UNIT 1 Cambridge IGCSE® Literature in English – Introduction to the Teacher’s Resource CD-ROM e This is the only document in Unit 1 of the CD-ROM, and it serves the same introductory function for teachers as Unit 1 of the Coursebook does for students. pl The Cambridge IGCSE Literature in English Teacher’s Resource CD-ROM is designed to complement the Cambridge University Press Coursebook for teaching Cambridge syllabus 0486: IGCSE Literature (English). However, much of it will still be relevant if you are following a Cambridge IGCSE Literature syllabus with a different syllabus code. Make sure you have access to the latest version of whichever syllabus you are following. m The resources on the CD-ROM have been written to complement the Literature text extracts and their related Activities in the Coursebook. The links between the CD-ROM and the Coursebook are made explicit in the Teacher notes for each unit and in many of the student Worksheets and Handouts. In addition to complementary Worksheets based on texts in the Coursebook, the CD-ROM contains Worksheets on additional texts. Sa The Worksheets and other Handouts for students promote active learning skills. This is important for a subject that prizes informed personal responses to the texts that students read. Towards the beginning of the course, you should take students through the ‘Active learning’ section of Unit 1 of the Coursebook (on page 5) to show them the practical ways in which they can take responsibility for their own learning. For some students, this concept will be difficult to grasp. But this is a subject where there really are no ‘correct’ or ‘model’ answers. The resources in both Coursebook and CD-ROM help students to develop effective strategies for responding in original and individual ways to the texts they read. How to get the most from this CD-ROM On this CD-ROM you will find the following types of documents: Teacher notes. These provide both an overview of a particular unit and specific information and guidance for teachers in respect of particular Worksheets or Handouts for students. The Teacher notes document for a particular unit should, therefore, be read before using any of that unit’s sheets for students. Note that Units 1 and 2 of the CD-ROM are introductory materials for teachers only. Worksheets. This is the most common type of document on the CD-ROM, and these create active learning opportunities for students. There are Worksheets available for all Units 3–9, and in general they are designed to be useable at all ability levels, but any differentiation is noted in the related Teacher notes and in the Contents grid in the Unit 1 menu. Worksheets are provided in an editable format in Word, so you may customise them as you wish. Cambridge IGCSE Literature in English © Cambridge University Press 2012 Unit 1-Introduction.indd 1 1 8/16/2012 5:51:12 PM Unit 1 Introduction to the Teacher’s Resource CD-ROM The Worksheets complement the texts and Activities found in the Coursebook, with some containing additional texts. These sheets should be used in the order that best suits the structure of your Literature course. They are not designed to be read or used in a sequential order. You should feel free to take materials from various Units to support any lesson or teaching topic you are planning. Where relevant, Worksheets will provide an ‘at-a-glance’ indication of what students will need to complete the Activities on a particular Worksheet – see the ‘You will need’ box near the top of the sheet. Handouts. These are documents that contain mainly information or checklists to help students evaluate their own progress rather than Activities relating to specific texts. e Lesson plans. In addition to a Lesson plan template in Unit 2, you will find specimen Lesson plans in Units 8 and 9. These are available in editable Word format, and can be modified to reflect your own teaching circumstances, as well as your selection of texts. pl Teacher support sheets. These sheets give guidance and useful reference materials about specific issues or topics for a particular unit. They are aimed specifically at teachers, and will help with planning and focusing your teaching. Extract sheets. These sheets contain annotatable electronic versions of all the texts from the Coursebook (where permission could be obtained). The sheets are grouped by the unit in which they appear, and they can be printed or projected onto a classroom whiteboard. (A full Acknowledgements list for all texts can be found at the foot of the main CD-ROM menu.) m Image resource sheets. These contain selected images from the Coursebook for classroom projection as stimulus for class discussion and as a way in to related texts. Units 1–9 Sa The CD-ROM has the same structure as the Coursebook. The units on the CD-ROM share the same number as their counterparts in the Coursebook. This helps to provide a coherent framework for all the documentation. It also enables you to navigate the various units quickly in order to find relevant material for your lesson(s). The descriptions below provide a brief overview of the content of each unit. You are advised to read the Introduction to each unit’s Teacher notes document for a more detailed overview and rationale. The first two units are aimed solely at teachers. As you can see, Unit 1 tells you how to use the CD-ROM and what it contains. Unit 2 provides specimen course-planning documents that can be modified to reflect the particular circumstances of teaching and learning within your centre. These provide illustrations of possible approaches to planning, and should not be seen as definitive model plans for the obvious reason that one plan cannot meet all centres’ needs. Units 3–5 provide a variety of Worksheets and Handouts aimed at students, and include the kind of Activities that promote an active learning approach to the subject. The Activities complement and, in some cases, extend those found in the Coursebook on analysing poetry, prose and drama respectively. Cambridge IGCSE Literature in English © Cambridge University Press 2012 Unit 1-Introduction.indd 2 2 8/16/2012 5:51:12 PM Unit 1 Introduction to the Teacher’s Resource CD-ROM Unit 3 helps to develop skills required when responding to poems, and the materials could be used as preparatory work before studying Poetry set texts. You may feel that one or more of the poems could be studied as part of a project leading towards a Coursework assignment. The structured approach in many of the Worksheets can be useful during the early stages of a programme of work that prepares students for the Poetry section of the Unseen Examination Paper. Unit 4 helps to develop skills required when responding to prose fiction, and could be used before studying Prose set texts. Perhaps some of the texts might be useful as part of your teaching for a Prose Coursework assignment. The structured approach in many of the Worksheets can be useful in developing the close reading skills required for the Prose section of the Unseen Examination Paper. Unit 5 helps students to consider drama texts as plays, intended for performance, rather than texts to be read like prose texts. Again, the sheets can be used to teach Drama skills for all types of assessment in the IGCSE Literature course. pl e Unit 6 provides Worksheets and Handouts designed to develop both critical and empathic writing skills. They include opportunities for self-evaluation and also for teacher evaluation of student writing. The teacher notes provide useful commentaries on the strengths and weaknesses of student writing examples. Unit 7 includes an explanation of the requirements of the Unseen Paper (Paper 3 of syllabus 0486), with guidance set out in a question-and-answer format (but please check against the current syllabus on the Cambridge website at www.cie.org.uk). There are also three IGCSE-style practice questions on Unseen texts – two on relatively recent texts, and one on a more established poem. m Unit 8 contains generic guidance and Worksheet Activities that can be modified to reflect the particular set texts you are teaching (e.g. for Papers 1, 4 or 5 of syllabus 0486). Sa Unit 9 contains Handouts for students for use at different stages of their Coursework assignment (Paper 2 of syllabus 0486), from writing the first draft through to presenting their final version. The Unit also contains a Teacher support sheet on the subject of Coursework task-setting; this contains examples of effective and less effective Coursework tasks. I hope you find that the material on this CD-ROM usefully complements that found in the Coursebook and that you enjoy using and/or modifying the material in your own lessons. Russell Carey Cambridge IGCSE Literature in English © Cambridge University Press 2012 Unit 1-Introduction.indd 3 3 8/16/2012 5:51:12 PM Unit 5 Responding to Drama Teacher notes For Syllabus 0486, students must study Drama for either Paper 1 or Paper 4. Depending on the route through the syllabus you are following, students may also study Drama for: Such film adaptations can certainly enhance a reading of a play. The viewing of a key scene alongside a close reading of the same scene in the text can help students to engage closely with the dramatic impact of the play. Indeed, in the case of some Shakespeare plays, scenes could be compared from different film versions. pl • one or both of their Coursework assignments • Set Text Paper 5. e Introduction distance of your school. However, there are ways of bringing students into contact with the whole idea of plays as performance. Many of the Drama texts set for IGCSE have been made into films, and DVDs or internet clips are generally accessible. A useful website for finding film versions by title or writer is the Internet Movie Database at http://www.imdb.com/ For Syllabus 0476, students must study a play by Shakespeare for Paper 1. It should be stressed that the film should complement students’ appreciation of the play, and not replace it. Students who write about the use of machine guns and action taking place at petrol stations in Romeo and Juliet are referring to the Baz Luhrmann film Romeo + Juliet rather than Shakespeare’s play. m The Coursebook and the Worksheets on the CD-ROM aim to put students at their ease when engaging with the meanings and effects of plays. The reading and related Activities are designed to: Sa • develop students’ confidence in uncovering the surface meanings and deeper implications of plays they study • provide them with a vocabulary and active learning strategies to explore plays critically • develop their skills at producing informed personal responses to the plays they study. Stronger student responses to Drama texts very largely demonstrate an awareness of the text as a play, that is, something intended for live performance in a theatre. Such responses refer to the text as a ‘play’ rather than a ‘book’, and discuss effects on the ‘audience’ rather than the ‘reader’. These are crucial distinctions. The Worksheets in this Unit get students engaging with Drama texts as plays, and characters as fictional creations intended for the stage. It would be ideal if a play you are teaching were being staged at a theatre within travelling Where time permits, useful Activities involve students themselves going beyond a reading of the words and moving towards a re-creation of key scene(s) in drama-focused Activities. Handout 5.1 This Handout offers an opportunity for student self-evaluation: how well do the students know their Drama text? It would take about 15 minutes to complete and discuss implications of students’ answers. It might be usefully scheduled towards the end of the course before the final revision begins. Worksheet 5.1 This Worksheet looks at an immediate aspect of Drama scripts not found in, say, Prose fiction texts, namely, stage directions. Cambridge IGCSE Literature in English © Cambridge University Press 2012 Unit 5 Teacher note.indd 1 1 8/16/2012 5:33:17 PM Unit 5 Teacher notes In order to get the most out of this Activity, students should read the introductory pages of the Coursebook: Responding to Drama unit (pages 95–98). Direct them in particular to the differences between Prose and Drama texts in the section ‘Analyse the ways dramatists use form, structure and language’ (page 96). Activity 5.1. It can be customised as exam practice for a particular extract selected from your Drama set text, or for an extract from Coursework texts you may be teaching. Many 20th-century IGCSE texts include a good deal of stage direction, for example, plays by Miller, Williams, Hansberry, Ayckbourn. In the Worksheet students are directed to read pages 101–102, which provide an overview of the various purposes of stage directions, giving information about: Worksheet 5.3 the volume of characters’ voices what characters look like how characters behave aspects of lighting the appearance of the set. pl The Worksheet asks students to apply and extend this knowledge to an appreciation of the extract from A Streetcar Named Desire (Coursebook, pages 123–125). For Activity 1, the notes they make under the various headings will enable them to appreciate the contribution that stage directions make to the way they visualise the play. ‘How would this scene appear on stage?’ is a very important question students should ask of all key scenes. The Worksheet takes a two-staged approach to the study of the two characters in the extract, brothers Biff and Happy. Both stages are essential when developing a detailed appreciation of characters in plays (and indeed Prose texts). e • • • • • Students need to refer to the Coursebook (pages 104–106) or the Extract sheet 5.1 for the extract from Death of a Salesman. m Activity 1 really asks for students’ impressions of the two characters, that is, what they learn about Biff and Happy from the evidence provided in the extract. The Activity asks for lists of bullet points, though a mind map would also provide a useful visual aid for gathering relevant points. Answers could include the characters’ likes and dislikes, their thoughts and feelings about life generally, and about their work in particular. Sa Activity 2 gets students to build on their increased understanding of the play’s dramatic impact. This Activity has three stages and would be best suited to work in groups of three student actors – though diffident actors might be persuaded to join groups as directors. Where time is at a premium, this speaking and Drama Activity could be amended to focus on the Drama set text you are teaching. One caveat should be made here. When students are writing responses to passagebased questions and general essay questions on plays, they should not focus too heavily or exclusively on how the stage directions contribute to the overall dramatic impact. The primary focus should be on the words the characters speak. Worksheet 5.2 This Worksheet can be used to complement and build on the general points made in Activity 2 is a more challenging one, focusing on skills required for higher grades at IGCSE. It still deals with students’ responses to the two characters, but additionally has a focus on the writer, Miller, and how he presents the characters. In this extract, the characters are vividly conveyed through the use of dialogue. The ‘Quotation and Comment’ table is encouraged in a number of Activities in the Coursebook and on the CD-ROM. This is because it provides a framework in which students can explore in detail the words writers use together with their effects. The comments in the Comment column should be longer than the quotations, as can be seen in the example provided. Similarly, in critical essays their extended comments after quotations demonstrate students’ ability to develop and sustain critical analysis. Cambridge IGCSE Literature in English © Cambridge University Press 2012 Unit 5 Teacher note.indd 2 2 8/16/2012 5:33:18 PM Unit 5 Teacher notes This kind of Activity can serve as an explicit reminder to students to: used as given or amended to reflect the play(s) you are teaching. • quote to support points they make • provide analytical comment on key words and their effects. Romeo and Juliet is of course a common IGCSE exam and Coursework text. However, to adapt the Worksheet, simply select an extract which reveals conflict between characters and then follow the three Activities in this Worksheet: This Worksheet asks students to consider the particular features of Drama texts by taking an extract from Prose fiction and rewriting it as a Drama script. Support is provided in the Worksheet for each of these three stages. Worksheet 5.6 pl Students are asked to read or review the pages from the Coursebook noted in the ‘You will need’ box. Some guidance may be needed here to ensure students do not spend too long reading the background information. Most importantly, they will need to read carefully the extract from Roald Dahl’s The Hitch-hiker (pages 56–57), and think about how it could be adapted as a Drama text. • a ‘Quotation and Comment’ table to arrange students’ responses • small group discussion about the best way to communicate the conflict in a powerfully dramatic way • students rehearsing and acting out the scene. e Worksheet 5.4 describing characters and how they look describing how characters speak setting the scene for the stage providing information about sound and lighting. Sa • • • • m This sort of exercise need not take long, perhaps 30–40 minutes (plus 15–20 minutes’ reading time). It provides a valuable insight into the sorts of decisions writers of plays face when: This Worksheet asks students to read extracts from the beginnings of three plays (or near the beginning in the case of the Hansberry text). These beginnings can be compared with each other, and also with the beginnings of students’ own exam or Coursework texts. The worksheet directs students to an example of what a Drama script looks like (from Williams’s The Glass Menagerie) and an explanation of stage directions – on pages 98–102. This Drama extract can be scan-read quickly for key features rather than read in detail, as it is not central to the activity. A Further activity (where time permits) asks students to decide on the merits of each other’s scripts. By acting out parts of texts, students engage with significant features used by each of the student dramatists as they focus on the ways in which writers seek to achieve particular dramatic effects. Worksheet 5.5 It is a universally accepted truth that conflict is at the heart of Drama. This Worksheet can be This Worksheet could take 30–40 minutes (plus 15–20 minutes’ reading time). Small group discussion of each of the three extracts precedes note-making and brief writing Activities. A series of specific questions helps support students through their discussions and writing. These questions could be applied to the opening of any Drama text. You may wish to include a more formal exercise in which the groups report back their ideas to the class as a whole. Worksheets 5.7 and 5.8 One of the best ways to increase students’ detailed appreciation of a play is to focus teaching and learning Activities on the play’s key scenes. There simply is not sufficient time to focus on all pages of the Drama script in the same close detail. But by concentrating on the key moments in the play, you will be teaching the necessary skills that students can then apply to any moment in the play. Cambridge IGCSE Literature in English © Cambridge University Press 2012 Unit 5 Teacher note.indd 3 3 8/16/2012 5:33:18 PM Unit 5 Teacher notes You will need to provide copies of the relevant extracts. The extracts should be as long as the ones found in the passage-based questions on the Set Texts examination Papers. You can access past papers via the Cambridge Teacher Support website – for which you will need to use your centre’s login and password details – see http://www.cie.org.uk/profiles/teachers/ support This Worksheet on a key moment in Shakespeare’s Macbeth can be used as given or amended to focus on an extract from the Drama text you are teaching. The emphasis is on the structure within the extract, and in particular on the building of suspense. The annotation and note-making Activities are supplemented by speaking and Drama Activities. In exploring the way suspense is built, students’ discussion could focus on the following aspects, as noted on the Worksheet: • • • • • • the words the characters speak the way they speak shifts in tone of voice quantity of lines spoken the use of pauses noises off stage. pl These Worksheets are best scheduled after an initial reading of the play has taken place. They allow students to develop their own responses to the text in greater detail. Worksheet 5.9 e The content of Worksheets 5.7 and 5.8 deals, respectively, with the opening and ending of the Drama set text. Openings and endings of texts are very important areas of texts. Each Worksheet provides a series of questions that enables students to respond appropriately to the ways in which writers begin and end their plays. m Each Worksheet ends with a generic question, which can be amended to reflect the text you are teaching. These Further activities can be set as homework tasks if there is no time left in class-time to complete them. Students’ appreciation of how a writer creates and sustains suspense will be strengthened by this Worksheet’s combination of private study, discussion, rehearsal and performance. Sa These IGCSE-type 45-minute questions expect students to devote most of their time to engaging with the detail of the extract. Examples of good practice can be found in past papers on the Cambridge Teacher Support website. Worksheet 5.10 This Worksheet, taking the form of a quiz, could form useful revision of some dramatic terminology and should take no more than 5 minutes. It will serve as a succinct reminder that plays are pieces of writing intended for performance. Cambridge IGCSE Literature in English © Cambridge University Press 2012 Unit 5 Teacher note.indd 4 4 8/16/2012 5:33:18 PM Handout 5.1 How well do I understand Drama texts? Use this checklist to assess your understanding of the play(s) you study. Statement Very well I know how to visualise what happens on stage when I read the play. 2 I appreciate the way the writer begins the play. 3 I know the detail of the plot. 4 I understand the play’s main themes (or deeper meanings). 5 I appreciate the ways in which the writer presents the characters on stage. 6 I appreciate the ways in which the settings are created, and why. 7 I know where the shifts in mood occur in the play, and why. 8 I can analyse the structure of the play: why scenes appear in the order they do. 9 I am able to comment on how effective the ending of a play is. Not so well Sa m pl e 1 Well 10 I understand why it is important in essays to use the words play and audience (rather than book and reader). Cambridge IGCSE Literature in English © Cambridge University Press 2012 Handouts 5.1.indd 1 8/13/2012 2:36:34 PM Worksheet 5.3 Worksheet 5.3 Making notes on characters You will need: • The extract from Death of a Salesman on pages 104–106 of the Coursebook or on Extract sheet: 5.1 This sheet suggests two strategies for making notes: • • writing lists using a Quotation and Comment table. e This sheet refers to the extract from Death of a Salesman in the Coursebook. But the strategies used in this Worksheet can be used for your notes on characters from any text. Activities pl 1 Read the extract carefully, and then make a list of what you learn about the two characters a Biff For example: Doesn’t know what he wants from life Drifted from one job to another m • __________________________________________________________________ • __________________________________________________________________ • __________________________________________________________________ Sa • __________________________________________________________________ • __________________________________________________________________ • __________________________________________________________________ b Happy For example: Looks up to his brother Stuck in his job – to move up he must wait for his manager to die • __________________________________________________________________ • __________________________________________________________________ • __________________________________________________________________ • __________________________________________________________________ • __________________________________________________________________ • __________________________________________________________________ Cambridge IGCSE Literature in English © Cambridge University Press 2012 1 Worksheet 5.3 2 Activity 2 encourages you to build on Activity 1 by exploring the ways in which the writer presents a particular character. In the table below write down key quotations which bring to life Biff’s character. In the Comment column you should comment on the effects of key words used by Miller, the writer. In critical essays, comments should be longer than the quotations. Your comments allow you to show your ability to analyse the words writers use in creating their characters. This sort of note-making Activity can be useful in organising your thoughts about characters in the plays (and also Prose texts) that you study. Quotation Comment (This should be brief) (This should be longer than the quotation) pl e I don’t know – what I’m supposed to want. m ... it’s a measly manner of existence Sa To suffer fifty weeks of the year for the sake of a two-week vacation ... The numbers in this quotation make clear Biff’s unhappiness about work, suggesting that the brief ‘vacation’ is scant reward for the sheer drudgery of the work done over the rest of the year. Cambridge IGCSE Literature in English © Cambridge University Press 2012 2 Sa m pl e Worksheet 5.3 Cambridge IGCSE Literature in English © Cambridge University Press 2012 3 Extract sheet 5.2 From romeo & juliet (Act 3, Scene 5) by William Shakespeare juliet Good father, I beseech you on my knees, Hear me with patience but to speak a word. [She kneels down.] 160 e Hang thee, young baggage, disobedient wretch! I tell thee what: get thee to church a’ Thursday, Or never after look me in the face. Speak not, reply not, do not answer me! My fingers itch. Wife, we scarce thought us blest That God had lent us but this only child, But now I see this one is one too much, And that we have a curse in having her. Out on her, hilding!1 165 pl capulet m nurse God in heaven bless her! You are to blame, my lord, to rate2 her so. capulet And why, my Lady Wisdom? Hold your tongue, Good Prudence, smatter with your gossips, go. I speak no treason. O God-i-goden!3 capulet nurse May not one speak? Sa nurse 170 capulet Peace, you mumbling fool! Utter your gravity o’er a gossip’s bowl4, For here we need it not. lady capulet capulet You are too hot. od’s bread5, it makes me mad! Day, night, work, play, G Alone, in company, still my care hath been To have her matched; and having now provided A gentleman of noble parentage, 180 Of fair demesnes6, youthful and nobly ligned7, Stuffed, as they say, with honourable parts, Proportioned as one’s thought would wish a man, And then to have a wretched puling8 fool, A whining mammet9, in her fortune’s tender10, 185 To answer ‘I’ll not wed, I cannot love; I am too young, I pray you pardon me.’ Cambridge IGCSE Literature in English © Cambridge University Press 2012 Extract 5.2.indd 1 175 1 8/16/2012 6:28:59 PM Extract sheet 5.2 But and you will not wed, I’ll pardon you: Graze where you will, you shall not house with me. Look to’t, think on’t, I do not use to jest. 190 Thursday is near, lay hand on heart, advise: And you be mine, I’ll give you to my friend; And you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets, For by my soul, I’ll ne’er acknowledge thee, Nor what is mine shall never do thee good. 195 Trust to’t, bethink you, I’ll not be forsworn11. [Exit capulet] Is there no pity sitting in the clouds That sees into the bottom of my grief? O sweet my mother, cast me not away! Delay this marriage for a month, a week, Or if you do not, make the bridal bed In that dim monument where Tybalt lies. 200 e juliet pl lady capulet Talk not to me, for I’ll not speak a word. Do as thou wilt, for I have done with thee. [Exit lady capulet] 1 hilding wretch 2 rate scold 3 God-i-goden! clear off! (mockingly: ‘good evening’) 4 gossip’s bowl drinks at a hen party m 5 God’s bread the sacred bread served at Mass (an oath) 6 demesnes lands 7 ligned descended 8 puling crying 9 mammet puppet 10 tender offer Sa 11 be forsworn be denied, break my oath ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ Act 3, Scene 5, lines 158–203, from Cambridge School Shakespeare edition, 2005. Cambridge IGCSE Literature in English © Cambridge University Press 2012 Extract 5.2.indd 2 2 8/16/2012 6:28:59 PM m pl e Image resource sheet 5.4 Sa Part 2, Unit 5, Responding to Drama, page 114 Caption: What impact do you think the sight of the blood on Macbeth’s hands would have on an audience? © Donald Cooper/Photostage (Birmingham Repertory Theatre, 1995) ISBN: 9781107637054 Cambridge IGCSE Literature in English © Cambridge University Press 2012 Image resource sheets.indd 10 8/16/2012 5:46:37 PM