This teaching guide for students of higher ability is designed as a self-contained unit which can be used to produce the AQA A GCSE Pre-1914 Prose coursework. It can also be used as a springboard for Original Writing.
A Modest Proposal is an excellent alternative for the more able students to the rather well-worn (though useful) Pre-1914 Prose path of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Great Expectations and Pride and Prejudice. Its blistering satire allows students to produce some quite subtle and impressive analyses.
- The AQA A Pre-1914 coursework is what is termed as a ‘cross-over’ piece; therefore, if you are using it for assessment for both English and English Literature GCSEs (the most common approach), you need to be able to address the assessment objectives for both.
Let us remind ourselves of these:
English
Candidates are required to demonstrate their ability to:
(i) Read, with insight and engagement, making appropriate references to texts and developing and sustaining interpretations of them;
(iv) Select material appropriate to their purpose, collate material from different sources, and make cross references;
(v) Understand and evaluate how writers use linguistic, structural and presentational devices to achieve their effects, and comment on ways language varies and changes.
English Literature
Candidates are required to...
