This year’s Year 12 students will be preparing for an internal exam on the following texts:

• “The Duchess of Malfi” by John Webster. This powerful Jacobean revenge tragedy is full of intense imagery, and features one of the great heroines in theatre.
• “Poems of the Decade: An Anthology of the Forward Books of Poetry”. Students will analyse a selection of poems from 2000-2010, offering them a stimulating opportunity to engage with contemporary poetry: works that speak of danger and wonder, fear and love.
• Prose: 1 hour exam
• “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood and ‘Never Let Me Go’ by Kazuo Ishiguro. These two brilliant dystopian novels will be studied comparatively, with students encouraged to connect and contrast them in terms of language, structure, theme and context.

In Year 13, students complete a piece of coursework (20% of the A-level), and also study two more texts, while also revising and developing the skills required for success in their final summer exams.