Circular
S/IF/86/05 November 2005
TO: The Principals of Post-primary Schools and Institutes
of Further and Higher Education
FOR CIRCULATION TO: The Head of the German Department
GCE Summer 2006
German
Literature/Society. New Prescribed Texts and Topics
Dear Colleague
CCEA would like to remind you that the choice of prescribed texts and topics for examination at both AS and A2 has been amended for first examination in Summer 2006. These changes are clearly indicated in the Specification. The revised list of Texts and Topics, with new prescriptions asterisked, is laid out below.
For examination in June 2006
Module 3
Section A
Section A comprises three questions, each offering an alternative, on a range of
set texts. Questions focus on the overall theme, plot and basic characterisation.
• König/Straube/Taylan: Oya dtv pocket*
• Dürrenmatt: Der Besuch der alten Dame Routledge
• König: Ich fühl mich so fifty-fifty dtv
Section B
Section B comprises three questions, each offering an alternative, on topics
reflecting German society.
The set topics are:
• Deutschland als Reiseland*
• Die Studie eines deutschen Films: Das Wunder von Bern (2003) von Sönke
Wortmann*
• Die Studie eines deutschen Films: Das Versprechen (1994) von Margarethe
von Trotta
The following texts and topics will no longer be examined at AS:
Böll: Best Stories
Ausländer in Deutschland
Österreich als Reiseland
Module 6
Section A
Section A comprises three questions, each offering an alternative, on a range of
set texts. Questions extend those skills introduced at AS by broadening the focus
on overall theme and plot to include in-depth study, character, author's style,
motivation and secondary themes.
The set texts are:
• Böll: Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum Nelson
• Frisch: Andorra Routledge
• Horváth: Jugend ohne Gott Suhrkamp/Nelson
Section B
Section B comprises three questions, each offering an alternative, on topics
reflecting German society.
The set society topics are:
• Berlin 1945-1990: Geschichte einer Teilung
• Die Weiße Rose*
• Das Leben in der DDR*
The following texts and topics will no longer be examined at A2:
Brecht: Der kaukasische Kreidekreis
Plenzdorf: Die neuen Leiden des jungen W
Die Jugend im Dritten Reich (1933 – 1945)
Das wiedervereinigte Deutschland
Die presse im deutschsprachigen Raum
You are also reminded that the new Section C on Responsive Writing will be first examined at A2 in June 2006.
The support booklet, Notes for Guidance is being updated to reflect these changes and will be available to download from our website next month. In the meantime please find enclosed a copy of the guidance material for the new prescriptions.
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