Course Content – Syllabus Edexcel (4ET1)
Unit 1 – Romeo and Juliet (Part 1)
– Developing your knowledge of the text
– Background, characters and themes
– The story behind the play
Unit 2 – Romeo and Juliet (Part 2)
– The language of Shakespeare
– Structure
– Form
– Reading Romeo and Juliet
– Writing about Romeo and Juliet
Unit 3 – An Inspector Calls
– Social and historical context
– Act One
– Act Two
– Act Three
– Characters
– Themes
Unit 4 – Introduction to Poetry
– Poetic techniques
– Form and structure
– Similes
– Metaphors
– Personification
– Repetition
Unit 5 – Anthology Poetry Part 1
– If by Rudyard Kipling
– Prayer Before Birth by Louis MacNeice
– Blessing by Imtiaz Dharker
– Search for my Tongue by Sujata Bhatt
– Half-Past Two by U A Fanthorpe
– Piano by D H Lawrence
– Hide and Seek by Vernon Scannell
– Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare
Unit 6 – Anthology Poetry Part 2
La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats
Poem at Thirty-Nine by Alice Walker
War Photographer by Carol Ann Duffy
The Tyger by William Blake
My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
Half-caste by John Agard
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
– Remember by Christina Rossetti
Unit 7 – Of Mice and Men
– Social and historical context
– Chapter 1
– Chapter 2
– Chapter 3
– Chapter 4
– Chapter 5
– Chapter 6
– Themes
– Big Ideas and Messages
Unit 8 – Preparing for the Exam: Paper 1
– Section A – Unseen Poetry
– Section B – Anthology Poetry
– Section C – Modern Prose
Unit 9 – Preparing for the Exam: Paper 2
– Section A – Modern Drama
