English

A/S Curriculum
The LVI group will be following the OCR English Literature course and studying E. M. Forster's novel 'A Room with a View' for coursework, Shakespeare's play 'The Tempest', Anne Stevenson's poetry 'Granny Scarecrow' and Charlotte Bronte's novel 'Jane Eyre'.

A2 Curriculum
Students will be studying Jane Smiley's novel 'A Thousand Acres as a Post 1914 Prose text, Shakespeare's play 'Measure for Measure, Blake's Selected poetry and American Prose focusing on F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel 'Tender is the Night' and 'The Color Purple' by Alice Walker.

There is considerable scope for wide reading in the A2 course and all students will have the opportunity to read the following:

Recommended American texts

F Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby

Alice Walker
Possessing the Secret of Joy
Meridian
The Third Life of Grange Copland

Toni Morrison
Beloved
The Bluest Eye
Jazz
Sula

Tim O'Brien
These Things We Carried

Recommended wider reading

Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale
Cat's Eye
The Blind Assassin
Oryx and Crake

Andrea Levy
Small Island

Kiran Desai
The Inheritance of Loss

Arundhati Roy
The God of Small Things

Jon McGregor
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

Ian McEwan
Atonement
Saturday

These are all wonderful novels that I would recommend to anyone reading this website.