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- Literary Form
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Specifications that use this resource:
- AS English Literature A 7711
- A-level English Literature A 7712
Teaching guide: Love through the ages
A range of resources to help you plan your teaching and assessment for the Love through the ages component of AS and A-level English Literature A.
How to use these resources
The sample assessment materials give you details about some of the aspects of Love through the ages each text covers. Don't forget to consult the specification for a list of possible aspects.
The example student responses with marking commentary act as models for the students and help you to assess their work.
AS resources
Paper 1, section a.
- Exemplar student response - lower band 4 - Othello
- Exemplar student response - middle band 4 - Othello
Paper 1, Section B
- Creating your own questions
- Exemplar student response - band 3
- Exemplar student response - lower band 4
- Exemplar student response - upper band 4
- Exemplar student response - band 5
- Specimen question commentary
Paper 2, Section A
The collection of unseen prose extracts can be used to support the learning objective of week 7 in our autumn term teaching plan (Co-teaching programme of study) - approaching unseen extracts essay writing skills.
Using the extracts allows students to:
- be able to apply the knowledge gained doing the prose study to the analysis of unseen prose extracts
- understand the demands of AS Paper 2, Section A
- learn how to structure a response to a practice exam question.
- Extract 1 - The Great Gatsby , F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Extract 2 - Far from the Madding Crowd , Thomas Hardy
- Extract 3 - Persuasion , Jane Austen
- Extract 4 - The Awakening , Kate Chopin
- Extract 5 - Atonement , Ian McEwan
- Extract 6 - The Rotters' Club , Jonathan Coe
- Exemplar student response - band 4 - The Age of Innocence
- Extract 5 - Atonement , Ian McEwan
Paper 2, Section B
- Exemplar student response - band 3 - Jane Eyre and Rebecca
- Exemplar student response - band 3 - The Great Gatsby and The Rotters' Club
- Exemplar student response - band 4 - The Great Gatsby and The Rotters' Club
- Specimen question commentary - comparing prose texts
A-level resources
- Specimen question commentary - The Winter's Tale
- Example answer - band 2 - The Winter's Tale
- Example answer - band 5 - The Winter's Tale
- Download the full package for Paper 1, Section A
- Exemplar student response - band 3 response
- Exemplar student response - band 5 response
- Specimen question commentary - unseen poetry
Paper 1, Section C
- Exemplar student response - band 2 - The Awakening and AQA Anthology of Love Poetry through the Ages: post-1900
- Exemplar student response - band 5 - The Awakening and AQA Anthology of Love Poetry through the Ages: post-1900
- Specimen question commentary - comparing texts
- AS and A-level English Literature A 7711; 7712
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