English · A Level · £6.99
A Level English Literature
Scheme of Work
Forty-five pages across two years, board-neutral by construction: every requirement stated here comes from the DfE subject content or from Ofqual’s subject level conditions, never from one board’s set text list. The eight-text minimum, the three pre-1900 texts and the post-2000 requirement are planned in a table before any title is chosen. The non-examined assessment gets a full term with the question signed off by Week 2 and plan-level feedback only from Week 7, and the unseen is taught as a five-step procedure rather than as a talent.
£6.99The A Level scheme: 6 units across Year 12 and Year 13, 45 pages
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- 1aReading at A Level: Close Analysis and the Critical Voice
- 1bDrama and Shakespeare: Meanings Made in Performance
- 1cPoetry, and Connections Across Texts
- 2aThe Non-Examined Assessment: an Independent Comparative Study
- 2bContemporary Writing, Interpretation, and the Unseen
- 2cSynoptic Fluency: Diagnosis, Argument and the Examinations
Ten sections per unit, in the same order every time. Weeks rather than single lessons, because A Level literature is timetabled in long blocks and the reading load is the real constraint.
The requirements are planned before the titles, because the genre balance is the constraint most often discovered late: two examples each of prose, poetry and drama is six of the eight texts before any other choice is made.
One diagram per unit draws the move that unit turns on: observation against argument, alternation against structure by idea, and the handover of the non-examined assessment.
- Written to
- The DfE subject content for AS and A level English literature, and Ofqual’s GCE subject level conditions
- Intended for
- heads of department, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it
- Extent
- 45 pages · 15 sections
The sequence
What this scheme of work covers, unit by unit
The 6 units of the A Level English Literature Scheme of Work, in teaching order, with the term each one runs in and the question it is built to answer.
1a
Reading at A Level: Close Analysis and the Critical Voice
Year 12 · Autumn · approx. 13 weeks · September – December
What is the difference between what a text says and what it does?
1b
Drama and Shakespeare: Meanings Made in Performance
Year 12 · Spring · approx. 11 weeks · January – March
Whose reading is it, when the text is a script?
1c
Poetry, and Connections Across Texts
Year 12 · Summer · approx. 12 weeks · April – July
What does putting two texts together show that neither shows alone?
2a
The Non-Examined Assessment: an Independent Comparative Study
Year 13 · Autumn · approx. 13 weeks · September – December
What can you argue that nobody has set you?
2b
Contemporary Writing, Interpretation, and the Unseen
Year 13 · Spring · approx. 11 weeks · January – March
How do you write about a text you have never met before?
2c
Synoptic Fluency: Diagnosis, Argument and the Examinations
Year 13 · Summer · approx. 6 weeks · April – May
You can read. Why are you still losing marks?
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