b'ALL SAINTS RC SIXTH FORM ENGLISHALL SAINTS RC SIXTH FORMA-LEVELLANGUAGEA-LEVEL& SOCIOLINGUISTICS ENGLISH A quick overview. LITERATURELearn how we build meaning and construct ideas in both spoken and written language,then put those skills to use in your own writing.Learn how language varies according to its context: do we use language differently A quick overview.depending on our gender, age, ethnicity, social group and occupation? How has language varied over time? Be prepared to engage in a wide variety of independent reading. You have the fantastic opportunity to choose your own texts for coursework in Year 13.Learn about the miracle of human language development: how do babies go fromcooing, to babbling, from words to full sentences? Experience some of the worlds greatest literature and immerse yourself in different characters.Is this course for me? individual and what shapes ourin Trumps political speeches,Is this course for me? you will be encouraged to debateand Blakes Songs of Innocence unique use of words includingto analysing the types ofand discuss your views, helping toand Experience. From your studies, gender, geography, class and status.communication which take placeIf you enjoy exploring characters,shape your expression and criticalyou will not only understand the If you have ever wanted to knowAs well as learning key theories andduring football commentary.themes, authorial method andresponse. writers motivation for challenging whether women really do talk moreideas, you will be encouraged todebating your views then Englishpower but will consider how such than men, whether emojis countresearch and debate ideas in orderLiterature is for you. ThroughoutIn Year 12, we explore the genre ofideas resonate within the modern as language or how babies learnto develop your own opinions. Future opportunities? tragedy and how ideas about theworld.complex grammar in just four years,the course you will explore a range then this course is for you. You willof poetry, plays and novels fromhuman experience have shifted learn to analyse and evaluate howAt A Level, these ideas areEnglish Language is a highlydifferent contexts and considerand changed with time. ThroughFuture opportunities?we communicate with each otherdeveloped further through the studyrespected course and has so manyhow key ideas about tragedy, love,the exploration of Tess of the in written and spoken forms as wellof social attitudes to, and debatesuseful applications for your futuresocial struggle and power aredUbervilles and Keats poetry, theEnglish Literature is a respected, as exploring new linguistic terms,about, language diversity andcareer in numerous fields includingcommunicated. You must enjoykey elements of tragedy will beversatile subject and can be a theorists and concepts that willchange. You will consider questionsjournalism, writing, speech therapy,reading independently and beidentified and debated, consideringspringboard to a variety of careers challenge everything you think yousuch as why do we speak differentlylecturing, advertising, marketing,inspired to explore and discuss athe possible impact on a modernincluding journalism, editing, know about the language you usefrom our grandparents and whatteaching, editing, digital media, TVvariety of approaches and theoriesreader. The study of dramaticadvertising, copyrighting, working every day. factors affect how languageand film, lexicography, research,surrounding key texts. texts plays a key role in Year 12in TV and radio, lecturing, teaching evolves? On a smaller scale youforensic linguistics and many more. including Shakespeares Othello will learn the principals of how aand Millers Death of a Salesman.and many more.What will I learn? baby transitions from imitating theWhat will I learn? Through these iconic works you sounds of speech to acquiring upAnything else? will consider the use of dramaticAnything else?to 35,000 words, how we each learnThrough this course, you will bemethods, the audience response English Language offers you theto use language to our advantageTo really succeed you must beintroduced to some of the mostand representation of characters opportunity to investigate the useaccording to context, purpose andprepared to embrace a wholeexciting, controversial and iconicand relationships on stage.To succeed you must be motivated of language for different contextsaudience and the subtle pragmaticsnew range of language terms,texts in English Literature. Youto read around the subject and and purposes and also includesof communication. theorists and ideas about howwill learn to analyse and evaluateIn Year 13, your ideas about society,research the contexts and writers independent original writing. Inwe use language within societytexts effectively, using a range ofpower and rebellion will be testedstudied. This course is about Year 12 you will explore the differentand the development of Englishcritical vocabulary and ideas asthrough the exploration of Socialfurthering your love of great types of texts that you see everyIn Year 13, you will also have theover time. Independent study andwell as express your ideas throughand Political Protest texts. Youliterature and providing you with day from advertising to articles andexciting opportunity to conductconsolidation of ideas will enabledebate. You will uncover the uniquewill be asked to consider thethe tools and confidence to explore consider their audience, purpose,your own investigation into anyou to effectively express yoursocial and political contexts fornature of power, the strength ofa range of texts independently, genre, mode and how people andarea of language which intriguesideas both in your written work andtexts and consider how this maythe human spirit and the need forfurther developing your own unique places are represented. You willyou. This could be anything fromas part of class discussion. influence our understanding of therebellion through texts such as Thevoice.also examine the language of theexamining the language usedwriters message. Most importantly,Handmaids Tale, The Kite Runner 40 41'