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Component 1 - Poetry and Modern Prose

Section B - Anthology Poetry

If–: Voice and AdviceKipling's If– makes maturity depend on a long series of tests. Explore how its advising voice, balanced oppositions and delayed reward make self-command both empowering and demanding.
Prayer Before Birth: Fear and ProtectionAn unborn speaker asks for protection from a world that may control or erase the self. Trace how MacNeice develops this fear through repeated appeals, accumulating threats and a severe final condition.
Blessing: Scarcity and JoyA burst pipe turns scarce water into a moment of collective joy. Explore how Dharker makes that joy vivid while keeping the community's continuing need in view.
Search For My Tongue: Language and IdentityBhatt turns the fear of losing a language into bodily decay and renewed growth. Explore how the poem's English, Gujarati and transliteration give readers different access to bilingual identity.
Half-past Two: Childhood and TimeA child is punished until a clock-time he cannot understand. Follow how Fanthorpe turns his wait into both isolation and imaginative escape, revealing the gap between childhood perception and adult rules.
Piano: Memory and LossA song returns an adult speaker to the intimacy of childhood. Explore how Lawrence makes memory comforting and painful, moving from a quiet trigger to an overwhelming loss of control.
Hide and Seek: Suspense and ChildhoodA child's clever hiding place becomes a place of unwanted isolation. Follow how Scannell uses self-command, sound and an unanswered ending to unsettle the shared rules of a familiar game.
Sonnet 116: Love and ConstancyShakespeare's speaker defines love through the changes it resists. Follow how navigation images, personified Time and the final challenge build an argument for constancy.
La Belle Dame sans Merci: Mystery and DesireA knight tells how a mysterious encounter left him alone and drained. Explore how Keats makes desire dangerous while leaving the knight's explanation open to question.
Poem at Thirty-Nine: Family and MemoryMemories of a father become practical skills, difficult feelings and an adult identity. Explore how Walker presents inheritance as something the daughter transforms.
War Photographer: Conflict and WitnessFollow suffering from a conflict zone through a photographer's darkroom to the newspaper reader. Explore how Duffy distinguishes professional restraint from indifference.
The Tyger: Power and WonderBlake's speaker wonders how one creature can be beautiful and terrifying. Explore how imagery, rhythm and unanswered questions make creation a problem of power and responsibility.
My Last Duchess: Power and ControlA Duke controls the story of his former wife, but his polished speech exposes jealousy and coercion. Explore how Browning makes voice, art and verse reveal the limits of that control.
Half-caste: Voice and PrejudiceAgard turns a prejudiced label into a challenge to the person using it. Explore how humour, spoken language and a movement from halves to wholeness assert the speaker's authority.
Do not go gentle into that good night: Grief and ResistanceThomas turns an argument against surrendering to death into a son's urgent appeal to his father. Explore how repeated commands give grief both control and pressure.
Remember: Love and Letting GoRossetti's speaker moves from asking to be remembered to allowing a beloved to forget. Explore how the sonnet makes letting go a difficult expression of love.
Linking Themes and VoicesLink anthology poems through precise themes, speaking voices and changes across the whole poem.
Understanding the Two Comparison FormatsChoose between the two anthology comparison formats by testing the question focus against evidence from both poems.
Comparing Language and ImageryCompare how language and connected images make vulnerable lives visible in Blessing and War Photographer.
Comparing Form and StructureExplore how Thomas’s villanelle and Rossetti’s sonnet shape different responses to love and loss.
Building Comparative ParagraphsBuild a comparative paragraph that connects evidence, methods and meaning in both poems.
Writing the 30-Mark Anthology ComparisonPlan, write and review a complete anthology comparison with a sustained argument and balanced analysis.

Section C - To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird: Childhood, Boo and Early MaycombTrace how school, family and evidence about Boo challenge Scout’s first judgements in Chapters 1–11.
To Kill a Mockingbird: The Trial: Segregation and InjusticeFollow the trial from the First Purchase visit to the verdict, and explain why legal procedure does not guarantee justice.
To Kill a Mockingbird: After the Verdict: Tom, Bob Ewell and BooExplore the consequences of the verdict and why the ending offers mercy without resolving Maycomb’s injustice.
To Kill a Mockingbird: Scout's Family: Jem, Atticus and CalpurniaExplain how Jem, Atticus and Calpurnia contribute differently to Scout’s education.
To Kill a Mockingbird: Maycomb's Hierarchy and OutsidersExplore how race, class, gender and belonging overlap to shape power in Maycomb.
To Kill a Mockingbird: Jim Crow, Depression and Changing AudiencesUse the 1930s setting, the civil-rights era and later reception to develop precise interpretations of the novel.
To Kill a Mockingbird: Innocence, Courage and the MockingbirdConnect innocence, courage and empathy while testing the limits of the mockingbird idea.
To Kill a Mockingbird: Planning a Whole-Text EssayBuild a whole-text argument with purposeful evidence and context that sharpens the interpretation.
To Kill a Mockingbird: 40-Mark EssayDevelop a sustained Section C response and review it against the holistic 40-mark assessment.

Section C - Of Mice and Men

Of Mice and Men: Six Sections and the Riverbank FrameTrace how hope and danger develop across the novella’s six sections, and why returning to the riverbank changes the meaning of the opening.
Of Mice and Men: George, Lennie and the Final DecisionExplore how George and Lennie sustain one another despite unequal power, then weigh the care and control involved in George’s final decision.
Of Mice and Men: The Ranch Hierarchy and Its OutsidersExplore how ownership, respect, race, gender, age and disability shape power on the ranch, and why a character can be influential in one encounter and vulnerable in another.

Section C - The Whale Rider

Section C - The Joy Luck Club

Section C - Things Fall Apart

Section C - Klara and the Sun

Section C - Western Lane

Component 3 - Modern Drama and Literary Heritage Texts

Coursework - Focus, drafting and revision

Assignment A - A View from the Bridge

Assignment A - An Inspector Calls

Assignment A - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

Assignment A - Kindertransport

Assignment A - Death and the King's Horseman

Assignment B - Romeo and Juliet

Assignment B - Macbeth

Assignment B - The Merchant of Venice

Assignment B - Pride and Prejudice

Assignment B - Great Expectations

Assignment B - The Scarlet Letter