GCE AS/AEnglish Literature B (5746, 6746)

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Read/download in PDF format:

• Unit 5 - Support Booklet (174KB)
  The latest version is: version 1.1
  
• Unit 6 - Support Booklet (210KB)
  The latest version is: version 1.1
  
• Guidance Notes - Compare and Contrast (66KB)
  This document looks at the assessment objective AO2ii, and suggests ways to encourage students to compare texts in Unit 6.
  
• Guidance Notes - The Importance of Genre (73KB)
  This document looks at ways of encouraging students to use genre as a means of analysing texts.
  
• Guidance Notes - Exploring AO3 (70KB)
  
  
• Guidance Notes - Exploring AO4 (62KB)
  
  

Teachers' Guides

A Teacher's Guide is available in this subject. A copy has been sent to all registered AQA examination centres. Further printed copies can be purchased from AQA Publications Department. These Guides are not available on-line.

The Guide contains:

• A look at how the specification links to the AQA(NEAB) Advanced Level English Syllabus 4121, from which it has been derived
• A review of the subject content
• Some possible curriculum models into which the specification is fitted
• An exploration of how synoptic assessment has been addressed
• A consideration of assessment issues and in particular how each module is designed to test certain assessment objectives
• Advice on teaching approaches for each module
• An exploration of Coursework issues including suggested coursework approaches and suggestions for coursework titles
• A section on how the specification can be used in the delivery of the main key skills