The Antidote to Alpaca Farming

GENERAL Aspects of German-Speaking Society o Familie im Wandel  - Beziehungen innerhalb der Familie  - Partnerschaft und Ehe  - Verschieden Familienformen o Die digitale Welt  - Das Internet  - Soziale Netzwerke  - Die Digitalisierung der Gesellschaft o Jugendkultur: Mode, Musik und Fernsehen  - Mode und Image  - Die Bedeutung der Musik fuer Jugendliche  - Die Rolle des Fernsehens Artistic Culture in the German-Speaking World o Feste und Tradtitionen  - ihre Wurzeln und Urspruenge  - ihre soziale und wirtschaftliche Bedeutung heute  - Vielfaeltige Feste und Tradtionen in verschiedenen Regionen o Kunst und Architektur  - Kuenstler und Architekten  - im Alltag  - Vergangenheit, Gegenwart, Zukunft o Das Berlinerer Kulturleben damals und heute  - gepraegt durch seine Geschichte  - Theater, Musik und Museen in Berlin  - Die Vielfalt innerhalb der Bevoelkerung Berlins Mult...

GENERAL Unit 1 - Drama 30% of total qualification WHAT'S ASSESSED? o SECTION A : One Shakespeare Play ( Othello )  - Critical Essays relating to Shakespeare Play ( A Critical Anthology - Tragedy ) o SECTION B : One other Tragedy or Comedy ( A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams ) HOW'S IT ASSESSED? o Written Examination ( 2hrs, 15mins ) o SECTION A : 35 marks ( AO1 | AO2 | AO3 | AO5 ) o SECTION B : 25 marks ( AO1 | AO2 | AO3 ) Unit 2 - Prose 20% of total qualification WHAT'S ASSESSED? o Language, Structure & Form o Theme: Science & Society  - Pre-1900 Text ( Frankenstein - Mary Shelley )  - Other Text ( The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood ) HOW'S IT ASSESSED? o Written Examination ( 1hr ) o 40 marks ( AO1 | AO2 | AO3 | AO4 ) Unit 3 - Poetry 30% of total qualification WHAT'S ASSESSED? o Poetic Form, Meaning & Language o SECTION A : Post-2000 Specified Poetry  - Compare with one Unseen o SECTI...

GENERAL AS - Greek History from Original Sources Option 3: Politics and Society of Ancient Sparta Literary Sources o Aristophanes, Lysistrata 980–1321 o Diodorus, 11.50 o Herodotus, 1. 65–68, 5. 39–51, 6. 56–86d, 7. 202–239 o Plutarch, Lycurgus, 6–9, 12–14, 24–26, 28 o Thucydides, 1. 79–87, 101–103 o Tyrtaeus, 10–12 o Xenophon, Constitution of the Spartans Topics o Social Structure of Sparta (incl. Spartiates, Perioikoi & Helots) o Political Structure of Sparta (incl. Kings, Gerousia, Ephors & Assembly) o Education and Values in Sparta | Role of Men and Women o Sparta and the Peloponnese, 480-404 BC (Corinth, Tegea, Argos & Messenia) o Views of Sparta from other states (Athens) o Spartan Mirage and Myth of Lycurgus (ref. Plutarch) AS - Roman History from Original Sources Option 1: Cicero and Political life in late Roman Republic Literary Sources o Cicero, Against Catiline II. 17–23, IV. 7–10, 20–22 o Cicero, Pro Sestio 75–79, 96–105 o Pro Murena ...

GENERAL Unit 1 - Listening, Reading & Writing Paper WHAT'S ASSESSED? Aspects of German-speaking society Artistic culture in the German-speaking world Multiculturalism in German-speaking society Aspects of political life in German-speaking society Grammar HOW'S IT ASSESSED? Written exam: 2 hours 30 minutes 100 marks 50% of A-level Section A - Listening & Writing ( 30 marks ) Section B - Reading & Writing ( 50 marks ) + Translation ( 10 marks & approx. 100 words each ) Unit 2 - Writing Paper WHAT'S ASSESSED? One text and one film or two texts from the list set in the specification Grammar HOW'S IT ASSESSED? Written exam: 2 hours 80 marks in total ( 40 marks & approx. 300 words each ) 20% of A-level Chosen Text - Der Besuch Der Alten Dame (Friedrich Duerrenmatt) Chosen Film - Das Leben Der Anderen (Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck) Unit 3 - Speaking Assessment WHAT'S ASSESSE...