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 11 key words:character dramatic technique essay questions plot and structure poetic form Shakespeare the novel theme tone and mood unseen passages

302 prompts matching "Background research on the poet, presented in a short oral summary"

Teach me: The two poets' handling of celebration and loss in a single written comparison, compared

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Literature-in-English

Teach me: The two poets' handling of celebration and loss in a single written comparison, compared

Teach me: The poetic devices at work, including metaphor, personification, contrast and sound patterning

Spot my mistake: The poetic devices of each poem, including Heaney's consonantal sound patterning

Spot my mistake: GCSE English Literature poetry comparison is marked on the same principle

Teach me: How a single poem's form contributes to its meaning, without reference to the poet's biography

WAEC prep: Writing a comparison paragraph of at least 200 words on how the two poets use natural imagery

Practice set: How the poet conveys divided feelings about language, in a 20-minute response

Real-life Nigeria: Reformation background and the legal meaning of More's silence, held to fifteen minutes

Practice set: Timed poetry essay of 40 minutes on one poem selected by the student

Teach me: The poetic devices in each text, including refrain

Let me explain: The background and setting of Niyi Osundare's 'Not My Business'

Quiz: The background of Fleur Adcock and Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

Spot my mistake: The structure, rhyme scheme and use of rhyme in each poem, using standard notation such as ABAB

Quiz: Interpreting the themes of survival, deception, parental ambition and communal judgement

Teach me: The presentation of survival in Path of Lucas with that in Redemption Road, compared

Quiz: Introduce Pede Hollist and summarise the movement of So the Path Does Not Die from Sierra Leone

Teach me: The treatment of self and environment in 'Night' with 'New Tongue', compared

Project task: Paired planning: students convert their annotations into a four-paragraph plan

Practice set: Writing one developed paragraph of at least 200 words on the effect of the poem's language

Teach me: The prose extract rewards attention to narrative method above plot retelling