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Ms LJT has 19 years of Literature tuition experience. She was an MOE contract teacher for 2 years. Ms LJT has Master’s in Linguistics from NUS, and a Bachelor’s in English and English Literature from NUS (2nd Upper Class Honours). Ms LJT’s Literature tuition students attended Crescent Girls’ School, Anglo-Chinese School (Independent), CHIJ St Theresa’s Convent, Eunoia Junior College, Hwa Chong Institution, and Victoria Junior College.
Mr YWB has 11 years of Literature tuition experience. He has a Bachelor’s in Literature from NUS. He taught at a tuition centre for 5 years. Mr YWB’s Literature tuition students attended Bartley Secondary School, CHIJ St Nicholas Girls’ School, New Town Secondary School, Riverside Secondary School, Catholic Junior College
Mr DA has 12 years of Literature tuition experience. He has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Cornell University, and a Bachelor’s in Literature from NUS (First Class Honours). His Literature tuition students attended Catholic High School, Anglican High School, Cedar Girls’ Secondary School, Jurong Pioneer Junior College, River Valley High School, and Anglo-Chinese Junior College.
Mr SN has 8 years of Literature private tuition experience. He has a Bachelor’s in English language and English Literature from NUS (First Class Honours). Mr SN wrote the Literature curriculum taught at secondary school level and at JC level for the tuition centre where he taught for 6 years. His private tuition students attended Crescent Girls’ School, Methodist Girls’ School (Secondary), Montfort Secondary School, Nanyang Junior College, Hwa Chong Institution, and Victoria Junior College.
Ms KL has 9 years of Literature private tuition experience. She has a Bachelor’s in Literature from NTU. Ms KL taught at a tuition centre for 2 years. Her private tuition students attended Kuo Chuan Presbyterian Secondary School, Hwa Chong Institution (Integrated Programme), East View Secondary School, Anderson Serangoon Junior College, National Junior College, and Tampines Meridian Junior College.
Ms YRH has 13 years of Literature private tuition experience. She is NIE-trained and taught at a junior college for 7 years. Ms YRH has a Bachelor’s from NUS, majoring in English Literature (Honours). Her private tuition students attended National Junior College, Raffles Institution, Catholic Junior College, Anglo-Chinese Junior College, Temasek Junior College, and St. Andrew’s Junior College.
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Mr YBR has 10 years of Literature private tuition experience. He has a Bachelor’s from NTU in Literature (Honours). He taught at tuition centres for 4 years and was an MOE relief teacher for 2 years. Mr YBR’s private tuition students attended St. Margaret’s Secondary School, Yuan Ching Secondary School, Victoria School (Integrated Programme), Deyi Secondary School, Anderson Serangoon Junior College, Catholic Junior College, and River Valley High School.
Ms SHH has 9 years of Literature private tuition experience. She has a Bachelor’s in Literature from NTU (Honours). Her private tuition students attended Seng Kang Secondary School, Ahmad Ibrahim Secondary School, Anglo-Chinese School (Independent), Yishun Innova Junior College, Jurong Pioneer Junior College, and River Valley High School.
Mr NM has 7 years of Literature private tuition experience. He has a Bachelor’s in Literature from NTU. Mr NM was an MOE contract teacher for 1 year. His private tuition students attended Dunman High School, Crescent Girls’ School, Christ Church Secondary School, Ping Yi Secondary School, Ngee Ann Secondary School, and Singapore Chinese Girls’ School.
Ms KLH has 9 years of Literature private tuition experience. She has a Bachelor’s in Literature from NUS (Honours). Ms KLH wrote the O Level and A Level Literature curriculum for a major group of tuition centres. Her private tuition students attended Fairfield Methodist School (Secondary), Raffles Girls’ School (Secondary), St. Hilda’s Secondary School, National Junior College, St. Andrew’s Junior College, and Hwa Chong Institution.
Mr JY has 8 years of Literature private tuition experience. He has a Master’s in British literature from Fordham University (New York, NY). Mr JY has a Bachelor’s in Literature from NUS (Honours). He taught at a leading tuition centre for 6 years. Mr CN’s private tuition students attended St. Anthony’s Canossian Secondary School, Victoria Junior College, Anglo-Chinese Junior College, National Junior College, Dunman High School, and Eunoia Junior College.
Ms WFH has 14 years of Literature private tuition experience. She is NIE-trained and taught at MOE schools for 7 years. Ms WFH’s Bachelor’s in Literature was from NUS. Her students attended Maris Stella High School, CHIJ Secondary (Toa Payoh), National Junior College (Integrated Programme), Raffles Girls’ School (Secondary), St. Andrew’s Secondary School, and St. Joseph’s Institution.
Ms HCE has 7 years of Literature private tuition experience. She has a Master’s in Comparative Literature from Cornell University. Ms HCE’s Bachelor’s in Literature was from NUS (First Class Honours). Ms HCE’s private tuition students attended Catholic Junior College, National Junior College, Raffles Institution, Tampines Meridian Junior College, St. Andrew’s Junior College, and Raffles Institution.
Mr SYW has 13 years of Literature private tuition experience. He has a Bachelor’s in Literature from NUS (Honours). Mr SYW taught at tuition centres for 5 years. His private tuition students attended Woodlands Secondary School, Temasek Junior College (Integrated Programme), St. Joseph’s Institution, Jurong Pioneer Junior College, River Valley High School, and Hwa Chong Institution.
Ms LJR has 12 years of Literature private tuition experience. She has a PhD in Linguistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Her Bachelor’s was from NUS, in Literature (First Class Honours). Ms LJR’s private tuition students attended CHIJ St Nicholas Girls’ School, Cedar Girls’ Secondary School, Methodist Girls’ School (Secondary), Hwa Chong Institution, Eunoia Junior College, and Anglo-Chinese Junior College.
Ms BC has 9 years of Literature private tuition experience. She is NIE-trained and taught at an MOE school for 8 years. Ms BC has a Bachelor’s in Literature from NUS. Her private tuition students attended Bedok View Secondary School, Hong Kah Secondary School, Maris Stella High School, Singapore Chinese Girls’ School, Tanjong Katong Girls’ School, and Zhonghua Secondary School.
Mr DJY has 11 years of Literature private tuition experience. He has a Bachelor’s from NTU, majoring in Literature (Honours). Mr DJY taught at a tuition centre for 2 years. His private tuition students attended Greenridge Secondary School, Methodist Girls’ School (Secondary), Pasir Ris Secondary School, Yishun Innova Junior College, Anglo-Chinese Junior College, and Nanyang Junior College.
Mr YA has 7 years of Literature private tuition experience. He has a Bachelor’s in Literature from NTU. Mr YA was an MOE contract teacher for 2 years. His private tuition students attended Chong Boon Secondary School, Hai Seng Secondary School, Montfort Secondary School, Nanyang Junior College, Tampines Meridian Junior College, and St. Andrew’s Junior College.
Ms GHY has 15 years of Literature private tuition experience. She has a Bachelor’s in Literature from NUS (2nd Upper Class Honours). Ms GHY’s private tuition students attended Victoria School (Integrated Programme), St. Patrick’s School, Punggol Secondary School, New Town Secondary School, Catholic Junior College, and River Valley High School.
Mr HRN has 6 years of Literature private tuition experience. He has a Bachelor’s in Literature from NTU. His private tuition students attended Ang Mo Kio Secondary School, Bowen Secondary School, Jurong Pioneer Junior College, Dunman High School, Tampines Meridian Junior College, and St. Andrew’s Junior College.
Mr YYJ has 18 years of Literature private tuition experience. He has a Bachelor’s in Literature from NUS (2nd Upper Class Honours). Mr YYJ was the Head of Literature at the group of tuition centres that he taught at for 5 years. Mr AL’s private tuition students attended St. Margaret’s Secondary School, Serangoon Secondary School, Nan Hua High School, Eunoia Junior College, Temasek Junior College, and Anderson Serangoon Junior College.
Ms OSL has 5 years of Literature tuition experience. She has a Bachelor’s in Literature from NTU. Her Literature tuition students attended St. Hilda’s Secondary School, Teck Whye Secondary School, Whitley Secondary School, Tanjong Katong Girls’ School, St. Patrick’s School, and Queenstown Secondary School.
Ms CHT has 14 years of Literature tuition experience. She is NIE-trained and taught at a junior college for 7 years. Ms CHT has a Bachelor’s in Literature from NUS (Honours). Her Literature tuition students attended Eunoia Junior College, Hwa Chong Institution, St. Andrew’s Junior College, Tampines Meridian Junior College, Anderson Serangoon Junior College, and Jurong Pioneer Junior College.
Ms WPL has 9 years of Literature tuition experience. She has a Bachelor’s in Literature, from NTU. Her Literature tuition students attended Hai Seng Secondary School, Dunman Secondary School, Crescent Girls’ School, CHIJ St Theresa’s Convent, Ahmad Ibrahim Secondary School, and Bishan Park Secondary School.
Mr EHJ has 10 years of Literature tuition experience. He has a Bachelor’s in Literature from NUS (Honours). Mr EHJ taught at tuition centres for 6 years. His Literature tuition students attended Nanyang Girls’ High School, Paya Lebar Methodist Girls’ School (Secondary), Nan Hua High School, St. Andrew’s Junior College, Catholic Junior College, and Jurong Pioneer Junior College.
Ms LHK has 9 years of Literature tuition experience. She has a PhD from Stanford University in Linguistics. Her Bachelor’s in Literature was from NUS (First Class Honours). Ms LHK’s Literature tuition students attended Cedar Girls’ Secondary School, Anglo-Chinese School (Independent), Catholic High School, Hwa Chong Institution, St. Andrew’s Junior College, and Victoria Junior College.
Ms GJL has 5 years of Literature tuition experience. She has a Master’s in Literary Studies from NTU. Her Bachelor’s in Literature was from NUS (Honours). Ms GJL’s Literature tuition students attended St. Margaret’s Secondary School, River Valley High School, Outram Secondary School, Hwa Chong Institution, Temasek Junior College, and St. Andrew’s Junior College.
Mr WHC has 8 years of Literature tuition experience. He has a Bachelor’s in Literature from NUS. Mr WHC’s Literature tuition students attended Swiss Cottage Secondary School, Presbyterian High School, Nanyang Girls’ High School, Catholic Junior College, River Valley High School, and Temasek Junior College.
Ms HRS has 7 years of Literature tuition experience. She has a Bachelor’s in Literature from NUS. Ms HRS’s Literature tuition students attended Yuying Secondary School, Kranji Secondary School, Raffles Girls’ School (Secondary), National Junior College, Tampines Meridian Junior College, and Eunoia Junior College.
Ms GMY has 9 years of Literature tuition experience. She has a Master’s and Bachelor’s (2nd Upper Class Honours) in Literature from NUS. She taught at a top tuition centre for 5 years. Ms GMY’s Literature tuition students attended Hong Kah Secondary School, National Junior College (Integrated Programme), Northbrooks Secondary School, St. Andrew’s Junior College, Nanyang Junior College, and Anderson Serangoon Junior College.
Ms TRH has 13 years of Literature tuition experience. She has a Bachelor’s in Literature from NTU. Ms TRH was an MOE contract teacher for 2 years. Her Literature tuition students attended Hwa Chong Institution (Integrated Programme), Fuhua Secondary School, Fajar Secondary School, Jurong Pioneer Junior College, Anderson Serangoon Junior College, and National Junior College.
Mr WY has 10 years of Literature tuition experience. He has a Bachelor’s in Literature from NUS. Mr WY’s Literature tuition students attended Beatty Secondary School, CHIJ Katong Convent, Crescent Girls’ School, Anglo-Chinese Junior College, National Junior College, and Yishun Innova Junior College.
Mr BN has 18 years of Literature tuition experience. He is NIE-trained and taught at an MOE school for 4 years. Mr BN has a Bachelor’s in Literature from NUS (Honours). His Literature tuition students attended Peirce Secondary School, Nanyang Girls’ High School, Methodist Girls’ School (Secondary), Loyang Secondary School, Greenridge Secondary School, and First Toa Payoh Secondary School.
Mr TSD has 7 years of Literature tuition experience. He has a Bachelor’s in Literature from NUS. His Literature tuition students attended Maris Stella High School, Nanyang Girls’ High School, Jurongville Secondary School, Yishun Innova Junior College, Catholic Junior College, and Raffles Institution.
Ms SHR has 8 years of Literature tuition experience. She has a PhD in Applied Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. Ms SHR has a Bachelor’s in Literature from NUS (2nd Upper Class Honours). She was an MOE contract teacher for 4 years. Her Literature tuition students attended Holy Innocents’ High School, CHIJ St Nicholas Girls’ School, Dunman High School, Hwa Chong Institution (Integrated Programme), Anglo-Chinese Junior College, and Raffles Institution.
Mr FJW has 8 years of Literature tuition experience. He has a Bachelor’s in Literature from NTU. Mr FJW’s Literature tuition students attended Evergreen Secondary School, Commonwealth Secondary School, Fairfield Methodist School (Secondary), National Junior College, Eunoia Junior College, and Tampines Meridian Junior College.
Mr EJE has 8 years of Literature tuition experience. Mr EJE was an MOE contract teacher for 2 years. He has a Bachelor’s in Literature from NUS (First Class Honours). His Literature tuition students attended Anderson Serangoon Junior College, Dunman High School, Nanyang Junior College, Temasek Junior College, Yishun Innova Junior College, and Raffles Institution.
Ms GHM has 3 years of Literature tuition experience. She has a Bachelor’s in Literature from NTU (2nd Upper Class Honours). Ms GHM taught at a tuition centre for 2 years. Her Literature tuition students attended Regent Secondary School, Hong Kah Secondary School, Maris Stella High School, Fairfield Methodist School (Secondary), Anderson Serangoon Junior College, and St. Andrew’s Junior College.
Mr SJB has 9 years of Literature tuition experience. He has a Bachelor’s in Literature from NUS. Mr SJB taught at a leading tuition centre for 3 years. His Literature tuition students attended Montfort Secondary School, Greendale Secondary School, Crescent Girls’ School, St. Joseph’s Institution, Seng Kang Secondary School, and Yuying Secondary School.
Ms AWC has 7 years of Literature tuition experience. She has a Bachelor’s in Literature from NUS (Honours). Ms AWC was an MOE contract teacher for 2 years. Her Literature tuition students attended Yishun Town Secondary School, Temasek Junior College (Integrated Programme), St. Hilda’s Secondary School, Tanjong Katong Girls’ School, St. Gabriel’s Secondary School, and Damai Secondary School.
Ms KYR has 11 years of Literature tuition experience. She is NIE-trained, and taught at MOE schools for 7 years. Ms KYR has a Bachelor’s in Literature from NUS (Honours). Her Literature tuition students attended Fuchun Secondary School, Cedar Girls’ Secondary School, Anglican High School, Methodist Girls’ School (Secondary), Marsiling Secondary School, and North View Secondary School.
Ms SS has 10 years of Literature tuition experience. She has a Bachelor’s in Literature from NUS (Honours). Her Literature tuition students attended Mayflower Secondary School, Orchid Park Secondary School, Raffles Girls’ School (Secondary), Anglo-Chinese Junior College, Victoria Junior College, and Nanyang Junior College.
Ms OYL has 9 years of Literature tuition experience. She has a Bachelor’s from NTU, majoring in Literature. Ms OYL’s Literature tuition students attended Loyang Secondary School, Compassvale Secondary School, Anglo-Chinese School (Independent), Eunoia Junior College, Victoria Junior College, and Jurong Pioneer Junior College.
Ms ST has 12 years of Literature tuition experience. She is NIE trained and taught at MOE schools for 5 years. Ms ST has a Bachelor’s in English and English Literature from NTU (2nd Upper Class Honours). Her Literature tuition students attended Maris Stella High School, CHIJ St Nicholas Girls’ School, Nan Chiau High School, Raffles Girls’ School (Secondary) Integrated Programme, Singapore Chinese Girls’ Secondary School Integrated Programme, and Victoria School Integrated Programme.
Mr HMR has 6 years of Literature tuition experience. He has a Bachelor’s in Literature from NTU (First Class Honours). Mr HMR was an MOE contract teacher for 1 year. His Literature tuition students attended Guangyang Secondary School, Fairfield Methodist School (Secondary), Coral Secondary School, CHIJ St Joseph’s Convent, Xinmin Secondary School, and Temasek Secondary School.
Important content and skills required by MOE for the Literature exams:
- Demonstrate, through close analysis, knowledge of the literary texts studied
- Respond with knowledge and understanding to literary texts from the genres of prose, poetry and drama
- Demonstrate understanding of the ways in which writers’ choices of form, structure and language shape meanings
- Communicate a sensitive and informed personal response to what is read; Express responses clearly and coherently, using textual evidence where appropriate
Literature - How To Score Higher Marks
- The Assessment Objectives are inter-related. Candidates’ responses will be assessed holistically on the attainment of these Assessment Objectives in an integrated and meaningful way
- Raise awareness of timeless issues concerning society
- Promote the appreciation of multiple perspectives; and Build empathy and global awareness
- Promote heightened appreciation of nuances of language
- Sensitise students to artistic decisions made by writers
- Demonstrate understanding of the ways in which writers’ choices of form, structure and language shape meanings
- Express responses clearly and coherently, using textual evidence where appropriate
- Develop greater acceptance for ambiguity and open-endedness
- Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451
- Kiran Desai: Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
- Philip Holden (ed.): Hook and Eye: Stories from the Margins
- Critically analyse and evaluate literary texts
- Appreciate and make informed personal responses to literary texts
- Communicate ideas effectively and persuasively
- Negotiate complexities and ambiguities, being aware of diverse perspectives
- The relationship between texts and their cultural contexts
- The ability to read texts independently
- A love for reading literature.
- Test the candidate’s ability to critically compare and evaluate unseen texts and the set texts they have studied with regard to the elective papers
- Ability to identify, compare and critically assess key features of each text
- Appropriate reference to the literary features of the period or topic covered by the paper
- The candidate must organise and present information, ideas and arguments clearly and effectively
- Grammar, punctuation, and spelling will also be taken into account
- The texts are literary explorations of the world of 16th and early 17th century England
- Ben Jonson: selected poems
- Andrew Marvell: selected poems
- Sir Philip Sidney: selected sonnets from ‘Astrophil and Stella’
- Francis Bacon: selected prose
- Thomas Nashe: The Unfortunate Traveller
- Thomas Kyd: The Spanish Tragedy
- Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus
- Thomas Middleton: Women Beware Women
- William Shakespeare: The Tempest
- Explore the relationship between the mind and self as represented in Literature
- Examining the means by which writers offer insight into how consciousness is linked to identity, individuality and social contexts
- Underscores various forms of revelation and discovery
- William Shakespeare: Hamlet
- The definition of a genre, the individual form of the text and its stylistic features
- An appreciation of how the texts studied relate to the contexts in which they were created, including social, cultural and historical contexts
- Exploration of the ideologies and assumptions in the texts
- The events and ideas that predominated during the period in which these texts were created
- Elements of style, such as register, figurative language, rhythm and language patterns
- The effects of the use of language to create meaning by writers from the word level right through to discourse levels
- Make informed personal and critical responses to the texts and account for their responses
- Understand and comment on the ways in which the historical and cultural backgrounds of text and author inform the meaning of the text
- Reflect critically on the development of their own informed response
- Comment on the ways in which both content and form shape the reader’s response
- Demonstrate knowledge of ways in which a text invites the reader to respond
- Key social, cultural and historical influences in the creation of texts
- Understand the elements of literary genres
- Analyse stylistic devices including voice, persona, symbolism, irony, mood and tone
- Analyse the use of language including register, diction, tone, imagery, rhythm in a text
- Recognise imaginative or dramatic techniques for creating effects
- Present a sustained interpretation supported by appropriate and detailed references to the text(s)
- Ben Jonson: selected poems
- Epigrams – II To My Book
- Epigrams – XIV To William Camden
- Epigrams – XXII On My First Daughter
- Epigrams – XXIII To John Donne
- Epigrams – XXVIII On Don Surly
- Epigrams – XLII On Giles and Joan
- Epigrams – XLV On My First Son
- Epigrams – LXV To My Muse
- Epigrams – LXXVI On Lucy, Countess of Bedford
- Sonnet 17 ‘His mother dear Cupid offended late’
- Sonnet 18 ‘With what sharp checks I in myself am shent’
- Sonnet 19 ‘On Cupid’s bow how are my heart-strings bent’
- Sonnet 20 ‘Fly, fly, my friends, I have my death wound, fly’
- Sonnet 21 ‘Your words, my friend, right healthful caustics, blame’
- Sonnet 22 ‘In highest way of heaven the sun did ride’
- Sonnet 23 ‘The curious wits, seeing dull pensiveness’
- Sonnet 24 ‘Rich fools there be, whose base and filthy heart’
- Sonnet 25 ‘The wisest scholar of the wight most wise’
- Sonnet 26 ‘Though dusty wits dare scorn astrology’
- Sonnet 27 ‘Because I oft, in dark abstracted guise’
- Sonnet 28 ‘You that with allegory’s curious frame’
- Sonnet 29 ‘Like some weak lords, neighboured by mighty kings’
- Sonnet 30 ‘Whether the Turkish new moon minded be’
- Sonnet 31 ‘With how sad steps, O moon, thou climb’st the skies’
- Francis Bacon: selected prose
- The Advancement of Learning (Book 1)
- New Atlantis
- Essays (1625):
- ‘Of Truth’
- ‘Of Death’
- ‘Of Simulation and Dissimulation’
- ‘Of Marriage and Single Life’
- ‘Of Love’
- ‘Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature’
- ‘Of Nobility’
- ‘Of Discourse’
- The Mower against Gardens
- Damon the Mower
- The Mower to the Glowworms
- The Mower’s Song
- The Garden
- An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland
- Upon the Hill and Grove at Bilbrough
- Sir Philip Sidney: selected sonnets from ‘Astrophil and Stella’
- Sonnet 1 ‘Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show’
- Sonnet 2 ‘Not at first sight, nor with a dribbed shot’
- Sonnet 3 ‘Let dainty wits cry on the sisters nine’
- Sonnet 4 ‘Virtue, alas, now let me take some rest’
- Sonnet 5 ‘It is most true, that eyes are formed to serve’
- Cultivate metacognitive habits of mind as students pay attention to the impact of language on one’s thoughts and feelings
- Equip students with the skills to convince others of their interpretations, based on sound reasoning with evidence
- Demonstrate, through close analysis, knowledge of the literary texts studied
- Respond with knowledge and understanding to literary texts from the genres of prose, poetry and drama
- Dalene Matthee: Fiela’s Child
- Ngugi wa Thiong’o: The River Between
- Elizabeth Wein: Code Name Verity
- Lillian Hellman: The Little Foxes
- Arthur Miller: A View from the Bridge
- William Shakespeare: Macbeth
- Haresh Sharma: Off Centre
- Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie
- Make informed personal and critical responses to the texts, exploring connections between texts where appropriate, and account for their responses
- Demonstrate how the literary context of the text informs their understanding of the text
- Critically analyse and evaluate ways in which writers’ choices of form, structure and language shape meanings
- Clearly communicate the knowledge, understanding and insights appropriate to literary study
- To test the candidate’s ability to respond to either an unseen text extract, or a passage from a set text
- Demonstrate the ability to analyse both the formal and stylistic features of the extract
- Test the candidate’s ability to write a critical analysis of the set texts they have studied
- Demonstrate an ability to make an informed personal and critical response to the text as a whole
- Respond to and critically compare two unseen poems
- At least one of the questions will feature a Singaporean poem
- The English Renaissance (1509–1660)
- The Renaissance period was one of ‘rebirth’ of classical ideas and art forms, characterised by the influence of the classics in literature, language, and philosophy, as well as the development of new ideas and art forms
- The Literature that developed during this period was, amongst other things, an artistic engagement with many changes in society such as an increase
- in literacy and the abandonment of a feudal system, and their impact on morality and identity
- Sylvia Plath: Ariel
- Elizabeth Jennings: selected poems
- William Wordsworth: The Prelude, Book One & Book Two (1805 version)
- James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- J M Coetzee: Age of Iron
- Pat Barker: Regeneration
- Alan Ayckbourn: Woman in Mind
- Edward Albee: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- How texts relate to movements in artistic creation at a particular point in time
- The study of literary forms
- A sonnet written by a Romantic poet to have an understanding of the general features of the Romantic movement as well as knowledge of how the sonnet form has developed in Literature in English up to that point
- Proficiency in the use of the English language in both a functional and literary sense
- Language use at the grammatical, lexical and structural levels
- Analyse and evaluate critically the ways in which writers’ choices of form, structure and language shape meanings
- Communicate clearly knowledge, understanding and insights appropriate to literary study
- Develop an informed personal response
- Make connections between their own ideas and experiences and those in the text
- How characters, viewpoints, and situations convey the social conventions, beliefs and attitudes of individuals and groups in a particular society
- Identify and interpret the ideas, viewpoints and values expressed in a text
- Understand literary influences and traditions and the notion of reader, text and author
- Analyse literary form including structure, setting, character, conflict, plot, methods of characterization, themes
- Present an evaluative/critical comparison and make connections between two or more texts
- Write effective literary essays to convey their knowledge and understanding of, and insight into the texts
- Use appropriate literary terms in their responses
- Present a clear and coherent argument in support of their ideas
- Epigrams – XCI To Sir Horace Vere
- Epigrams – XCIV To Lucy, Countess of Bedford, with Mr Donne’s Satires
- Epigrams – XCVI To John Donne
- Epigrams – CI Inviting a Friend to Supper
- The Forest – II To Penshurst
- The Forest – IV To the World
- The Forest – V Song. To Celia
- The Forest – VII Song. That Women are but Men’s Shadows
- The Forest – VIII To Sickness
- The Forest – IX Song. To Celia
- The Forest – XV To Heaven
- Underwoods – V In the Person of Womankind
- Underwoods – VI Another. In Defence of Their Inconstancy. A Song
- Underwoods – VII A Nymph’s Passion
- Underwoods – XVII Epistle to a Friend
- Underwoods – XVIII An Elegy
- Underwoods – XXIII An Ode. To Himself
- Underwoods – XXVIII A Sonnet, to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth
- Underwoods – XXIX A Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme
- Underwoods – XLI An Elegy
- Miscellaneous – XV To the Memory of my Beloved, the Author Mr William Shakespeare: And What He Hath Left Us
- Andrew Marvell: selected poems
- A Dialogue, between the Resolved Soul and Created Pleasure
- On a Drop of Dew
- The Coronet
- Eyes and Tears
- Bermudas
- A Dialogue between the Soul and Body
- The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn
- Young Love
- To his Coy Mistress
- The Unfortunate Lover
- The Gallery
- The Fair Singer
- The Definition of Love
- The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers
- Sonnet 6 ‘Some lovers speak, when they their muses entertain’
- Sonnet 7 ‘When nature made her chief work, Stella’s eyes’
- Sonnet 8 ‘Love, born in Greece, of late fled from his native place’
- Sonnet 9 ‘Queen Virtue’s court, which some call Stella’s face’
- Sonnet 10 ‘Reason, in faith thou art well served, that still’
- Sonnet 11 ‘In truth, O Love, with what a boyish kind’
- Sonnet 12 ‘Cupid, because thou shin’st in Stella’s eyes’
- Sonnet 13 ‘Phoebus was judge between Jove, Mars and Love’
- Sonnet 14 ‘Alas, have I not pain enough, my friend’
- Sonnet 15 ‘You that do search for every purling spring’
- Sonnet 16 ‘In nature apt to like, when I did see’
