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Literature in English

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Year 1

10 topics
General Knowledge in Literature
  • Use knowledge and understanding of concepts, types, importance of literature and literary genres in relation to oral and written literature.
    • Explain the concepts, types and importance of literature.
    • Differentiate between oral and written literature.
    • Compare and contrast the relationship between genres in oral and written literature.
  • Use varied literary tools for analysing texts for pleasure to create love and interest in literature
    • Use the tools in analysing varied level appropriate texts
Knowing Your Narrative Elements
  • Establish meaning by exploring a variety of prose fictional texts for pleasure.
    • Discuss short stories and novels of varied contexts for pleasure
    • Make a distinction between a variety of prose fiction texts.
    • Establish the purposes and appeal of a variety of prose texts.
  • Analyse the author's creation of elements of prose.
    • Review knowledge and understanding of the tools of literary analyses, e.g., elements of prose
    • Examine characters and theme, and how they reflect context and society
    • Discuss how the elements of language and style enhance meaning in fictional texts
  • Analyse authors choice of language and style in prose fictional texts to create effect.
    • Review knowledge and understanding of the tools of literary analyses, e.g., elements of prose
    • Examine characters and theme, and how they reflect context and society
    • Discuss how the elements of language and style enhance meaning in fictional texts
Appreciation
  • Apply the knowledge of aspects of context, plot structures and setting in interpreting the text.
    • Establish the relationship between context and setting
    • Examine different types of plot devices using level appropriate texts
    • Analyse the relationship between/among plot, subplots and conflict
From Narrative to Craft
  • Adapt and create narrative pieces
    • Produce summaries of longer texts exhibiting different parts and types of plot structures.
    • Produce a narrative piece with the elements learnt (plot and setting)
    • Dramatise portions of narrative texts such as subplots
    • Write a review of other learners' pieces and some read novels
Knowing Your Dramatic Elements
  • Discuss the contribution of plot to the meaning of dramatic texts.
    • Review knowledge in elements of prose and apply them in the discussion of elements of drama
    • Identify and explain the significance of the plot
    • Identify the various conflicts in drama texts and explain how these move the plot forward
  • Discuss the contribution of setting in dramatic texts.
    • Discuss the significance of setting to the development of selected drama texts
  • Discuss Characterisation in dramatic texts.
    • Examine the different types of characters making distinction between direct and indirect characterisation in selected drama texts.
    • Analyse similarities and differences between characters in relation to their actions and decisions.
Appreciation
  • Interpret how plot, setting, and character contribute to the meaning of drama texts.
    • Identify the use of plot, setting and characters in drama texts
    • Analyse the importance of plot, setting and characters in the development of drama texts.
    • Discuss the use of dramatic devices in different level appropriate drama texts.
    • Appreciate dramatic texts for its empathetic effect
  • Make a distinction between themes and style in appreciating drama texts for effect.
    • Explain how themes are developed to bring out the main concerns of drama texts
    • Discuss the effects of the elements of style on drama texts
    • Discuss the use of dramatic devices in different appropriate drama texts
    • Apply the knowledge of theme and style to appreciate level appropriate drama texts
From Script to Stage
  • Use the skills acquired to produce and perform a drama sketch.
    • Perform monologues of chosen scenes from a variety of plays.
    • Perform skits of chosen scenes from a variety of plays.
    • Write and perform simple skits from stories read
    • Write and perform a sketch on relevant themes and values such as honesty, hard work, patriotism
    • Write and produce plays using the skills acquired.
  • Use the skills acquired to write drama pieces
    • Perform monologues of chosen scenes from a variety of plays.
    • Perform skits of chosen scenes from a variety of plays.
    • Write and perform simple skits from stories read
    • Write and perform a sketch on relevant themes and values such as honesty, hard work, patriotism
    • Write and produce plays using the skills acquired.
Knowing Your Poetic Elements
  • Apply the skills gained to analyse varied forms of narrative poetry with increasing difficulties for meaning and effect
    • Analyse different forms of narrative poems (Epics, Ballads, Idyll, lay) with increasing difficulties for meaning and effect
    • Distinguish between the features of narrative poems and lyrical poems in context
Appreciation
  • Analyse poems to unpack meanings to reflect diverse contexts and issues.
    • Interpret poems in context beyond literal meanings to show deeper connections
    • Discuss the dominant theme in a poem and analyze in detail how it develops throughout the poem
  • Analyze poems presenting personal response and textual evidence, using PEE approach
    • Using the Point, Evidence, Explanation (PEE) format, quote and discuss strong and exhaustive textual evidence to support a personal analysis of simple short poems.
    • Focus on the process of Reflective Learning for literary appreciation.(Keep Journals)
From Verse to Performance
  • Adapt and reconstruct existing poetic pieces through pastiches and performances.
    • Perform parts of selected poems
    • Reconstruct a poem into another creative expression (song, painting, parodies)
    • Create short poems

Year 2

9 topics
Knowing Your Elements
  • Establish meaning by exploring a variety of non-fiction prose texts.
    • Examine the structure of fiction and nonfiction texts
    • Compare the elements of fiction and non-fiction
  • Analyse the author's use of themes and style to create works.
    • Discuss the development of themes throughout the selected prose texts
    • Discuss the development of style in the selected prose texts.
    • Discuss how authors use style to bring out themes in their works.
    • Discuss authors' use of theme and style in creating non-fictional texts.
Appreciation
  • Apply the knowledge of themes and style in interpreting the selected texts.
    • Examine more themes in novels through the major incidents and related ideas
    • Examine the overall impact of the author's narrative devices and the effect on meaning
  • Apply knowledge of elements of prose in critiquing narrative/prose texts.
    • Discuss the steps of critiquing prose texts using strong and exhaustive textual evidence from both explicit and inferential material
    • Develop complete essays based on the critique done on the prose texts.
From Narrative to Craft
  • Make adaptations of existing works and write novels by applying the narrative writing skills.
    • Produce summaries of some selected novels based on varied themes.
    • Produce narrative pieces applying different styles
    • Apply the narrative writing skills to edit and review short stories created
Knowing Your Dramatic Elements
  • Use the knowledge in forms of drama in exploring varied drama texts.
    • Identify the forms in varied drama texts
    • Distinguish between the forms of drama
    • Examine how the forms are developed in varied texts
Appreciation
  • Use the dramatic tools to appreciate varied drama texts.
    • Identify and explain themes, style and language in drama texts
    • Explain how themes, style and language are developed to bring out the main concerns of drama texts
    • Analyse the use of dramatic devices in varied level appropriate drama texts.
    • Appreciate drama texts that reflect diverse context and concerns
From Script to Stage
  • Apply the knowledge gained in appreciating drama texts to script, edit and perform drama pieces.
    • Write a drama piece on varied themes depicting real world events
    • Perform parts/full Acts and scenes.
Knowing Your Poetic Elements
  • Examine the forms of lyrical poetry with increasing difficulties for meaning, effect and pleasure.
    • Explore the different forms of lyrical poems (Elegy, Ode, Sonnet, Haiku) using interesting level appropriate examples for pleasure.
    • Distinguish between the features of lyrical poems in context.
    • Compare and contrast the use of language in lyrical poetry to bring out its beauty(aesthetic value)
  • Analyse the use of stylistic devices and how they contribute to the meaning of lyrical poems.
    • Discuss how these elements of style in poems (form, literary devices, diction, tone, mood, imagery etc.) contribute to meaning
    • Analyse the aesthetic qualities of these elements (form, literary devices, diction, tone, mood, imagery) use in a poem to achieve certain effects
    • Compare and contrast how different poets experiment with the different poetic devices
Appreciation
  • Identify and compare multiple meanings, central ideas/themes and use them in writing essays on poems through different perspectives.
    • Discuss the dominant themes in the selected poems
    • Analyse in detail how themes develop throughout the poems.
    • Examine the overall impact of the poet's specific word choices on meaning and themes in relation to other poetic elements such as imagery, tone, mood, and words with multiple meaning
  • Analyse poems presenting personal responses and textual evidence using PEE Approach.
    • Review literary devices and poetic elements in selected poems.
    • Use the knowledge on poetic elements and devices to critique a poem and write out complete essay by citing strong and exhaustive textual evidence
From Verse to Performance
  • Apply the skills in poetic elements and devices in creating stanzas of poems and perform them.
    • Create a stanza of a poem using a simple template as a guide.
    • Edit and perform the poem created in class.

Year 3

9 topics
Knowing Your Elements
  • Apply the knowledge of the elements of prose in interpreting varied texts.
    • Discuss the significance of contexts of texts in shaping the texts' main concerns.
    • Analyse the elements of prose useful in comparing/contrasting characters
Appreciation
  • Use the knowledge of elements and literary devices in analysing selected texts.
    • Examine and articulate main themes in prescribed texts.
    • Analyse aspects of plot and their effect on readers.
    • Examine the significance of some of the literary devices in appreciating their prescribed text
    • Examine the characterisation techniques of the writer.
    • Develop essays on the critique done on fictional and non-fictional texts.
    • Apply knowledge of elements of prose and literary devices in critiquing varied prose texts
  • Communicate personal and critical responses to narratives through different perspectives.
    • Examine and articulate main themes in prescribed texts.
    • Analyse aspects of plot and their effect on readers.
    • Examine the significance of some of the literary devices in appreciating their prescribed text
    • Examine the characterisation techniques of the writer.
    • Develop essays on the critique done on fictional and non-fictional texts.
    • Apply knowledge of elements of prose and literary devices in critiquing varied prose texts
From Narrative to Craft
  • Create, construct and communicate clear, organised and coherent arguments, essays and fictional narratives.
    • Draft and organise arguments with the support of textual evidence for writing or speaking
    • Use the PEE approach to develop and organise examination style essays
    • Apply their knowledge of appropriate metalanguage and prose-specific conventions to review or create their own narrative pieces
Knowing Your Dramatic Elements
  • Use knowledge in forms of drama in analysing varied texts
    • Discuss the connection between dramatic forms and themes
    • Compare and contrast the different dramatic forms in varied texts
Appreciation
  • Use dramatic tools in appreciating varied dramatic texts
    • Appreciate drama texts for their empathetic effects using the dramatic tools.
    • Use tools of appreciation and dramatic elements in analysing varied texts
    • Critique selected speeches of selected characters and how they influence the development of the plot
    • Appreciate varied drama texts for their empathetic effects
From Script to Stage
  • Create and convert drama pieces/scripts for performance.
    • Use the skills acquired to create drama pieces
    • Convert drama pieces into stories
    • Perform the drama pieces created
Knowing Your Poetic Elements
  • Use the elements of poetry in analyzing different types of poems
    • Review the elements of poetry
    • Discuss the use of elements of poetry in varied selected poems
    • Compare and contrast how different poets use the elements to create meaning
Appreciation
  • Use knowledge and understanding of multiple meanings, central ideas, themes, language and elements of poetry in critiquing varied poems.
    • Discuss how writers explore the elements in making meaning in their works
    • Compare how different authors create multiple meanings using the poetic elements in same poetic forms
    • Compare how different authors create multiple meanings using poetic elements in different poetic forms.
    • Critique the works of different authors using the skills gained.
From Verse to Performance
  • Use multiple meanings, central ideas/themes, and poetic elements in creating varied poems for performance.
    • Create poems of varied lengths on diverse issues
    • Perform the poems created through diverse modes
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