AQA English Language Paper 1

This booklet is a collection of texts based on the theme of freedom.
To ensure that pupils are looking at a broad range of texts, it includes extracts from a various authors and genres.

I have also included the introductory PowerPoint which is used alongside this booklet. Each lesson focusses on a key question for English Language Paper 1.
Example responses are provided and media clips are used to introduce some of these questions.

The extracts are as follows:
Freedom lyrics by Beyoncé as an introduction to the theme
Non-fiction extract from ‘The Life of Frederick Douglass’
12 Years a Slave - Solomon Northup
Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a dream’ speech
- These are all introductory texts, which is why there is a mixture of fiction and non-fiction.

Extracts from the following texts are also included:
The Help - Kathryn Stockett
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
The Awakening - Kate Chopin
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
The Book Thief - Markus Zusac
Private Peaceful - Michael Morpurgo
Shawshank Redemption - Stephen King
Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Maze Runner - James Dashner