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Anyone doing A level English literature

What books are you doing?

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The Great Gatsby, The Grapes of Wrath, A Doll's House,Christina Rossetti poetry and Hamlet
Poetry of Christina Rossetti, 'A Doll's House'; 'Twelfth Night'; 'The Handmaid's Tale'; 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'; 'The History Boys'; 'Union Street' and 'Fahrenheit 451'.

Doing OCR spec.
I'm doing OCR too!
I think I prefer AQA though tbh
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I'm not doing English A level but I read Nineteen Eight-four and it is a really enjoyable book to read.
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Original post by Connor27
Poetry of Christina Rossetti, 'A Doll's House'; 'Twelfth Night'; 'The Handmaid's Tale'; 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'; 'The History Boys'; 'Union Street' and 'Fahrenheit 451'.

Doing OCR spec.


I am doing OCR. What year are you in?
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I am doing OCR. What year are you in?


Year 12 at the moment
I'm in year 13 doing AQA. I'm doing:
Wuthering Heights
Pre-1900 poetry
Othello
The Handmaids Tale
Carol Ann Duffy poetry
All My Sons
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What books are you doing?


AQA A Specification:

'The Taming of the Shrew' William Shakespeare
'The Go-Between' L.P. Hartley
'Wuthering Heights' Emily Bronte (AS only)
Pre-1900 Poetry Anthology
'The Help' Kathryn Stockett
'Top Girls' Caryl Churchill
'Feminine Gospels: An Anthology' Carol Ann Duffy
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Othello, A Streetcar Named Desire, A Thousand Splendid Suns and Wuthering Heights. :smile:

Plus two poetry anthologies that I can't quite remember the names of. :colondollar:
Much Ado, A Streetcar Named Desire, Frankenstein, Never Let Me Go
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The Great Gatsby, The Grapes of Wrath, A Doll's House,Christina Rossetti poetry and Hamlet


I'm doing The Great Gatsby (:frown:), Christina Rossetti, and Hamlet too :smile: Also The Portrait of a Lady and An Ideal Husband. (OCR.) Trying to choose the post-1900 stuff but it's more difficult than you might think!
little nosy snipe! 😯
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What books are you doing?


I'm unfortunately with the idiots that are WJEC. But I'm doing The Tempest, Rossetti's Selected Poems, and Wide Sargasso Sea (coursework) this year. It doesn't help that the teachers are terribe too but what can you do! haha (199th/212 schools in Wales):rolleyes::unimpressed: ah well.

(Did Jane Eyre, Streetcar, Heaney and Sheers for AS)
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Original post by Connor27
Year 12 at the moment


Same
I'm doing:
- A Streetcar Named Desire
- The Poems of The Decade Anthology (Finding this the easiest)
- Wuthering Heights & A Thousand Splendid Suns (Finding this the hardest!)

Who else is doing Edexcel??
Doing OCR also.

Hamlet
The Duchess of Malfi
Christina Rossetti poetry
The Wasp Factory
The Bloody Chamber
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Yes you study age of innocence. The first person. Are you comparing it with great Gatsby?
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I am bad at English literature. I got E in the mock.

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