i-GCSE English Literature New Edexcel 9-1 Curriculum

Set texts at a glance

Paper 1

Part 3 of the Pearson Edexcel International GCSE English Anthology:

If– Rudyard Kipling
Prayer Before Birth Louis MacNeice
Blessing Imtiaz Dharker
Search For My Tongue Sujata Bhatt
Half-past Two U A Fanthorpe
Piano D H Lawrence
Hide and Seek Vernon Scannell
Sonnet 116 William Shakespeare
La Belle Dame sans Merci John Keats
Poem at Thirty-Nine Alice Walker
War Photographer Carol Ann Duffy
The Tyger William Blake
My Last Duchess Robert Browning
Half-caste John Agard
Do not go gentle into that good night Dylan Thomas
Remember Christina Rossetti

Additionally, a selection of modern poetry should be studied in order to prepare for the
unseen poetry assessment.

One modern prose text from the list below:

To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
The Whale Rider Witi Ihimaera
The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
Paper 2 and Paper 3
One modern drama text from the list below
A View from the Bridge Arthur Miller
An Inspector Calls J B Priestley
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

Mark Haddon (adapted by Simon
Stephens)
Kindertransport Diane Samuels
Death and the King’s Horseman Wole Soyinka
Pearson Edexcel International GCSE in English Literature –
Specification – Issue 1 – April 2016

One literary heritage text from the list below:

Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Macbeth William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen

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Great Expectations Charles Dickens
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne