AWE Club – English Literature Book Group Information

Course Description

This course will look at novels and plays in depth. Texts will include:

Text – Author/Playwright

• The Woman in Black – Susan Hill
• Animal Farm – George Orwell
• The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
• Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
• An Inspector Calls – J.B. Priestley
• Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
• To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
• The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Robert
• Louis Stevenson
• Macbeth – William Shakespeare

Whilst students will hopefully read the texts in full, chapter summaries and notes will be provided.  Classwork will involve the following:

1. Prereading activities and context
2. Chapter-by-chapter analysis 
3. Whole text activities
   – Analysing form and structure
   – Plot
   – Characterisation
   – Setting
   – The writer’s use of language
   – Themes
   – Ideas and messages