LITERATURE SYLLABUS – 2015
Teacher: Laura Smietniansky
Year: 3rd Year Blue and Green
General Aims:
To enable students to:
• Understand and respond to literary texts in different forms and from different periods and
cultures
• Communicate an informed personal response appropriately and effectively
• Experience literature’s contribution to aesthetic, imaginative and intellectual growth
• Appreciate different ways in which writers achieve their effects
• Express ideas, feelings and opinions in written discourse in an adequate standard of
production.
• Develop their dictionary skills in order to explore how writers use words.
Unit 1: Poetry . Songs Of Ourselves.
• “Father returning home” (D. Chitre), “Coming home” (O. Sheers).
• Literary Analysis: theme & tone, underlying meanings, literary devices: imagery, metaphors &
similes, personification, alliteration & anaphora. Rhyme scheme. Context of production.
• FCE Reading Practice.
• The literary essay: thesis, style, form (Introduction, Body, Conclusion)
• Extensive reading.
Unit 2: Poetry. Songs of Ourselves.
• “Stabat Mater” (S. Hunt), “For my grandmother knitting” (L. Lochhead).
• Literary Analysis: theme & tone, underlying meanings, literary devices: imagery, metaphors &
similes, personification, alliteration & anaphora. Rhyme scheme. Context of production.
• FCE Reading Practice.
• The literary essay: How to Quote (Form and Relevance). Revision strategies: Checking for
Content, Organization and Clarity. Spelling, Punctuation and Capitalization.
• Extensive Reading.
Unit 3: Poetry. Songs of Ourselves.
• “She was a phantom of delight” (W. Wordsworth), “Song” (L. M. Wroth).
• Literary Analysis: theme & tone, underlying meanings, literary devices: imagery, metaphors &
similes, personification, alliteration & anaphora. Rhyme scheme. Context of production.
• FCE Reading Practice.
• Vocabulary: expository terms for logical order (Beginning, Middle and End words), transition
words (Addition, Contrast, Time, Cause and Result, Manner or Method, Condition)
• Extensive Reading.
Assessment Criteria:
In order to get a pass, students must comply with the following:
• Attendance: 80%
• Assignments: 100%
o Students must bring material every class, comply with everything asked in class
and have a complete notebook with photocopies stuck in it.
• Participation: 80%
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Students must pay attention and behave properly in class. They should have a
good use of oral and written language.
Formal tests (mini tests, quarterlies, etc.): above 7 in all the tests
Compulsory bibliography:
• Songs of Ourselves vol. II: The University of Cambridge International Examinations Anthology
of Poetry in English. CUP.
• GORMLEY, Katrina. (2013). Close-Up B2. Student´s Book. National Geographic Learning.
• 3 Books selected from the Extensive Reading Programme List.