SecondaryCode 2010
Literature in English
4 topics and 20 objectives, each one something you should be able to do.
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What this subject asks you to be able to do
1Poetry3 objectives
- Songs of Ourselves Volume 1, 15 poems: Aphra Behn, ‘Song: Love Armed’; Sujata Bhatt, ‘A Different History’; William Blake, ‘The Chimney-Sweeper’; Elizabeth Brewster, ‘Where I Come From’; Boey Kim Cheng, ‘Report to Wordsworth’; Gillian Clarke, ‘Lament’; Kevin Halligan, ‘The Cockroach’; Seamus Heaney, ‘Follower’; Liz Lochhead, ‘Storyteller’; Charles Mungoshi, ‘Before the Sun’; Katherine Philips, ‘A Married State’; Alexander Pope, From ‘An Essay on Man’; Carol Rumens, ‘Carpet-weavers, Morocco’; William Shakespeare, ‘Sonnet 18’; Judith Wright, ‘Hunting Snake’
- Songs of Ourselves Volume 2, Part 3, 15 poems: Nancy Fotheringham Cato, ‘The Road’; Sarah Jackson, ‘The Instant of My Death’; Arun Kolatkar, ‘The Bus’; Julius Chingono, ‘At the Bus Station’; Imtiaz Dharker, ‘These are the Times We Live in’; Elizabeth Jennings, ‘The Enemies’; Sampurna Chattarji, ‘Boxes’; W H Auden, ‘The Capital’; Arthur Yap, ‘an afternoon nap’; Elizabeth Smither, ‘Plaits’; Elizabeth Daryush, ‘Children of Wealth’; Thomas Love Peacock, ‘Rich and Poor or, Saint and Sinner’; Musaemura Zimunya, ‘A Long Journey’; Stevie Smith, ‘Touch and Go’; George Szirtes, ‘Song’
- Kumukanda, Kayo Chingonyi, 15 poems: The Colour of James Brown’s Scream; Fisherman’s Song; Broomhall; Some Bright Elegance; The N Word (I.); Curfew; Waves; Kumukanda; A Proud Blemish; Grief; Andrews Corner; Kung’anda; ‘Round Midnight; Baltic Mill; This poem contains gull song
2Prose8 objectives
- Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
- What it Means When a Man Falls from the Sky, Lesley Nneka Arimah
- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
- Fire on the Mountain, Anita Desai
- Hullaballoo in the Guava Orchard, Kiran Desai
- I’m the King of the Castle, Susan Hill
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
- Stories of Ourselves Volume 2, 10 stories: Christina Rossetti, ‘Nick’; Olive Schreiner, ‘The Woman’s Rose’; Ralph Ellison, ‘The Black Ball’; Mulk Raj Anand, ‘The Gold Watch’; Margaret Atwood, ‘When It Happens’; J G Ballard, ‘The Man Who Walked on the Moon’; Jamaica Kincaid, ‘A Walk to the Jetty’; Jane Gardam, ‘Showing the Flag’; Aminatta Forna, ‘Haywards Heath’; Romesh Gunesekera, ‘Fluke’
3Drama5 objectives
- Blues for an Alabama Sky, Pearl Cleage
- A Taste of Honey, Shelagh Delaney
- Princess & the Hustler, Chinonyerem Odimba
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare
- Antony and Cleopatra, William Shakespeare
4Assessment objectives4 objectives
- Demonstrate thorough familiarity with what literary texts contain across the three main forms of drama, poetry and prose, backed up by references to the text itself
- Understand what literary texts signify and the contexts that lie behind them, and probe past the surface to reveal a fuller awareness of ideas and attitudes
- Recognise and appreciate how the choices writers make in language, structure and form bring about and mould meanings and effects
- Express your own response to literary texts, showing sensitivity and a sound knowledge of them
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