Course topics.

Try this with English Literature

1. Compare the topic list with the current course outline from your school.
2. Pick a topic you can partly explain and identify the exact part you want to work through.
3. Bring one example of the kind of question or task your school uses.

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Topics in the resource inventory

• The 2026 Love and Loss poem sets and how Section A Question 1 works
• Shakespeare's Sonnet 147 and Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress' in their contexts
• Byron's 'She Walks in Beauty' and Barrett Browning's Sonnet 43 compared
• Judith Wright's 'Woman to Man' and Ali Cobby Eckermann's 'Yankunytjatjara Love Poems'
• Donne's 'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning' and Keats's 'Ode to Autumn'
• Yeats's 'When You Are Old' and Plath's 'Daddy': form, voice and context
• Harwood's 'Father and Child: Barn Owl' and Harkin's 'These Days I Think of Aunty Doreen'
• Weaving context, ideology and period conventions into a poetry comparison
• Module 2 rules: one pre-20th-century text and how Sections A and B each examine it
• Interrogating historical context and prevailing ideologies in a single text
• Structure, juxtaposition, endings and conflict resolution as carriers of ideas
• Using critical interpretations and one reading position without losing your own argument
• Victorian and Regency novels on the 2026 list: contexts and big ideas
• Plays on the 2026 list: Othello, A Doll's House, The Rover and The Trojan Women
• Module 3 rules: prescribed pairs, the same-module ban and preparing a pair for both sections
• Comparing novel, play and film: mise-en-scène, cinematography and dramatic conventions
• Comparing two contexts of composition within one pair for Section A Question 3
• Building an integrated comparative thesis on ideas for Section B Questions 6 and 7
• The ten 2026 comparative pairs: shared ideas and what each pairing invites
• Planning a 60-minute analytical essay: unpacking keywords, conventions and avoiding memorised essays