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We had a book full of short stories (Opening Worlds) and another full of poems (Opening Lines). They were included in both English and English Lit.

Oh, and coursework was Frankenstein and Romeo & Juliet

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el scorcho

lord of the flies for the exam, and macbeth for the coursework

I liked both of them

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inksplodge

AQA- Of Mice and Men

coursework - romeo & juliet.

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SomeStudent

AQA English
Of Mice and Men --> for coursework

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boatsgoplaces

Lord of the Flies (studying at the moment and just finished reading it)
Not a bad book I spose...

Stone Cold.
WJEC.

To Kill a Mockingbird - amazing book, for the exam
The Crucible - did this for coursework in Y10.
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - coursework in Y10 again!
Merchant of Venice - Shakespeare (for both exam and coursework :eek:

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samanthaelizabeth

Of Mice and Men and something about a bridge...the name will come to me...for WJEC

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Ratio Decidendi

Heroes.

We also studied Thomas Hardy's 'The Withered Arm' for coursework. Great story.

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emmers1990

Of Mice and Men.
We also studied, Romeo & Juliet and Death of a Salesman. Oh and Frankenstein.

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letsdothetimewarpagain

;The other side of truth' and about to do 'an inspector calls'

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letsdothetimewarpagain

Have also done 'romeo and juliet' along with 'the speckled band'

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T kay

Lilliesha

The Catcher in The Rye.... pretty pointless book tbh

Perhaps my favourite novel!

I did Of Mice and Men and An Inspector Calls for exam.

For coursework I did Romeo and Juliet, The Red Room, 2 Seamus Heaney Poems (Follower and Digging ), a comparison between Wilfred Owen's Dulce et decorum est and Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade, a short story and two letters.

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qgujxj39

To Kill a Mockingbird, for wuh-jeck.

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Olie

Romeo and Juliet, Dracula and the Crucible iirc on OCR I think. Good stories but GCSE English was so dull with the short stories and poems and writing.

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Malsy

AQA

Of mice and Men

:biggrin:

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GamerChris

To Kill A Mockingbird. AQA I believe.

Just quote the line about killing mockingbirds and you're set.

I got a B :P

EDIT: Also looked at The Crucible, The Tempest and the Mayor of Casterbridge :biggrin:

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ElectricOceans

I did quite a few novels for GCSE English. I did one play and two novels for coursework, and then one novel for the exam. I also did Of Mice and Men and an Inspector Calls as introductory pieces to the course to prepare us for further study.

As part of the course I did A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller as part of the coursework. I also studied A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare again as part of the coursework and Oliver Twist by Dickens for another coursework piece. For the exam I did JD Salinger's Catcher in the Rye and I was on AQA.