unseen PBQ)
3.
Drama Analysis
+ Understanding dramatic conventions, structure, and stagecraft
+ Analysing character relationships, conflict, and dialogue
+ Exploring how playwrights communicate ideas through dramas
+ Developing crticial insights for both passage-based and essay questions
4.
Critical Essay Writing
+ Interpreting set questions and identifying key demands
+ Developing clear and concise arguments and thesis statements
+ Moving beyond listing and observations towards critical analysis and evaluation
+ Refining expression and precision in writing
Covered Set Texts
For Papers 1 and 2/3:
Paper 1:
Julian Barnes: Arthur and George
Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre
Charles Dickens: Hard Times
Tan Twan Eng: The Garden of Evening Mist
Thomas Middleton and William Rowley: The Changeling
Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead William Shakespeare: The Winter’s Tale
Sean O’Casey: Juno and the Paycock and The Plough and the Stars
Paper 2/3:
William Shakespeare: King Lear
Henrik Ibsen: An Enemy of the People
Thomas Hardy: The Mayor of Casterbridge
Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
Emily Dickinson: selection of poems
John Donne: selection of poems
For Papers 2 or 3:
Paper 2:
John Keats: selection of poems
Percy Bysshe Shelley: selection of poems
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: selection of poems
Jane Austen: Persuasion
Ann Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
Paper 3:
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: A Grain of Wheat
Chinua Achebe: Anthills of the Savannah
Rohinton Mistry: Family Matters
David Malouf: Remembering Babylon
Edwin Thumboo: selection of poems
Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea