Which Books did you study for gcse english/lit?
Discussion for GCSE students, including those studying for IGCSEs and O Levels.
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Re: Which Books did you study for gcse english/lit?
Books:
Of Mice and Men (Eng Lang coursework plus one Eng Lit Unit 1 exam)
Lord of the Flies (Eng Lit Unit 2 exam)
Plays:
A View From The Bridge (Eng Lit Unit 2 exam)
Romeo and Juliet (Eng Lit coursework)
Plus four poems for the English Lit coursework and a question about unseen poetry in the Unit 1 exam for English Lit. -
Re: Which Books did you study for gcse english/lit?
* I know why the caged bird sings (exam)
* An Inspector Calls (exam)
* Merchant of Venice (cw)
* Pride and Predjudice (cw)
* Dulce et Decorum est and Charge of the Light Brigage (cw- War poems)
* I know why the caged bird sings -poem and another poem which I cant remember but we had to compare it too (cw) -
Re: Which Books did you study for gcse english/lit?
Of Mice and Men, Romeo and Juliet, An Inspector Calls, Never Let Me Go
I would have loved to have done Pride and Prejudice though, I absolutely love that book. NLMG was just...eurgh, just awful.
Poetry-wise, we did: The Charge of the Light Brigade (Alfred, Lord Tennyson), Patrolling Barnegat (Walt Whitman) and Dulce et Decorum Est (Wilfred Owen). -
Re: Which Books did you study for gcse english/lit?
'Romeo and Juliet' and the poems 'Ballad' by someone anonymous and 'Long Distance' by Tony Harrison for coursework.
'Of Mice and Men' and 'An Inspector Calls' and 'AQA Moon on the Tides Poetry Anthology' (Conflict poems) for the exam. BUT I did do coursework on Curley's Wife (and she came up in the exam! woo!
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Re: Which Books did you study for gcse english/lit?
Gosh, it's 5 years since I took my GCSEs! I did AQA syllabus, I think we did To Kill a Mockingbird, Henry V, Sweet Bird of Youth and the Hound of the Baskervilles (teacher made us refer to it as "the novella" because it wasn't technically a proper book). Then we did the AQA poetry anthology with Gillian Clarke and Seamus Heaney.
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Re: Which Books did you study for gcse english/lit?
i use the term study loosely
but i studied of mice and men but i'd only read a few chapters,( you know the important ones and the one where crooks is in.) And i new a lot about civil rights movements and how black people percieved themselves, and what do you know there is a question on crooks in the exam so the history channel served me very well. And voila, i was two marks off an A*

