GCSE English Language and English Literature

The English Department follows the WJEC GCSE course.

Girls in years 10 and 11 study TWO GCSE courses:

• English Language

English Literature

English Language

60%

40% ControlledAssessment

Examination

English Language:Controlled Assessment

• Writing a Description• Writing a Story• Essay on ‘Of Mice and

Men’• Essay on a political

speech• Speaking and Listening

(debating, presenting and role play)

English Language: Examination

• Reading and responding to ‘unseen’ non-fiction texts (newspaper articles, leaflets…)

• Writing your own texts which convey information and express ideas.

English Literature

25%

75%

ControlledAssessment

Examination

English Literature: Controlled Assessment

• Essay on ‘linked texts’: poetry and Shakespeare (Macbeth)

English Literature: Examination

• Essay on ‘Of Mice and Men’

• Essay on ‘An Inspector Calls’

• Essay on ‘About a Boy’

• Essay comparing two ‘unseen’ poems

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