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LOVE THROUGH THE AGES COURSEWORK SECTION Coursework Guidance from the Exam Board LITA4 Extended Essay and Shakespeare Study OVERVIEW You will write a sustained (3000 word) comparative essay on three texts of your own choice linked by either the theme of ‘Love Through the Ages’ or by an alternative theme of your own choice. One text will be a Shakespeare play, which encourages you to build upon their prior knowledge of Shakespeare from GCSE as well as on their work on the dramatic genre at AS. The other texts chosen for comparison also draw on the knowledge and understanding of the genres of poetry, prose and drama candidates acquired at AS. You should not write about set texts previously studied closely at AS, but if you have encountered a text or texts as part of you wider reading for AS which you wish to study in much greater depth and detail at A2, this is perfectly acceptable. In line with the spirit of this specification, the extended essay encourages you to engage fully with your texts and tasks and produce an independent response. The exam board want this coursework to be your own and will not like us to be too prescriptive and force you to write on three taught texts. The only stipulation is that you write about ‘Othello’. The other two texts may be entirely of your own choosing. You must also negotiate the title with me. In order to meet the assessment objectives you must: ? produce a creative, coherent and relevant response to your chosen texts using appropriate terminology and concepts (AO1: 6% of overall A-level mark) ? analyse the different ways in which your chosen writers use form, structure and language to present aspects of the common theme (love) (AO2: 6% of overall A-level mark) ? compare and contrast your texts systematically, using other readers’ ideas to develop independent responses of their own (AO3: 6% of overall A-level mark) ? show an awareness of the ways in which relevant contexts can affect the