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 could take a half-term’s text focus and spread that over a whole term. In the Autumn term of Year one, teacher one could take the 'bridging unit', the 'introduction to genre' and the 'unseen text study' 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: Elements of crime writing OR Elements of political and social protest writing
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Autumn term 2
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Paper 2: Elements of crime writing OR Elements of political and social protest writing
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Spring term 1
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Paper 2: Elements of crime writing OR Elements of political and social protest writing
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Spring term 2
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Paper 2: Elements of crime Writing OR Elements of political and social protest writing
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Summer term 1
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Paper 2: Elements of crime writing OR Elements of political and social protest writing Revision and essay writing focus
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A-level mock exams |
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Paper 2, Texts and genres: Elements of crime writing or Elements of political and social protest writing |
Summer term 2
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NEA Text 1 (Poetry/Prose) Critical anthology |
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Summer holidays
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NEA Text 2 (Poetry/Prose) Critical anthology |
Students to study second NEA text and research appropriate extracts from the critical anthology. | Students should aim to start year two with an outline plan of their second NEA response for consultation with their teacher. |
Year two
Autumn term 1
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Paper 1: Aspects of tragedy OR Aspects of comedy
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Autumn term 2
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Paper 1: Aspects of tragedy OR Aspects of comedy
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Spring term 1
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Paper 1: Aspects of tragedy OR Aspects of comedy
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Spring term 2
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Paper 1: Aspects of tragedy OR Aspects of comedy
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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, Literary genres: Aspects of tragedy or Aspects of comedy Paper 2, Texts and genres: Elements of crime writing or Elements of political and social protest writing |