SAMPLE ASSIGNMENT FOR PART 3 Literature : texts and contexts

Learning outcome: consider the changing historical, cultural and social contexts in which particular texts are written and received.

Example of a series of works for part 3

PLT: The slave (Isaac Singer) – novel (against Jewish orthodoxy)

PLA: The Crucible (Arthur Miller) – play (against religious extremism)

Free choice: The Kite runner (Khaled Husseini) - novel (against Taliban orthodoxy)

Linking theme: fundamentalism