A Level English follows the Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) curriculum.
Component 1 – Drama and Poetry
One play and one collection of poems.
(Examples include Shakespeare, Arthur Miller, Wole Soyinka; and for poetry, Robert Browning, Gillian Clark, Owen Sheers)
Component 2 – Prose and unseen
One prose text (novel or short stories) and one close reading exercise. (Prose examples include Andrea Levy’s Small Island, EM Forster’s Howard’s End, and Stories of Ourselves (anthology).)
Component 3 – Shakespeare and Drama
Two drama texts, one of which will be Shakespeare. (Examples include The Winter’s Tale, Richard II, Athol Fugard’s Township Plays, Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie and Tom Stoppard’s Indian Ink.)
Component 4 – Pre- and Post-1900 Poetry and Prose
A variety of texts for both poetry and prose. One of each will be studied.
(Authors include Chaucer, Dickens, Emily Dickinson, Austen, Milton, Hardy, Woolf, Atwood, Spender.)