Route map: two-year linear A-level
This resource is a suggested programme of study for a two-year linear A-level course. It assumes that students will not sit the AS exam but that all students will sit the A-level exam at the end of a two-year course.
A range of different factors, for example timetabling structures, may affect a teacher’s ability to follow this programme of study without some adaptation.
For example, if two teachers are sharing one class, each teacher will take a half-term’s ‘Text and skills focus’ and spread that over a whole term (in the Autumn term, teacher one would take the ‘bridging unit’ and ‘introduction to WW1 and its aftermath/ Modern times: Literature from 1945 to the present day’ and teacher two the ‘prose study’).
Year one
Autumn term 1
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Bridging unit – development of skills from GCSE to A-level Paper 2: ‘WW1 and its aftermath’ OR ‘Modern times: Literature from 1945 to the present day’
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Autumn term 2
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Paper 2: ‘WW1 and its aftermath’ OR 'Modern times: Literature from 1945 to the present day’
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Spring term 1
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Paper 2: ‘WW1 and its aftermath’ OR ‘Modern times: Literature from 1945 to the present day’
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Spring term 2
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Paper 2: ‘WW1 and its aftermath’ OR ‘Modern times: Literature from 1945 to the present day’
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Summer term 1
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Paper 2: ‘WW1 and its aftermath’ OR ‘Modern times: Literature from 1945 to the present day’ Revision and essay writing focus
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A-level mock exams |
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Paper 2, Texts in shared contexts |
Summer term 2
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NEA Text 1 Appropriate secondary sources |
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Summer holidays
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NEA Text 2 | Students to study second NEA text and research appropriate secondary sources. | Students should aim to start Year Two with an outline plan of their comparative critical NEA response. |
Year two
Autumn term 1
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Paper 1: ‘Love through the ages’
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Autumn term 2
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Paper 1: ‘Love through the ages’
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Spring term 1
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Paper 1: ‘Love through the ages’ Section C: Prose text |
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Paper 1, Section C requires students to compare their prose text with their poetry anthology. If one teacher is teaching both texts, they could be taught alongside each other so that comparisons can be made throughout. |
Spring term 2
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Paper 1: ‘Love through the ages’ Section C: Poetry anthology |
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Summer term 1
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Revision and exam essay writing skills Paper 1:
Paper 2:
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A-level mock exams |
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Paper 1, Love through the ages Paper 2, Texts in shared contexts |