Hi,
I decided to create this thread because I haven't been able to find a thread on this, seeing as it is a new syllabus. The specification is: 7716/7717 and the exam board is AQA.
The texts I am studying at AS-Level are: Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Othello, Death of a Salesman and the AQA anthology of selected Thomas Hardy poems.
The poems are: A Sunday Morning Tragedy, At an Inn, Tess's Lament, Under the Waterfall, Lament, Rain on a Grave, Your Last Drive, The Going, The Haunter, At Castle Boterel, A Trampwoman's Tragedy, The Frozen Greenhouse, The Forbidden Banns, The Mock Wife, The Flower's Tragedy, After a Journey and The Newcomer's Wife.
At A2, the texts I am studying are: Hamlet. Atonement and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Also, we are learning a unit called 'Elements of Crime Writing'.
In the two papers, the first paper is for Othello (whole text and extract) and a comparison between Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Death of a Salesman. In paper two, there is an unseen extract from a crime text which we analyse, using what was learnt in the unit. Section B and C are based on Hamlet, Atonement and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. For Section B, our class has been told to answer the question using Hamlet, so that it becomes a whole text question. However, for section C, we answer a question comparing The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Atonement.
Also, I did my coursework, which was two essays. One was about Thomas Hardy's narrative techniques and the one I chose was pathetic fallacy. My question was: the process of pathetic fallacy is fundamental to the shapes of Hardy's meanings. For my second essay, we would do any text on either Marxism or postcolonialism. I chose postcolonial and my novel was Half of a Yellow Sun. My question was: in Half of a Yellow Sun, the power of the coloniser relies on the oppressed state of the colonised, inevitably result in their removal of rights.
What about you? Is there anything that's the same or different?