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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Exam Information for New (and returning!) Students

The official stuff:







Literature syllabus


IGCSE Literature Presentation


Sample past papers from a previous syllabus



IGCSE ESSAY WRITING TECHNIQUE


OUR specific  syllabus:


Paper 4
Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller; Penguin Classics
The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald; Penguin Classics
Poetry anthology: Songs of Ourselves from Part 3 (Poems from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries): Poems
96 to 109 inclusive, i.e. the following fourteen poems:
Thomas Hardy, ‘The Voice’
Allen Curnow, ‘Time’
Mathew Arnold, ‘Dover Beach’
Adrienne Rich, ‘Amends’
Ted Hughes, ‘Full Moon and Little Frieda’
Gillian Clarke, ‘Lament’
John Keats, ‘The Grasshopper and The Cricket’
Vachel Lindsay, ‘The Flower-fed Buffaloes’
Boey Kim Cheng, ‘Report to Wordsworth’
John Clare, ‘First Love’
Dennis Scott, ‘Marrysong’
George Gordon Lord Byron, ‘So, We’ll Go No More A-Roving’
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnet 43
(‘How do I love thee? Let me count the ways!’)
Edna St Vincent Millay, Sonnet 29
(‘Pity me not because the light of day’)
Songs of Ourselves: The University of Cambridge International Examinations Anthology of Poetry in
English (Cambridge University Press ISBN-10: 8175962488 ISBN-13: 978-8175962484) [A different
selection from this anthology will be set for the examination from 2013.]
Paper 5
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou; Vertigo



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