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Advice on GCSE English Literature’s Internally Assessed component.
There are 3 assignments which are assessed in accordance with the 4 Assessment Objectives (AO).
AO1: Respond to texts critically, sensitively and in detail, selecting appropriate ways to convey their response, using textual evidence as appropriate.
AO2: Explore how language, structure and forms contribute to the meanings of texts, considering different approaches to texts and alternative interpretations.
AO3: Explore relationships and comparisons between texts, selecting and evaluating material.
AO4: Relate texts to their social, cultural and historical background.
Assignment A: Response to Poetry published after 1914
Chosen from the poets listed: Auden, Duffy, Frost, Heaney, Lockhead, Montague, Nichols, Owen, RS Thomas or Yeats (those in bold can be used as in Assignment A English).
This assignment must address Assessment Objectives 1, 2 and 3.
Assignment B: Response to a Shakespeare play
This assignment involves the study of a complete play and must address Assessment Objectives 1, 2, and 4.
Assignment C: Response to prose published before 1914
Chosen from the writers listed – Jane Austen, Ambrose Bierce, Charlotte Bronte, Daniel Corkey, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, James Joyce, Sheridan Le Fanu, Mary Shelley or Bram Stoker. This assignment must address Assessment Objectives 1, 2 and 4.
Where AO4 is addressed the material must be integrated into the body of the assignment and reflect understanding of the work; it should not be an “add-on” or a biographical synopsis.