When we do our GCSEs, it’s a huge step up from KS3. There is
more pressure building on you and many of your lunchtimes are used to finish pieces
of work.
So now we come to English! There are English language and English
literature GCSEs and there may be others on different boards, though our school
uses AQA for English. It’s all over the media at the moment about changing the
2015 GCSEs, especially in English. They may be deciding to change some of the
books which are used on the new syllabus. So I had a nosy around the house and
found some books I wouldn’t mind studding at GCSE. Most of which I haven’t read
and obviously we wouldn’t read them all.
Luckily I won’t be included in the new syllabus (it’s a lot
harder) as I’m starting mine next school year. However, I would really like
them to change some of the books we read for the exams which we will be doing.
Every year our school tends to do To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee or Lord
of the Flies by William Golding so I’m hoping we might be able to do something
else.
Here is my list of books I would like to study at GCSE:
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Pigeon English - Stephen Kelman
Maya Angelou - Maya Angelou
To Kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time - Mark
Haddon
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
The Giver - Louis Lowry (this one may be a bit too young or
easy to read).
ooh, I love this list - and wouldn't mind studying all of these! (Especially nineteen eighty four, I loved that book.) :D I really want to read White Teeth by Zadie Smith. All of Zadie's books look really bold and fun and enjoyable. I found N-W, one of her other books, in a second hand store the other week, so if I enjoy that I'm definitely going to look out for White Teeth:)
ReplyDeleteI'm not going to be able to study any YA books for my gcse, but if I could pick one to put on my syllabus, I'd deifnitely go for More than This by Patrick Ness, because it's really interesting and there are so many messages written between the lines - it would be such an interesting book to discuss!
Ahhh, sorry for the long comment!:D Anyway, I love your picks!
Gee:)