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 SET TEXTS FOR EXAMINATION IN 2008

Section A: DRAMA

Alan Ayckbourn A Small Family Business

Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun

Arthur Miller The Crucible

William Shakespeare As You Like It

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire

 Section B: POETRY

From Section 3 of Songs of Ourselves:  

The following fifteen poems are to be studied: 

  1. Maya Angelou: ‘Caged Bird’
  2. Norman Nicholson: ‘Rising Five’
  3. Mervyn Morris: ‘Little Boy Crying’
  4. Carol Rumens: ‘Carpet Weavers, Morocco’
  5. P. B. Shelley: ‘Song to the Men of England’
  6. H. Clough: from ‘Spectator Ab Extra’
  7. Hone Tuwhare: ‘Monologue’
  8. Charles Mungoshi: ‘Before the Sun’
  9. Sujata Bhatt: ‘Muliebrity’
  10. William Wordsworth: ‘She dwelt among the untrodden ways’
  11. James K. Baxter: ‘Farmhand’
  12. Isobel Dixon: ‘Plenty’
  13. Liz Lochhead: ‘Storyteller’
  14. Charles Lamb: ‘The Old Familiar Faces’
  15. Seamus Heaney: ‘Mid-Term Break’

 

John Keats from Poems

The following ten poems are to be studied:

  1. from Endymion: A Poetic Romance, Book 1: lines 1-33 (from ‘A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:’ to ‘They alway must be with us, or we die.’
  2. The Eve of St Agnes
  3. La belle dame sans merci
  4. Ode to Psyche
  5. Ode to a Nightingale
  6. Ode on a Grecian Urn
  7. Ode on Melancholy
  8. Ode on Indolence
  9. To Autumn
  10. ‘Bright Star, would I were stedfast as thou art’

 

Section C: PROSE

Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart

Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice

 Ian Cross The God Boy

Helen Dunmore The Siege

William Golding Lord of the Flies

Thomas Hardy Far From the Madding Crowd

Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird

Barrie Wade, ed. from Into the Wind: Contemporary Stories in English (Nelson)

The following twelve stories are to be studied:

  1. Alex La Guma: ‘The Lemon Orchard’
  2. Jean Rhys: ‘Let Them Call It Jazz’
  3. John Wyndham: ‘Dumb Martian’
  4. Patrick O’Brian: ‘Samphire’
  5. Jan Mark: ‘Feet’
  6. Doris Lessing: ‘A Woman on a Roof’
  7. Cyprian Ekwensi: ‘A Stranger from Lagos’
  8. Dorothy M. Johnson: ‘A Man Called Horse’
  9. Roald Dahl: ‘The Hitch-hiker’
  10. Liam O’Flaherty: ‘The Sniper’
  11. Doris Lessing: ‘Flight’
  12. Frank O’Connor: ‘My Oedipus Complex’