CHESTERHOUSE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
GRADE 11
Our Grade 11 pupils are concluding their International General Certificate of Secondary
Education (IGCSE) course this year.
The course focuses on the pupils’ ability to put their language and writing knowledge into
practice; all assessments are passage-based and applied. The focus of our class work is
thus the writing of essay-style responses to language and literature. Because essays
require a thorough knowledge and sound understanding of writing styles, the
manipulation of register and tone, and an awareness of purpose and audience, formal
elements of language are not neglected.
Our pupils write an external IGCSE examination in June 2010. Thereafter, they embark
on the first semester of their AS course which will be completed in November 2011.
IGCSE 2010
AS 2011
PROPOSED PROGRAMME
GRADE 11 - 2010
WEEKLY PLANNING
TERM 1 2010
Week 1
20 – 22
January
Week 2
25 – 29
January
Week 3
1 – 5 February
Week 5
8 – 12
February
15 – 19 Feb
Week 6
22 – 26 Feb
Week 7
1 – 5 March
Week 8
Week 9
Week 10
8 – 12 March
15 – 19 March
22 – 26 March
Week 4
TERM 2 2010
Week 1
7 – 9 April
Week 2
12 – 16 April
Week 3
19 – 23 April
Week 4
26 – 30 April
WORK
The taste of watermelon
The taste of watermelon, The Lemon
Orchard
Yellow wallpaper, Signalman
On her knees, Meteor
There comes soft Rain, Third and Final
Cont
Secrets, How it Happened
2 days general prep, 3 March mini “exam”
on SS
Paper 2 Nov 2009 – complete as class ex
Paper 3 Nov 2009 – complete as class ex
Paper 2 Nov 2007 – complete as class ex
Paper 3 Nov 2007 – compete as class ex
Paper 2 June 2007 – complete as class ex
Paper 3 June 2007 – complete as class ex
Revision: To kill a Mockingbird
Week 5
3 – 7 May
Revision: Much Ado
Week 6
10 – 11 May
Revision: Keats
Week 7
Week 8
Week 9
17 – 21 May
24 – 27 May
31 May – 4
June
7 – 11 June
14 – 15 June
EXAMS
EXAMS
EXAMS
Week 10
Week 11
TERM 3 2010
Week 1
13 – 16 July
Week 2
19 – 23 July
RESOURCES
Stories of ourselves,
worksheet
SoO, worksheets, CIE
questions
SoO essays, worksheets;
reading revision timetable;
revision guideline
SoO essays and
worksheets
SoO essays and
worksheets
SoO essays and
worksheets
CIE questions, and analysis
of style notes
Feedback notes; text book
Feedback notes; text book
Feedback notes; text book
Feedback notes; text book
Feedback notes; text book
Feedback notes; text book
Text, CIE Exam structure;
revision notes, CIE essays
Text, revision notes, CIE
essays
Text, revision notes, CIE
essays
EXAMS
EXAMS
IGCSE to AS transition, poetry terminology
Childhood, Because I could not…, One Art
Week 3
26 – 30 July
Week 4
2 – 6 Aug
Song: Tears, Idle Tears, My parents…,
For Heidi
Essay writing: Creative June 2007
Week 5
9 – 13 Aug
Essay writing: Persuasive June 2007
Notes and hand-outs
Songs, hand-outs,
worksheets
Songs, hand-outs,
worksheets
Text book, hand-outs, CIE
Q paper
Text book, hand-outs, CIE
Q paper
Week 6
16 – 20 Aug
Week 7
23 – 27 Aug
Week 8
Week 9
30 Aug – 3
Sept
6 – 10 Sept
Week 10
13 – 17 Sept
Reservist, You cannot…, Anthem for
doomed…
Essay writing: Creative Nov. 2007
Week 11
20 – 23 Sept
Essay writing: Persuasive Nov. 2007
TERM 4 2010
Week 1
5 – 8 Oct
Praise song…, Follower, Elegy for my
father’s father
The trees are down, A qui bon dire, The
Trees
Country school, Cambodia, Attack
Because I liked you better, My dreams are
a field…, Friend
A man I am, Here, A dream
Week 2
11 – 15 Oct
Week 3
18 – 22 Oct
Week 4
25 – 29 Oct
Week 5
1 – 5 Nov
Time’s fool, Cold in the earth, From The
Triumph of Time
Meeting at night, From The Ballad of
Reading Gaol
Essay writing: Creative June 2008
Week 6
8 – 12 Nov
Essay Writing: Persuasive June 2008
Week 7
Week 8
Week 9
15 – 19 Nov
22 – 26 Nov
29 Nov – 3
Dec
EXAMS
EXAMS
EXAMS
Songs, hand-outs,
worksheets
Songs, hand-outs,
worksheets
Songs, hand-outs,
worksheets
Songs, hand-outs,
worksheets
Text book, hand-outs, CIE
Q paper
Text book, hand-outs, CIE
Q paper
Songs, hand-outs,
worksheets
Songs, hand-outs,
worksheets
Songs, hand-outs,
worksheets
Songs, hand-outs,
worksheets
Songs, hand-outs,
worksheets
Songs, hand-outs,
worksheets
EXAMINATIONS 2010
IGCSE FINALS
June: Language:
2 hours – 50 marks
Composition: 2 hours – 50 marks
Literature:
2 hours 15 minutes – 60 marks
45 minutes – 20 marks
Short Stories
(20 marks)
Keats’ Poetry
(20 marks)
Much Ado about…
(20 marks)
To Kill A Mockingbird (20 marks)
AS November:
Composition: 2 hours – 50 marks
Literature:
2 hours – 50 marks
Songs of Ourselves Essay (25 marks)
Songs of Ourselves Passage (25 marks)
CAMRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATION
International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE): written in June
2010
Course designations:
0486 Literature
0500 Language
Examinations per course:
Literature:
Paper 4
Paper 5
2 hours 15 minutes 60 marks
45 minutes
20 marks
Language:
Paper 2
Paper 3
2 hours
2 hours
50 marks
50 marks
0486 Literature
0486 Paper 4:
Components:
Drama (Much Ado About Nothing)
Poetry – no emphatic response question
Prose (Short Stories)
Requirements:
Answer one question per section: 3 in total
Number of questions per title:
3
Types of questions:
passage-based
essay
“emphatic” or creative response
Total marks:
3 x 20 = 60 marks
N.B. Students must answer at least one passage-based and at least one essay or
emphatic question.
0486 Paper 5:
Component:
Prose (To kill a Mockingbird)
Requirements:
Answer one question
Number of questions per title:
3
Types of questions:
passage-based
essay
“emphatic” or creative response
Total marks:
20 marks
0500 Language
0500 Paper 2:
N.B. Dictionaries are not allowed
Components:
Two interrelated passages 600–700 words each
Types of questions: Comprehension-style questions
Understanding how writers achieve their objectives
Summary
Requirements:
Answer all three questions
0500 Paper 3:
20 marks
10 marks
20 marks
N.B. Dictionaries may not be used
Components:
Section 1:
Directed writing (e.g. letter, diary, dialogue)
Section 2:
Composition
25 marks
25 marks
Types of questions:
Section 1:
Use and develop given information in another form
Section 2:
At least two argumentative/discursive; two descriptive and two narrative
titles set
Requirements:
Section 1:
Reading and writing objectives assessed
Section 2:
Response between 350 and 450 words
PRECRIBED BOOKS
IGCSE
GCSE English: Complete Revision and Practice, Editor: Chrissie Williams, Coordination
Group Publications, 2003
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee, Heineman New Windmills, 1966, Oxford
Stories of Ourselves, Cambridge University Press, 2008, New Delhi
Keats, Selected and Edited by Nicholas Roe, Everyman, 1996, London
Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare, Pearson Longman, Fifth Impression 2006, Essex
AS
Songs of Ourselves, , Cambridge University Press, 2008, New Delhi
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
TEACHERS
Ms M Rees: m.rees@chesterhouse.co.za
Ms E Snyders: e.snyders@chesterhouse.co.za