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Engliture

At Engliture, our approach is all about nurturing every student’s potential, providing high-quality support, and equipping them with the skills and confidence to achieve their best in the GCSE English Language The English Language GCSE focuses on enhancing students’ reading, writing, and spoken language skills. It involves studying a variety of texts from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, including both fiction and non-fiction. Students learn to analyse language, structure, and form to understand how writers convey meaning and achieve effects. The course also emphasises creative and transactional writing, encouraging students to produce their own stories, descriptions, articles, and speeches tailored to different audiences and purposes. Additionally, there is a spoken language component where students present and discuss ideas verbally, developing their communication and presentation skills.

GCSE English Literature

Here is a list of some popular GCSE Literature books often studied across various exam boards (AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC, EduQas, CAIE)

GCSE English Literature

A-Level English Literature

Shakespeare Plays

  1. Macbeth
  2. Romeo and Juliet
  3. Much Ado About Nothing
  4. Julius Caesar
  5. The Merchant of Venice

Modern Texts (20th Century Novels and Plays)

  1. An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley
  2. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  3. Animal Farm by George Orwell
  4. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  5. Blood Brothers by Willy Russell
  6. The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
  7. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (play adaptation) by Mark Haddon & Simon Stephens
  8. DNA by Dennis Kelly
  9. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
  10. Journey’s End by R.C. Sherriff

19th Century Novels

  1. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  2. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
  3. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert  Louis Stevenson
  4. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  5. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Poetry Anthologies

  1. Power and Conflict (AQA Anthology)
  2. Love and Relationships (AQA Anthology)
  3. Belonging (Edexcel Anthology)
  4. Time and Place (OCR Anthology)
  5. WJEC Eduqas Poetry Anthology

Shakespeare Plays

  1. Hamlet
  2. Othello
  3. King Lear
  4. Measure for Measure
  5. The Tempest

20th Century and Contemporary Prose and Drama

  1. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
  2. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
  3. Atonement by Ian McEwan
  4. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  5. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
  6. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  7. Regeneration by Pat Barker
  8. Top Girls by Caryl Churchill

American and Postcolonial Literature

  1. Beloved by Toni Morrison
  2. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
  3. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
  4. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
  5. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
  6. The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

17th-19th Century Prose and Drama

  1. The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster
  2. Paradise Lost (Books 9 & 10) by John Milton
  3. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
  4. Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
  5. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
  6. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
  7. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  8. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Poetry Collections and Anthologies

  1. Selected Poems by John Donne
  2. Selected Poems by William Blake (“Songs of Innocence and Experience”)
  3. The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer
  4. The Whitsun Weddings by Philip Larkin
  5. Mean Time by Carol Ann Duffy
  6. Feminine Gospels by Carol Ann Duffy
  7. Selected Poems by Seamus Heaney
  8. Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
  9. The World’s Wife by Carol Ann Duffy

Drama

  1. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
  2. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
  3. Translations by Brian Friel
  4. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

Key Stage 3

We engage Key Stage 3 students in the captivating world of English Language and Literature, guiding them to explore language features and analyze texts with enthusiasm and insight, ensuring they develop the skills needed to excel in their studies!

Key Stage 4

We are dedicated to helping Key Stage 4 students in Years 10 and 11 excel in their GCSE English Language and Literature, consistently achieving a remarkable 100% success rate over the past three years. Equipping them with expert strategies and in-depth understanding to secure grades above A, with all students raising their grades by an average of two levels above their mock results through our comprehensive model answers and step-by-step how-to guides.

Key Stage 5

We offer enthusiastic, personalised tutoring in A Level English Language and English Literature, inspiring students to flourish and reach their aspirations, while proudly achieving a stellar 100% pass rate that highlights our unwavering commitment to their success!

A-Level English Language & Literature

The English Language A Level course offers an in-depth exploration of the English language, focusing on how it is used and how it evolves over time. Students analyse a wide range of texts and spoken language, studying language diversity, language change, and linguistic variations across different social groups and contexts. The course covers topics such as language analysis, child language acquisition, language in the media, and the impact of technology on communication. Additionally, students engage in original writing tasks and conduct independent language investigations, allowing them to apply theoretical concepts to real-world language use. This comprehensive study equips students with a deep understanding of linguistic principles and enhances their analytical and creative skills.