English Literature

Week 1            Introduction to class, and course rules and structure

Week 2            Maya Angelou, ‘Caged Bird’, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ‘Sonnet 43’ James K Baxter, ‘Farmhand’, Sujata Bhatt, ‘Muliebrity’

Week 3            Isobel Dixon, ‘Plenty’, Rosemary Dobson, ‘The Three Fates’, Robert Hayden, ‘Those Winter Sundays’, Seamus Heaney, ‘Mid-Term Break’

Week 4            Mervyn Morris, ‘Little Boy Crying’ Norman Nicholson, ‘Rising Five’ Adrienne Rich, ‘Amends’, Edna St Vincent Millay, ‘Sonnet 29’

Week 5            Dennis Scott, ‘Marrysong’, Stevie Smith, ‘Not Waving but Drowning’, William Wordsworth, ‘She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways’

Week 6            Kofi Awoonor, ‘The Sea Eats the Land at Home’, Robert Bridges, ‘London Snow’ Billy Collins, ‘Afternoon with Irish Cows’ David Constantine, ‘Watching for Dolphins

Week 7            William Cowper, ‘The Poplar-Field’,  Allen Curnow, ‘You will Know When You Get There’ Gerard Manley Hopkins, ‘The Caged Skylark’, Elizabeth Jennings, ‘In Praise of Creation

Week 8            John Keats, ‘Ode on Melancholy’ Philip Larkin, ‘Coming’,  Ruth Pitter, ‘Stormcock in Elder’,  Peter Reading, ‘Cetacean’

Week 9            Edna St Vincent Millay, ‘The Buck in the Snow’, Charlotte Smith, ‘Written Near a Port on a Dark Evening’, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, ‘The Kraken

Week 10          ‘Head of English’, ‘War Photographer’, ‘Recognition’ ‘Stealing

Week 11          MID-TERM EXAMINATION I: Chapters 1 – 7

Week 12          ‘Foreign’ ‘Originally’ , ‘In Mrs. Tilscher’s Class’ ,‘We Remember Your Childhood Well’

Week 13          ‘The Darling Letters’, ‘In Your Mind’, ‘The Good Teachers’ ‘Valentine’

Week 14          A Child’s Sleep’, ‘Death of a Teacher’, ‘Prayer’

Week 15          Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre Anita Desai In Custody, Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes, Were Watching God, Henry James Washington Square

Week 16          John Knowles A Separate Peace George Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four, Alan Paton Cry, the Beloved Country

Week 17          no. 2 Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’, no. 7 Stephen Crane, ‘The Open Boat’

Week 18          no. 8 Edith Wharton, ‘The Moving Finger’, no. 18 Ray Bradbury, ‘There Will Come Soft Rains’

Week 19          MID-TERM EXAMINATION II: Chapters 8 – 13

Week 20          no. 23 Alex La Guma, ‘The Lemon Orchard’,no. 32 Bernard MacLaverty, ‘Secrets’

Week 21          no. 33 John McGahern, ‘The Stoat’, no. 36 Patricia Grace, ‘Journey’

Week 22          no. 37 Janet Frame, ‘The Bath’,no. 48 Tim Winton, ‘On Her Knees’

Week 23          Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun

Week 24          Arthur Miller the Crucible

Week 25          R C Sherriff Journey’s End

Week 26          William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet

Week 27          William Shakespeare Twelfth Night

Week 28          Paper2: Class Review: Drama

Week 29-33     Mock test – Question paper solving