Literature-in-English

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More than one set-text list, on purpose

WAEC, NECO and NERDC prescribe set texts that change from session to session, and schools do not all follow the same list in the same year. So this subject covers several — Harvest of Corruption, Faceless, To Kill a Mockingbird, So the Path Does Not Die, Once Upon an Elephant, An Inspector Calls, Redemption Road and The Marriage of Anansewa among the plays and novels, with the prescribed poems alongside them. Work to the list your school is teaching this session and ignore the rest: meeting a text here is not a sign that it is on your paper. Use the year filter and the topic chips to find yours, and check your school's current list if you are not sure.

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Year 10 key words:character dramatic technique essay questions literary devices plot and structure poetic form the novel the short story tone and mood tragedy and comedy unseen passages

332 prompts matching "Okara's Once Upon a Time and the loss of sincerity"

Teach me: Detailed knowledge of the text and support points with reference to it

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Be my SS1 Literature-in-English teacher for this one point: detailed knowledge of the text

Literature-in-English

Teach me: Detailed knowledge of the text and support points with reference to it

Let me explain: The subject matter and narrative of the poem in the pupils’ own words

Spot my mistake: The structure of the poem — its narrative movement, stanza organisation and verse form

Practice set: Annotation of the poem for imagery and symbolism, working in pairs

WAEC prep: Naming and explains at least five features of style with their effects

Let me explain: The structure of the poem, including its use of questions, repetition and refrain

Practice set: Choral reading of the poem to bring out its rhetorical questions and repetition

Let me explain: The two poems of the term in theme, form and tone, compared

WAEC prep: Timed essays meet the mark scheme for reference, analysis and structure

Spot my mistake: An account of the author’s background and the context in which the novel was written

Teach me: The setting of the novel — place, period and social conditions — and its importance to the story

Project task: Guided reading of the opening chapters with a setting-and-atmosphere log

Practice set: Discussion of how the opening establishes place and mood

Teach me: Tracing the introduction of the principal characters and the central problem

Spot my mistake: The principal characters and the methods of characterisation used

Teach me: Comment on the author’s narrative technique, diction and use of dialogue

Real-life Nigeria: Annotation of the poem for imagery and symbolism, particularly images drawn from nature

Spot my mistake: An account of the poet’s background and place in Nigerian literature

Essay practice: consolidating So the Path Does Not Die and the poems studied

Conflict In Once Upon An Elephant