IGCSE POETRY BLOG

Check out this amazing blog for links to analyses on all the poems from the anthology and much more. A MUST READ LINK !!

I'll Go No More a Roving Study Guide

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MARRYSONG Study Guide

Fantastic website - essential reading

Sonnet 43 Study Guide

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Timeline Maya Angelou biography

Chap.1: Maya and Bailey go to live in Stamps, Arkansas with Momma and Uncle Willie.

Chap.2: Uncle Willie pretends not to be crippled, so he can make a good impression on some schoolteachers from Little Rock.

Chap.3: Uncle Willie has to hid in the onion crate from the "boys".

Chap.4: One of Momma's friends comments on how ugly Maya is, so Bailey say that her son looked sick and when she asks with what, he says the Uglies.

Chap.5: The powhitetrash come to the store and start harrassing Momma and then one of them does a cartwheel and she doesn't have any other undergarments on, but Momma just ignores them and keeps her calm.

Chap.6: Sister Monroe starts acting like a crazy person in church, saying "Preach It! I said Preach It!".

Chap.7: Momma and Uncle Willie hid a man in their chifforobe from the Ku Klux Klan.

Chap.8: Bailey and Maya's parents send them Christmas presents.

Chap.9: Daddy Bailey comes to Stamps to take Maya and Bailey to St. Louis, Missourri to live with their mother.

Chap.10: Maya and Bailey meet their mother and the other side of their family.

Chap.11: Mr. Freeman sexually molestes Maya.

Chap.12: Mr. Freeman Rapes Maya.

Chap.13: Maya gets taken to the hospital and then later on she has to testify against Mr. Freeman in court.

Chap.14: Maya and Bailey get sent back to Stamps.

Chap.15: Maya meets Mrs. Flowers.

Chap.16: Maya goes to work for Mrs. Cullinan, who isults Maya by calling her Mary, so Maya breaks Mrs. Cullinan's mother's Viginia China.

Chap.17: Bailey gets in trouble for staying out late to see a movie.

Chap.18: All of the African-American's in Stamps go to a revival meeting held in a tent.

Chap.19: All of the African-Americans in Stamps go to Momma's store to listen to the boxing matchon the radio between a white man and a black man.

Chap.20: Maya recieves her first Valentine.

Chao.21:Bailey plays "house" with some girls from school.

Chap.22: Mr. taylor comes to Momma's store one night, claiming he had seen his dead wife's ghost.

Chap.23: Maya graduates from eighth grade.

Chap.24: Maya gets a toothache, so Momma takes who to the white dentist in Stamps, who refuses to see her, so they have to go to Texicana.

Chap.25: Bailey sees an African-American man's dead body being pulled out of a lake.

Chap.26: Momma takes Bailey and Maya to California to live with Mother Dear.

Chap.27: WW2 hits San Fransisco, California.

Chap.28: Maya goes to George Washington High School.

Chap.29: Roomers rent rooms in Maya's house.

Chap.30: Maya goes to Daddy Baileys for the summer and he takes her to Mexico.

Chap.31: Maya gets into a fight with Dolores(her dad's girlfriend).

Chap.32: Maya runs away from her dad's friends house and lives in a junkyard with some other kids.

Chap.33: When Maya goes back home, Mother Dear and Bailey get into a fight and Bailey moves out.

Chap.34: Maya gets a job as a streetcar conductor after three weeks of trying.

Chap.35: Maya thinks that she is a lesbian, so she goes out and has sexual intercourse with a boy to prove that she isn't.

Chap.36: Maya gets pregnant and has a baby boy.

Timeline of Maya Angelou's Life

Interview with Maya Angelou

http://mayaangelou.com/ 

Scholastic Videos

Greetings from Maya Angelou 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Know_Why_the_Caged_Bird_Sings

http://classiclit.about.com/od/iknowwhythecagedbird/a/aa_iknowbirdqu.htm

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/cagedbird/

Report to Wordsworth

The Flower Fed Buffaloes

Romantic poetry

On The Grasshopper and The Cricket

http://englishlanguageliterature.wordpress.com/2011/02/17/on-the-grasshopper-and-the-cricket-by-john-keats/

INTERNATIONAL STREAM MOCK EXAM - QUESTIONS ON JULIUS CAESAR BY SHAKESPEARE, CAMBRIDGE POETRY ANTHOLOGY, WUTHERING HEIGHTS BY EMILE BRONTE :

Example of excellent paper

Example of Average Paper

Notice how the well written answers make close reference to the LANGUAGE of the text with well organised PARAGRAPHS and use of EMBEDDED QUOTATIONS.

MOCK EXAMINATION REVISION PACK

Examination Format

See Exam Information Below

Poetry

Download the information from the poetry presentations below.

The exam will be on: The Voice; Time; Dover Beach; Amends; Full Moon and Little Frieda; Lament; First Love.


THE VOICE BY THOMAS HARDY

TIME BY ALAN CURNOW


DOVER BEACH BY MATTHEW ARNOLD

AMENDS BY ADRIENNE RICH


FULL MOON AND LITTLE FRIEDA

LAMENT

FIRST LOVE



CHECK THIS OUT, ESPECIALLY THE VIDEOS AND POWERPOINTS !

Death of a Salesman

Death of A Salesman Study Guide

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/salesman/

The Great Gatsby

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Mock examination will be on chapters 1-3 ONLY.

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/gatsby/

Exam Information for New (and returning!) Students

The official stuff:

First Language Syllabus: paper 2 and paper 3

IGCSE First Language Presentation

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

The Great Gatsby

Vocabulary
Vocabulary - Definitions

The Great Gatsby Comprehension Quest Corrected

Important video about Fitzgerald's life - required listening


Answer the following questions after viewing:

1. Gertrude Stein referred to people of the Twenties as the "lost generation." Why were they "lost"?
2. Why were American writers and artists in France during the Twenties?
3. What do Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, embody about the Twenties, according to Fitzgerald's granddaughter, Eleanor Lanahan?
4. What led to the 18th Amendment? Why did America have prohibition? What role did alcohol play in the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald?
5. How did Fitzgerald's writing reflect the Twenties? Identify at least two ways.

F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Jazz Age Presentation


The Great Gatsby Game

The Great Gatsby: Symbols and Motifs

Useful One Page Study Guide

LAMENT - STUDY GUIDE

STUDENT PRODUCTION 1

Full moon and little Frieda

Full Moon and Little Frieda - Study Guide

Full moon and little Frieda - Student Essay

POETRY OUT LOUD

A POLITE (BUT FIRM) REMINDER TO ADVANCED A STUDENTS THAT I AM STILL WAITING FOR (SOME) SECOND DRAFTS OF THE ESSAY.

REMINDER:

FINAL DEADLINE = SUNDAY 23RD BY MIDDNIGHT.

HOMEWORK: In an interview, Arthur Miller made this comment.



‘Death of a Salesman is about being a father and the moment when your son is no longer swept by the myth of your greatness.’ Comment on this making reference to important scenes and passages from the book.



You should aim to write about 500 words.

You must type your essay.

You should include an introduction and conclusion and at least 4 to 5 paragraphs of development using the PEE format.

Essays that do not include relevant embedded quotes and analysis will not be marked.

Unchecked essays containing run-on sentences, repeated spelling /grammar mistakes and that switch between past and present tense will be marked down.

MORE HELP AND REVISION GUIDES WILL BE POSTED BELOW AND ON THE BLOG THIS WEEKEND BUT REMEMBER, WHAT COUNTS ARE YOUR IDEAS.

Amends - Adrienne Rich

Letter for 3ème advanced students and parents

Romanticism and Romantic Poetry

Romantic poetry

First Love Study Guide Corrected

Dover Beach Study Guide

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover_Beach

Excellent Revision Guide