Welcome!
Welcome to AS Level English Language and Literature at Reading College.
This handbook contains the key information that you'll need to know on your course. It can be printed, but it is best viewed online as it is filled with links to a variety of online content.
A wide range of texts have been selected in order to expopse you to different styles of writing, a variety of cultures and you'll be engaging with a number of important issues. We will consider discrimination, poverty, treatment of women and slavery through the study of Khaled Hosseini's, 'The Kite Runner' and Valerie Martin's, 'Property.' We will consider language in other contexts through the analysis of Arthur Miller's play, 'All My Sons' and the study of spoken language.
You will develop a wide variety of important employability skills on the course such as:
- Project management skills- through short, medium and long term projects.
- Communication skills- through writing tasks and speaking to others.
- Collaborative working skills through working closely with others
- Time management skills through management of in and out of class work.
- Independence- through self assessment, target setting and processes of editing.
The course is filled with learning opportunities to be grabbed with both hands and we hope there'll be fun along the way too!
We look forward to working with you in the year to come!