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Hendy16
English Lit
A2
AQA
AS= great gatsby, curious incident of the dog in the night-time, poetry by hardy and tennyson. Coursework= all my sons, othello
A2= Wuthering Heights, Frankenstein, Pardoner's Tale. Coursework= Color Purple, Handmaid's Tale

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areyousure?

Username: areyousure?
Lit / Lang / Land L: English Lit
Level your taking: AS
Board: Edexcel
Set books / work / topics: Howards End and The Remains of the Day. Poetry: The Rattle Bag. Coursework: Much Ado about Nothing and The Rover.

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Kirsty_1991

User: kd_1991
Lit/ Lang/ L and L: Lit
Level you're taking: A2
Board: AQA
Set books/ Work/ Topics: AS - 'The Struggle for Identity' Poetry; 'The Worlds Wife - Duffy. Prose; A thousand splendid suns, Englby, Atonement, About a boy. Drama; A street car named desire, A Dolls house.
A2 - 'Love through the ages'. Poetry, The miller's tale, romantic poetry eg. Shakespeare's sonnets, Wordsworth. Prose; Pride and Prejudice, Tess of the d'Urbervlles, Enduring Love, The Great Gatsby, A Room with a View, The Collector, Wuthering Heights, Captain Corelli's mandolin, oranges are not the only fruit, The Mill on the Floss. Drama; The view from the bridge, Othello.
Fun fun fun :smile:

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Natilly

User: Natilly
Lit/ Lang/ L and L: Lit
Level you're taking: A2
Board: OCR
Set books/Work/Topics: Just finished Othello, Doctor Faustus and Paradise Lost: Book 1. My coursework is on 'The Struggle Between Men and Women' I've decided to do The Collector, Paradise Lost: Book 9 & 10 and Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolfe (or The Worlds Wife - Carol Ann Duffy)

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flywithemma

Username : flywithemma
Lit / Lang / Land L: english literature
Level your taking: AS
Board: AQA (english lit spec B)
Set books / work / topics: The Kite Runner, Enduring Love, Hardy poems and Browning poems, then Othello and Amadeus for coursework.

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johnathancolourfield

riotgrrrl

Well it makes sense to do one for this as well,

Username :frown:

just easier then looking up)
Lit / Lang / Land L:
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Username : Johnathan Colourfield
Lit / Lang / Land L: Literature
Level your taking: AS
Board: AQA
Set books / work / topics: Regeneration (coursework) , Journey's End (coursework), Not About Heroes (coursework), Up The Line To Death Anthology by Brian Gardner (exam) and GOD KNOWS HOW MANY BOOKS FOR WIDER READING

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Sashii.Ni

Username: sashii.ni
Lit
Level: AS Level
Board: Edexcel
Set books:
Exam - Wuthering Heights, The Color Purple, 'Here To Eternity' anthology by Andrew Motion.
Coursework - Much Ado About Nothing and The Taming of the Shrew.

:smile:

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Amaal07

username: Amaal07
English Lit Unit B
Level: AS
Board: AQA
Course: The great Gatsby, the kite runner, christina rossetti and robert browning............ coursework: othello and a view from the bridge

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BryonieIV

Username: Bryonie
Lit/ Lang/ L and L: Lit
Level you're taking: A2
Board: OCR
Set books/Work/Topics: At A2: Paradise Lost, Othello, The Duchess of Malfi (exam), The Bell Jar, Margaret Atwood's poetry, Jane Eyre (coursework).
At AS: The Great Gatsby, Wilfred Owen's poetry (exam), Testament of Youth, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Kite Runner (coursework).

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Sapphyre

Sapphyre
Lit
A2
AQA
Exam= (closed book :frown:

) -Frankenstein, Faustus and The Bloody Chamber (Elements of the Gothic)
C/w (Done- A for both xD Yaaay) - 1) Piece relating to theory in critical anthology (did gender and Tennyson's Mariana), then comparing Jasmine (Mukherjee) and Surfacing (Atwood).

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JonnyWilliams93

JonnyWilliams93
English Literature
AS Level
AQA
A World's Wife, Small Island, A Streetcar Named Desire and Struggle for Identity poems

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Nesselphie

Username: Nesselphie
English Lit
AS
AQA (Spec B - Aspects of Narrative)
Kite Runner, Rime, Rossetti and Gatsby

and just got back from exam... not what i revised! :s-smilie:

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99 Red Balloons

Username: 99 Red Balloons
Lit/ Lang/ L and L: Lit
Level you're taking: A2
Board: AQA (damn them!)
Set books/Work/Topics: Dracula, Macbeth, and either The Pardoner's Tale, Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights or Doctor Faustus (independently retaking the exam, so am allowed to choose now :biggrin:

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Reply 393

ForFreedom

Username: ForFreedom
Lit/ Lang/ L and L: Literature
Level you're taking: A2
Board: OCR
Set books/Work/Topics: For exam - Othello, The Rape of the Lock and The Rover. For coursework, Coleridge, Frankenstein and The Bloody Chamber.

If you're doing similar, let's talk! :biggrin:

On another note, seems like there's a lot of AQA folk :P

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Nadima

Original post by ForFreedom

On another note, seems like there's a lot of AQA folk :P

All of my texts are the same as yours! :smile:

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AmoraAmaiya

Username: AmoraAmaiya
Lit / Lang / L & L : Landuage and Liternature
Level your taking: As
Board: AQA (because they are evil)
Set books / works / topics:
English Language:
Coursework: Two creative writing texts.
Exam: Section 1 - Grouping Texts
Section 2 - Social Contexts (language and power, language and gender, language and technology)

English Literature:
Coursework: Hamlet (shakespeare), A view from a bridge (Arthur Miller)
Exam: Poetry (W.H.Auden, Robert Browning), The Great Gatsby, Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time.

Intested in anyones views on poetry for english literature...

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appleface

appleface
English Lit and English Lang (separate)
A Levels
AQA
Enduring Love, Ant & Cleo, Whitsun Weddings, Streetcar Named Desire, Tess of the D'Urbervilles.

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mattiesides

Mattiesides
English Literature and English Language, separate, as well as Economics
A2 Level currently
AS: Othello, Death of a Salesman, The Great Gatsby, Robert Browning anthology,
A2: The Handmaid's Tale, The Color Purple, Dr Faustus, Frankenstein, The Bloody Chamber, Feminist poetry anthology

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welshyelmo

welshyelmo
Lit
AS Level
WJEC
Carol Ann Duffy: Selected Poems, Sheenagh Pugh: Selected Poems, Broken Glass (play), Wuthering Heights and Return of the Native (coursework).

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wardy333

wardy333 - Real name Samuel.

University Level currently: First Year @ The University of Oxford

Currently studying four modules;
1 - Literary Theory (What is literature? amongst other questions)
2 - Victorian Literature (Dickens, Eliot, Wilde etc)
3 - Old English (Beowulf & other OE prose/poetry)
4 - Modern Literature (Pound/Eliot, Conrad, Forster, Orwell as well as Post-Modernists DeLillo & Pynchon)

Also I can potentially be of assistance with:
A Level: Modernism (Woolf/Eliot/Harwood), Chaucer & Marlowe and Othello
AS Level: The Great Gatsby, Dystopic Literature (Clockwork Orange/1984), Wilfred Owen and Gothic Literature (Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis)

Much love.
Samuel