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The National Curriculum of England (UK) is a very structured curriculum that is designed to meet the needs of all students, stretching brighter children and supporting those who need it through differentiated teaching and learning activities. The curriculum extends and excites all students, whatever their interests or ability. Through it, teachers are able to identify, celebrate and nurture the talents and intelligences of students.

British education is renowned for concerning itself with the development of the whole personality.

In the British education system, students are taught to learn by questioning, problem-solving and creative thinking rather than by the mere retention of facts, hence giving them analytical and creative thinking skills that they will need in the working world. A variety of teaching and assessment methods designed to develop independent thought as well as a mastery of the subject matter is used.

The National Curriculum of England has a clearly defined series of academic and other objectives at every level. mydrasa focuses on Key stage 3 (Year 7-9), Key stage 4 IGCSE/GCSE (Year 10-11) and Key stage 5 A-Level (Year 12-13).

mydrasa added subjects related to Key stage 4 to Year 9, and added subjects related to Key stage 5 to Year 11 for student preparation.

IGCSE stands for the "International General Certificate of Secondary Education". It is a program leading to externally set, marked and certificated examinations from the University of Cambridge. Any student who takes an IGCSE subject will be gaining a qualification that is recognized globally.

The exam boards covered under the International GCSE are Cambridge, Edexcel, and Oxford AQA.

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Subjects

Cambridge - English - Literature (English) - 0475

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Students following the Cambridge IGCSE English Literature course will learn to enjoy the experience of reading literature by interpreting and evaluating English literary texts from different periods and from different cultures.

Students study prose, drama and poetry through a range of set texts written originally in English. They develop their ability to appreciate the different ways in which writers achieve their effects, and communicate their personal response to the texts studied. Students also consider the contribution English literature has made to our wider understanding.

‘Open book’ and ‘closed book’ examinations are available, as well as coursework and unseen options.

The syllabus 0475 has been approved by Ofqual for use in state-maintained schools in England as a Level 1/Level 2 Certificate in English Literature.

Both independent schools in the UK and state-maintained schools in England may enter learners for syllabus 0475.

  • 1: Poetry
    1.1: Songs of Ourselves Volume 1, Part 3
    1.1.1: Maya Angelou, ‘Caged Bird’
    1.1.2: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ‘Sonnet 43’
    1.1.3: James K Baxter, ‘Farmhand’
    1.1.4: Sujata Bhatt, ‘Muliebrity’
    1.1.5: Isobel Dixon, ‘Plenty’
    1.1.6: Rosemary Dobson, ‘The Three Fates’
    1.1.7: Robert Hayden, ‘Those Winter Sundays’
    1.1.8: Seamus Heaney, ‘Mid-Term Break’
    1.1.9: Mervyn Morris, ‘Little Boy Crying’
    1.1.10: Norman Nicholson, ‘Rising Five’
    1.1.11: Adrienne Rich, ‘Amends’
    1.1.12: Edna St Vincent Millay, ‘Sonnet 29’
    1.1.13: Dennis Scott, ‘Marrysong’
    1.1.14: Stevie Smith, ‘Not Waving But Drowning’
    1.1.15: William Wordsworth, ‘She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways’
    1.2: Songs of Ourselves Volume 2, Part 2
    1.2.1: Kofi Awoonor, ‘The Sea Eats the Land at Home’
    1.2.2: Robert Bridges, ‘London Snow’
    1.2.3: Billy Collins, ‘Afternoon with Irish Cows’
    1.2.4: David Constantine, ‘Watching for Dolphins’
    1.2.5: William Cowper, ‘The Poplar-Field’
    1.2.6: Allen Curnow, ‘You will Know When You Get There’
    1.2.7: Gerard Manley Hopkins, ‘The Caged Skylark’
    1.2.8: Elizabeth Jennings, ‘In Praise of Creation’
    1.2.9: John Keats, ‘Ode on Melancholy’
    1.2.10: Philip Larkin, ‘Coming’
    1.2.11: Ruth Pitter, ‘Stormcock in Elder’
    1.2.12: Peter Reading, ‘Cetacean’
    1.2.13: Edna St Vincent Millay, ‘The Buck in the Snow’
    1.2.14: Charlotte Smith, ‘Written Near a Port on a Dark Evening’
    1.2.15: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, ‘The Kraken’
    1.3: Carol Ann Duffy poems
    1.3.1: Head of English
    1.3.2: Recognition
    1.3.3: Foreign
    1.3.4: In Mrs Tilscher’s Class
    1.3.5: ‘The Darling Letters
    1.3.6: The Good Teachers
    1.3.7: A Child’s Sleep
    1.3.8: Prayer
    1.3.9: War Photographer
    1.3.10: Stealing
    1.3.11: Originally
    1.3.12: We Remember Your Childhood Well
    1.3.13: In Your Mind
    1.3.14: Valentine
    1.3.15: Death of a Teacher
  • 2: Prose
    2.1: General
    2.1.1: Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre
    2.1.2: Anita Desai In Custody
    2.1.3: Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God
    2.1.4: Henry James Washington Square
    2.1.5: John Knowles A Separate Peace
    2.1.6: George Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four
    2.1.7: Alan Paton Cry, The Beloved Country
    2.2: Stories of Ourselves
    2.2.1: Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’
    2.2.2: Stephen Crane, ‘The Open Boat’
    2.2.3: Edith Wharton, ‘The Moving Finger’
    2.2.4: Ray Bradbury, ‘There Will Come Soft Rains’
    2.2.5: Alex La Guma, ‘The Lemon Orchard’
    2.2.6: Bernard MacLaverty, ‘Secrets’
    2.2.7: John McGahern, ‘The Stoat’
    2.2.8: Patricia Grace, ‘Journey’
    2.2.9: Janet Frame, ‘The Bath’
    2.2.10: Tim Winton, ‘On Her Knees’
  • 3: Drama
    3.1: Drama
    3.1.1: Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun
    3.1.2: Arthur Miller The Crucible
    3.1.3: R C Sherriff Journey’s End
    3.1.4: William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet
    3.1.5: William Shakespeare Twelfth Night
  • 4: Drama (Open Text)
    4.1: Drama (Open Text)
    4.1.1: Lorraine Hansberry - A Raisin in the Sun
    4.1.2: Arthur Miller - The Crucible
    4.1.3: R C Sherriff - Journey’s End
    4.1.4: William Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet
    4.1.5: William Shakespeare - Twelfth Night
  • 5: Unseen
    5.1: Unseen
    5.1.1: Unseen
  • 6: Coursework
    6.1: Coursework
    6.1.1: Coursework

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