SWORN JUNIOR COLLEGE
5th A & B
2015
SECTION A
AIMS
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To show detailed knowledge of the content of literary texts in the
three main forms: drama, poetry and prose.
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To understand the meaning of literary texts and their contexts; and
explore texts beyond surface meanings to show deeper awareness of ideas or
attitudes
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To be able to recognize and appreciate ways in which writers use
language, structure and form to create and shape meaning and effects.
4)
To be able to communicate a sensitive and informed personal
response to literary texts.
ASSESSMENT
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Written and oral tests
Group work
Oral presentations
Dramatizations
Summarize ideas through visual aids
Memorizations
Arts and Crafts
CONTENTS
POETRY
ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY IN ENGLISH
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Sujata Bhatt, A Different History
Gerard Manley Hopkins, Pied Beauty
Allen Curnow, Continuum
Edwin Muir, Horses
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Judith Wright, Hunting Snake
Ted Hughes, Pike
Christina Rossetti, The Woodspurge
Kevin Halligan, The Cockroach
Margaret Atwood, The City Planners
Norman MacCaig, Summer Farm
Elizabeth Brewster, Where I Come From
William Wordsworth, Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
Unseen poems for analysis
PROSE
“Fasting, Feasting” by Anita Desai
Stories of Ourselves
Thomas Hardy, “The Son’s Veto”
Katherine Mansfield, “Her First Ball”
VS Pritchett, “The Fly in the Ointment”
Graham Greene, “The Destructors”
R.K. Narayan, “A Horse and Two Goats”
Ted Hughes, “The Rain Horse”
Murris Lurrie, “My Greatest Ambition”
Ahdaf Soueif, “Sandpiper”
Penelope Fitzgerald, “At Hiruharama”
PG Woodhouse, “The Custody of the Pumpkin”
Unseen passages for analysis
DRAMA
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by William Shakespeare