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EnglishAdvanced Higher(C270 13)

English

Course outline

The Advanced Higher English Course offers progression from the Higher English Course. The Course acknowledges the increasing maturity of candidates and enables a high degree of specialisation. The Course consists of two mandatory Units and one other Unit from a choice of four optional Units.

The Units are as follows:

Mandatory Units

D9GT 13 English: Specialist Study (AH) 1 credit (40 hours)
D8VJ 13 English: Literary Study (AH) 1 credit (40 hours)

and

Optional Unit (one to be selected from the following list)

D8VH 13 English: Language Study (AH) 1 credit (40 hours)
D9GV 13 English: Textual Analysis (AH) 1 credit (40 hours)
D9GX 13 English: Reading the Media (AH) 1 credit (40 hours)
D9GW 13 English: Creative Writing (AH) 1 credit (40 hours)

Course assessment

In order to gain an award in the Course, the candidate must pass the internal assessments associated with the component Units. In addition, the candidate must meet the standards targeted by the external assessment instrument.

For external assessment of the mandatory Specialist Study, each candidate will be required to submit a dissertation of 3,500 - 4,500 words.

For external assessment of the mandatory Literary Study and three of the options (Language Study, Textual Analysis and Reading the Media), a question paper will be set (one hour 30 minutes for each section). Candidates will be required to answer one question in relation to each of the Units concerned. Candidates will not be allowed to bring texts or any other material into the examination.

For external assessment of the optional Creative Writing, candidates will be required to submit a folio comprising two pieces of creative writing in different genres.

Specialist Study - 40% weighting
Each of the other two components - 30% weighting

Unit Specifications

The specifications for the component Units for sessions 2008-2009, 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 are given below.

The specifications may be changed from time to time.

Specialist Study

The following is the list of study areas specified by SQA

Literary Study

The following is the list of authors and texts specified by SQA:

Drama

Candidates must study the texts specified for their chosen author(s).

Beckett Waiting for Godot, Endgame
Byrne The Slab Boys Trilogy
Chekhov Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard
Friel Translations, Dancing at Lughnasa
Lindsay Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis
Lochhead Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off, Dracula
Pinter  The Homecoming, One for the Road, Mountain Language
Shakespeare either
Othello and Antony and Cleopatra 
or
The Winter’s Tale and The Tempest
Stoppard Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Arcadia
Wilde Lady Windermere’s Fan, An Ideal Husband, The Importance of Being Earnest
Williams A Streetcar Named Desire, Sweet Bird of Youth

Poetry

Candidates must study a selection of poems by their chosen author(s). The selection must include the poems listed for each chosen author.

Burns The Cotter's Saturday Night
The Twa Dogs
Holy Willie's Prayer
The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie
Address to the Deil
The Vision
Epistle to J. Lapraik
Address to the Unco Guid
The Holy Fair
and a selection of songs
Chaucer Canterbury Tales:
The General Prologue
The Pardoner's Introduction, Prologue and Tale
The Nun's Priest's Prologue and Tale
Donne   The Good Morrow
"Go and catch a falling star ..."
The Sun Rising
Aire and Angels
The Anniversary
Twickenham Garden
A Valediction: of weeping
A Nocturnal upon St Lucie's Day
A Valediction: forbidding mourning
The Extasie
"This is my play's last scene ..."
"At the round earth's imagined corners, blow ..."
"Death be not proud ..."
"Batter my heart three-person'd god ..."
"Show me dear Christ, thy spouse ..."
Good Friday,1613. Riding Westward
Hymne to God my God in my sicknesse
Duffy               Dear Norman
Model Village
Recognition
Selling Manhattan
Correspondents
Warming her Pearls
Miles Away
Originally
Poet for our Times
Dream of a Lost Friend
The Captain of the 1964 'Top of the Form' Team
Litany
Before you were mine
Small Female Skull
Moments of Grace
Valentine
Mean Time
Prayer
Heaney

Personal Helicon
Follower
Bogland
Anahorish

Broagh

The Tollund Man
Funeral Rites

Punishment
The Ministry of Fear
Exposure
The Strand at Lough Beg
Casualty
The Harvest Bow
From the Frontier of Writing
Clearances
Henryson                The Testament of Cresseid and any three of the Morall Fabillis
Keats The Eve of St Agnes
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode to Psyche
To Autumn
Ode on Melancholy
On first looking into Chapman's Homer
"When I have fears that I may cease to be ..."
"Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art ..."
MacDiarmid The Bonnie Broukit Bairn
The Watergaw
Crowdieknowe
The Eemis Stane
The Innumerable Christ
Empty Vessel
A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
Muir Childhood
Horses
The Wayside Station
The River
The Refugees
Scotland 1941
The Little General
The Castle
The Child Dying
The Good Town
The Animals
The Days
Outside Eden
One Foot in Eden
Scotland's Winter
The Difficult Land
The Horses
Plath Sleep in the Mojave Desert
Two Campers in Cloud Country
Morning Song
Wuthering Heights
Blackberrying
Mirror
Pheasant
Poppies in July
The Arrival of the Bee Box
Daddy
Medusa
Ariel
Lady Lazarus
Winter Trees
Words
Edge
Yeats The Stolen Child
The Host of the Air
The Song of Wandering Aengus
The Cold Heaven
The Wild Swans at Coole
In Memory of Major Robert Gregory
An Irish Airman Foresees his Death
The Cat and the Moon
Easter 1916
The Second Coming
Sailing to Byzantium
Among School Children
Byzantium
Lapis Lazuli
Long-legged Fly

Prose fiction

Candidates must study the texts specified for their chosen author.

Atwood Cat's Eye, Alias Grace
Austen Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion
Dickens Hard Times, Great Expectations
Fitzgerald The Beautiful and Damned, Tender is the Night
Galloway The Trick is to Keep Breathing, Foreign Parts
Gray Lanark, Poor Things
Hardy The Return of the Native, Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Hogg The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, The Brownie of the Black Haggs, The Cameronian Preacher's Tale, Mary Burnet
Joyce Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Stevenson The Master of Ballantrae, The Merry Men, Markheim, Thrawn Janet
Waugh A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited

Prose non-fiction

Candidates must study two texts selected from the following list.

Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Brittain Testament of Youth
Jamie Findings
Muir (Edwin) Scottish Journey
Muir (Willa) Belonging
Rush A Twelvemonth and a Day
Spark Curriculum Vitae

Language Study

The following is the list of language topics specified by SQA:

Textual Analysis

The following is the list of genres specified by SQA:

Reading the Media

The following is the list of media categories specified by SQA:

Creative Writing

The following is the list of genres specified by SQA:

Authors, texts and topics central to the work of candidates in the Specialist Study may not be used in any other parts of external Course assessment.

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