#alevel english lit

[discoddity]

OK i’m definitely doing history and psychology for a-levels but what should my 3rd choice be

don’t vote yet please!!!

don’t vote yet!!! read below the poll first pls

pros and cons

media studies

pros

• i think the lessons would be very interesting

• we are exposed to media everyday! so i’d understand something i see all the time a bit better

• two of my english teachers that are also media studies teachers said i should do it

• i’d have the potential to make cool video essays and tumblr posts …

• coursework might be fun

cons

• i’ve never done it before so i don’t actually know if i’d enjoy it

• i also don’t know if i’d do well in it bc of that

• i often struggle to understand picture sources in history (media has a lot of analysing of pictures i think)

• i understand words better than pictures

• coursework might be stressful

• i want to do the other two aswell :(

english literature

pros

• i understand words better than pictures

• have been doing it at school for like five years now #experience #XP

• i get good grades at it in gcse, so i will probably be able to do well at a-level too

• i know i usually enjoy it

• i like reading

cons

• the fact that an english essay’s marks could change from examiner to examiner makes me nervous, what if i get all the angry examiners who want to watch the world burn.

• what if i don’t like the books we learn about?

• idk what i’d do for coursework (comparing books you’ve read i think)

• apparently it is very different at a-level and more work / stress .. EEK!

• i want to do the other two aswell :(

spanish

pros

• my teacher really wants me to do it

• have been doing it at school for like five years now #experience #XP

• i get good grades at it in gcse, so i will probably be able to do well at a-level too

• i think learning a language can be a v useful and good thing to do

cons

• i want to do the other two aswell :(

• i struggle with the speaking and listening parts sometimes

• don’t think i’d be able to understand a full book or film in spanish yet (but ig thats the point of learning it,,)

[deepdeanvsweston]

It's Halloween, which means it's time to consider the haunted house implications of Fallingford,,, I know it's NOT but yes I consider Arsenic For Tea a gothic novel

Daisy and Bertie are never out of that house, they never get out, Fallingford will always follow like a whisper, one step behind. They can't dig up their roots, their growing up at Fallingford, without doing damage to themselves...

The whole thing about everyone being freaked out by the fact Mr Curtis was being left in a room to rot, like Daisy and Bertie weren't already experiencing an emotional rotting of sorts being in that house, like gone off food of some sort,,, and then the whole idea of the tea party, Lady Wells trying to cling onto when Daisy was little so she can't see how Daisy how's changed to something she doesn't want or recognise (she even forgot how old Daisy was turning)

The entire way through the novel, (for me personally) something felt off, with the illusions of grandeur hiding secrets in plain sight, alongside the fact that even the murder was committed in front of everyone,,,

The entire book felt exactly like the sentiment 'if walls could talk'... the overlap between ideas of your classical haunted house, compared with being haunted by rumours/secrets,,, the whole combination of these with the idea of a curse (something actually scary, a concept used in spooky media, but also knowing it relies on words to work)

Also just the fact 'fall' is in the name, like ofc they was gonna be a destined fall from grace it's in the name of the house!!!

Idk if this is coherent thoughts but I hope I get my point across???

[astranauticus]

listening to the ivantill version of my clematis and i cannot stop thinking about the difference in the way ivan and mizi deliver the 'my god, my universe' line.... mizi declares it like a revelation (handed to her from her only god) ivan whispers it like a secret (to be kept hidden from his only god)

[killa-trav]

Any book recommendations?

come to the wrong place for that pal, i don't and can't read

[clopeh-sekka]

Does anyone have any book recommendations for my Alevel coursework. I was thinking about doing 'crime and punishment' or 'Iron widow' but I have no clue what to compare either of them with.

[sunnysideupbloggy]

life update i guess?

okay SO!

got two books in the mail today: donna tartt's the secret history and dostoyevsky's crime and punishment

i started reading the secret history today but it's been a bit busy so I only got like 20 pages in but like ??????? i'm so intrigued and invested already, like what happened to bunny? who is this julian man? anyway yeah. as for crime and punishment imma have to crack it open very soon because i'll be writing my english lit nea on it (compared with the picture of dorian gray cuz that book is on another level, I love it to death)

outside of that though i am definitely in my academic era rn, which is a blessing and a curse but we're vibing tbf

[wizardyke]

ill never understand people who engage in media to turn their brains off because im out here reading hamlet with no annotations or academic guidance . get real

[messrsrarchives]

What did you do in college????? I start year 12 next week and I want do english at uni what subjects did you do and what uni choices???? If you're okay saying ofc

heyyyy

i did a-levels in english lit, psychology and politics (+ AS spanish) !! and then i'm 2nd year dual honours english lit + politics now :)

uni wise (excluding the one i actually go to) i applied to durham, cambridge, st andrews, nottingham, brighton

some unis aren't too fussed about what other subjects you do !! there were even some (not these ones) that don't need you to do english lit alevel, it's all v individual !! but then others wanted certain english lit + another humanity. all very annoying. all very unnecessary BUT generally if you're doing english lit and meet the grade boundaries that's it :) only fussy unis want more

does this help!? maybe not !! i will say that the personal statement was a big part of it to but if i remember correctly they've changed how that works so idk what it's like now

[xxdumbblondexx]

---Additional Learning Support--

~ALS group~

Xiao - Psychology, IT and Math A level student. A loner who doesn't really speak to any one and keeps to himself.

Kazuha - English lit, music and english lang A level student. Another loner who is known for hanging around Beidou and Ninguang. He always smells of some kind of strange plant but somehow never gets caught for it.

Scaramouche - IT, Applied science and sociology A level student. Brother of Shogun, student head of Electro house. He is constantly being watched over by Miko, a teacher and family friend who is always annoying him

Heizou - Criminology and Law, Forensic science and Sociology. Known for flirting about and sticking his nose in places it doesn't belong. Also once got caught fighting and never lived it down.

Albedo - Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Art. He's taking four alevel's which, if your unfamiliar with A level's, is hell. Only the smartest of the smart. He was chosen as the mentor for the ALS group.

Aether - Maths, english lang and applied science. Him and his twin sister Lumine newly joined the school this year. Due to that and him not really revising, he was placed in ALS.

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Master list

Hiyaaaa~

Here's a few notes to clear up any confuse to anyone who isn't aware of what sixth form is <3

First, Sixthform is the last two years of high school in the uk where you gain important qualifications for University (aka College). In Sixthform, you can pick between 3-4 course to do, varying from pretty much anything. You also get Study periods where you are supposed to do work for lessons, although no one really does. You also can wear no uniform in most sixthform with a few restrictions. (Office wear n that)

Second, in british schools, you have houses. They change from school and their importance also changes. For some its literally just something that people are sorted in for sports day and insert days. In my school, you had assemblies based on your house and-- outside of sixthform --it also changed your school uniform slightly. Like you would have a different blazer and tie. In this SMAU, the seven houses are of course, Anemo, Electro, Geo, Cryo, Pyro, Dendro, Hydro.

Third, for my sixthform at least, you were given a lanyard with a card that you could use to open gates around the school. This prompted late mornings (pretty much mornings where you had no lessons so you didnt need to come in until your first lesson) and pretty much leaving when you liked.

Lastly, registration is pretty much home room where you get told what's going on and get signed in.

If you have any more questions feel free to ask <3

[cosmichoneyz]

"They woke again at seven, stupid with love Everything they knew – the brightest stars, Sirius, Canopus Alpha Centauri, Vega; the Roman Emperors, Claudius Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius; musical terms, allegro, calando Crescendo, glissando; mathematics, the value of pi Prime numbers, Cantor’s infinities – only a jumble of words, only a jumble of words."

The Laughter of Stafford Girls' High, Carol Ann Duffy, Feminine Gospels, 2002

I AM STUDYING THIS FOR MY ENGLISH LIT ALEVEL AND THIS IS SO INEFFABLE HUSBANDS CODED. LIKE. THEY LITERALLY MENTION ALPHA CENTAURI. THIS IS A BIT ABOUT TWO LESBIAN TEACHERS IN LOVE BTW. I AM NOT OK

[judeswhore]

i’m studying english lit alevel and for one of of your tasks we can analyse any short story and ngl i would analyse one of your jude books any day

stop this just made me grin like an idiot🤭🤭ur an angel actually this is too sweet

[twisted-tales-told]

arik i’m loving how ur summer school post always line up with what i’m doing in alevel english lit i liv watching u angry post and i’m nodding along on the other side . and whoever said shakespeares straight is a LIAR what happened to ‘fair youth’ that like 154 sonnets were addressed to?????

LITERALLY!!!

And like, no straight man writes pining like that in my opinion.

Pining is not real unless u are queer/j

I hope ur enjoying ur English lit stuff!! I don’t know what an A Level is but that seems really tough & you are a big brain genius so you can do it

[killa-trav]

i've started my dissertation again after not doing anything w it since november and starting to realise this reading shit isn't for me

[lilyflxwers]

10 books to get to know me

thank you lovelies @messrsage and @fruity-individual for the tag <3

as good as dead - holly jackson

this book will always be in my top ten because it made me love reading again. it’s a third book in a series and the other two were good but I loved this one so much bc I really enjoy true crime and normally plot twists in books like these aren’t hard to guess but this one surprised me lmao.

the hunger games - susanna collins

Ik this is a basic answer but these books changed my little 13 year old life lmao. I was convinced that I could easily be katniss (expect like yk i lack basic life skills and the idea of being hunted for amusement gives me so much anxiety, I would simply pass away from heart failure).

gone - michael grant

yeah so this series fucked me up at 14 and I’ve never reread it but I could pretty much tell you word for word what it said lmao. The whole, being stuck in an area where no one over the age of 15 survived really worried me phahah. Again I did, in fact, decide I would have survived fine.

Red queen - Victoria avery

This one gets an honourable mention bc it’s the reason I got all my ear piercings done. As you can tell, I can’t normally read a book and I have to pretend I’m a character bc yk that’s healthy (and also a lot of untreated trauma) iconic Ik. Anyways yeah I don’t remember tonnes about this series and I never read the last book bc I read the series and fixated on it before that one was written and then I forgot it ever existed.

Song of Achilles - Madeline miller

Yeah. This book tore my heart out and then stomped all over it and then stabbed it a few thousand times. I read this book in a very bad time in my life and it helped me find the beauty of simplicity. And then yk they all died so that fucked with me a little.

the CIA and the culture of failure - John diamond

Honourable mention bc it gave me a fucking good argument in my thesis.

blood ties - Sophie mckenzie

Would not recommend this if ur over the age of like 12 BUT at 12 this book was my whole entire existence. I wanted to be a clone so bad. I read and read and read this book until the spine was ripped. Which, if you know anything about me, is the worst thing that could happen to a book. And then I made my sister read it so we could pretend to be clones. bc yk that’s a totally normal thing to do.

my sisters keeper - Jodi picoult

this book. this fucking book. if you haven’t read it please do. i did my alevel English lit coursework on this and it made me CRY. I don’t wanna ruin it so i won’t say too much. but the ending broke my soul.

we need to talk about Kevin - lionel shriver

Speaking of my English alevel, I also spent a year studying this fucker so I feel like it should have an honourable mention. fuck me this was a tough read emotionally bc it’s written from the perspective of a school shooters mother, but also physically bc it’s an epistolary novel (which like if you like epistolary then soz)

the sisterhood of the travelling pants - ash brashares

this series was like the first “proper” series I read on my own when I was like nine and I became obsessed with it. Like to an unhealthy extent. to this day I refuse to watch the film bc I’m so worried it’ll ruin my little nine year old experience of reading it lmao.

I tag anyone who sees this bc I’ve taken forever to do this and idk who has and hasn’t been tagged lmao :)

[neutral-simplicity]

i recently learned i got an A in english lit A-Level (alevels are kind of end of school exam if you're not British) even though the grade boundaries were really high this year and the whole two years i couldnt manage anything about a B in my tests :)

Omg!!! That’s awesome! Congrats, friend, I’m sure it was well deserved 💖. I am British, but I spent practically all of my school years in New Zealand. My knowledge of the UK school system is practically nonexistent. I’m so glad you aced it though, hopefully there’s a reward coming your way for all your hard work😌. Keep up the great work, I’m proud of you!

[photondracula]

hi, this is my study blog, i’ll mainly be using it to track the work i do, talk about revision, etc so here’s some info about me!

name: photon (not my real name but yknow esafety)

age: 17

pronouns: they/them

school year: year 12 / sixth form

alevel options: physics, maths, english lit, further maths (and maybe an epq i haven’t decided yet)

i’m from the uk if you haven’t deduced- this is a side blog btw so yes there’s that.

anyway, that’s me!