Category Archives: Senior 3 2019

Self-Reflection

Choose 10 of these questions and prepare a post in your blog to work on self assessment and reflection Relationships and Collaboration 1.Could you say something positive about each of your classmates? 2.What could you do today to help you … Continue reading

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Tips to succed at the IGCSE Literature Exam

Check what students say about the exam Poetry Tips How to study Literature Use all these tips and your own ideas to make mindmaps with tips

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Mock Papers

Poetry and Prose Drama

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Essay writing

Read this poem, and then answer the question that follows it: Song: Tears, Idle Tears Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the … Continue reading

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Poem: Tears, Idle Tears

Tears, Idle Tears Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn-fields, And thinking of the days … Continue reading

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Writing a Literary Essay

What Is a Literary Essay? A literary analysis essay is an academic assignment that examines and evaluates a work of literature or a given aspect of a specific literary piece. It tells about the big idea or theme of a … Continue reading

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Friend – Hone Tuwhare

Hone Tuwhare, Maori poet (born Oct. 21, 1922, Kaikohe, Northland, N.Z.—died Jan. 16, 2008, Dunedin, N.Z.), made an international impression and became the first widely celebrated Maori poet with his initial collection, No Ordinary Sun (1964). Tuwhare’s poetry, written in English, has a conversational tone and … Continue reading

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My Parents by Stephen Spender

Sir Stephen Spender, in full Sir Stephen Harold Spender, (born February 28, 1909, London, England—died July 16, 1995, London), English poet and critic, who made his reputation in the 1930s with poems expressing the politically conscience-stricken, leftist “new writing” of that period. … Continue reading

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Conflicts in Literature

conflicts in literature from Pato_Ch

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Mind maps to review poetry

IGCSE Poetry Candidates answer on one set text in this section: From Songs of Ourselves Volume 1, Part 5, the following 15 poems: Fleur Adcock, ‘For Heidi With Blue Hair’ James K Baxter, ‘Elegy For My Father’s Father’ Elizabeth Bishop, … Continue reading

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Because I Could Not Stop For Death (Analysis)

Last class, we worked on the writer of the poem and the context of production together with the poem general ideas. Now, we are going to dig deeper into it! TASK 1: Watch the video and take notes to analyse … Continue reading

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Because I Could Not Stop For Death

 Emily Dickinson Task 1: Before reading the poem, let’s get to know the author. Do research on Emily Dickinson and write a summary of her life. Task 2: Context of production Emily Dickinson wrote at the end of the Romantic … Continue reading

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