AH English

Description of Course

Check out the YASS Course on English for Academic Purposes

The Advanced Higher English Course provides learners with the opportunity to apply critical, analytical and evaluative skills to a wide range of complex and sophisticated texts from different genres. Learners develop refined writing skills, responding and exploring to the way structure, form and language shape the overall meaning of texts.

Assessment

Portfolio (60%)

Dissertation

Learners will produce a dissertation to demonstrate planning, research and presentation of their knowledge and understanding of an aspect or aspects of literature. This dissertation will be at least 2,500 words long and will have 30 marks.

Writing

Learners will produce writing for a clear purpose. The writing can be from the following types:

• Persuasive / informative / argumentative

• Personal/reflective

• Poetry

• Prose fiction

• Drama

Question paper (40%)

There is one question paper for the Advanced Higher English Course, with two Sections.

Section 1: Literary study

There will be a choice of questions from the genres of Drama, Prose fiction, Prose non-fiction and Poetry.

This section will have 20 marks (20% of the total mark). Questions on the texts will demonstrate the skills of understanding, analysis and evaluation. Candidates will select one question.

Section 2: Textual analysis

There will be a choice of questions from the genres of Drama, Prose fiction, Prose non-fiction and Poetry. This section will have 20 marks (20% of the total mark). Candidates will select one question.