Which Books did you study for gcse english/lit?

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  1. g.k.galloway's Avatar
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    Re: Which Books did you study for gcse english/lit?
    Exam ---

    Of Mice and Men
    The Woman in Black

    Controlled assessments ---

    Macbeth
    Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
  2. stac4321's Avatar
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    Re: Which Books did you study for gcse english/lit?
    Lord of the Flies
    Romeo and Juliet
    Great Expectations
    Death of a Salesman

    No poetry for us!
  3. tamil4's Avatar
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    Re: Which Books did you study for gcse english/lit?
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    The Crucible
    Pride and Prejudice
    Romeo and Juliet
  4. luke's Avatar
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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.
  5. aneesa :)'s Avatar
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    An Inspector Calls
    Of Mice and Men
    Macbeth
    Jane Eyre
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    Re: Which Books did you study for gcse english/lit?
    For GCSE i did:
    Heroes,
    Macbeth,
    Jane Eyre,
    Plus all them oxford anthology poems.

    Im now taking lit at A level and have done:
    A Clockwork Orange
    Brighton Rock
    The Duchess of Malfi
    Macbeth
    Plus more oxford anthology poems to do with work :yawn:
  7. Moscardini's Avatar
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    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)
  8. Grammar Kid's Avatar
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    Re: Which Books did you study for gcse english/lit?
    Romeo & Juliet

    TKAM

    An Inspector Calls

    Anthology

    Wuthering Heights
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    Re: Which Books did you study for gcse english/lit?
    I studied To Kill A Mockingbird and Animal Farm for the exam, and The Crucible and The Merchant of Venice for the controlled assesments.

    I also studied the Edexcel Anthology for the poetry exam.
  10. ~*Holly*~'s Avatar
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    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).
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    Re: Which Books did you study for gcse english/lit?
    An Inspector Calls, Of Mice and Men and Mr Pip
  12. Rixion's Avatar
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    Re: Which Books did you study for gcse english/lit?
    Romeo and Juliet, Of Mice and Men, A View From The Bridge, Edexcel Anthology
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    Re: Which Books did you study for gcse english/lit?
    To Kill A Mockingbird and An Inspector Calls

    Have both in my bookshelf still, haven't touched them once. English ruined any books we ever studied for me
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    Re: Which Books did you study for gcse english/lit?
    Coursework: Frankenstein
    Exam: Lord of the Flies
  15. Skaði's Avatar
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    Re: Which Books did you study for gcse english/lit?
    Did my GCSEs last year

    -Of Mice and Men
    -An Inspector Calls
    -Macbeth
    -Great Expectations

    Don't even get me started on the poetry
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    Re: Which Books did you study for gcse english/lit?
    We studied: Why the cage bird sings, The merchant of Venice and The view from the bridge and Macbeth.
  17. Sammy95's Avatar
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    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! :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?
    Of Mice and Men
    AQA Poetry anthology - Duffy, Armitage, and some pre-1900s (mainly R Browning)

    For coursework:
    Frankenstein
    Romeo and Juliet
    Journey's End
    (And The Sixth Sense, though that's a film... O.o)
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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*
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