PRESCRIBED TEXTS FOR ENGLISH B
TEXTS PRESCRIBED FOR THE JUNE 2018 – JANUARY 2023 EXAMINATIONS ARE AS FOLLOWS:
DRAMA
Two Questions will be set:The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Ti-Jean and his Brothers by Derek Walcott
POETRY
Selection of Poems from A World of Poetry for CXC Hazel Simmons-McDonald and (New Edition) Mark McWatt
Poems Prescribed for the JUNE 2018 – JANUARY 2023 Examinations are as Follows:
1. An African Thunderstorm -David Rubadiri
2. Once Upon a Time -Gabriel Okara
3. Birdshooting Season -Olive Senior
4. West Indies, U.S.A. -Stewart Brown
5. Sonnet Composed Upon Westminster Bridge- William Wordsworth
6. Orchids- Hazel Simmons-McDonald
7. The Woman Speaks to the Man who has employed Her Son- Lorna Goodison
8. It is the Constant Image of your Face -Dennis Brutus
9. God’s Grandeur- Gerard Manley Hopkins
10. A Stone’s Throw -Elma Mitchell
11. Test Match Sabina Park -Stewart Brown
12. Theme for English B -Langston Hughes
13. Dreaming Black Boy -James Berry
14. My Parents -Stephen Spender
15. Dulce et Decorum Est Wilfred Owen
16. This is the Dark Time, My Love- Martin Carter
17. Ol’Higue- Mark McWatt
18. Mirror -Sylvia Plath
19. South -Kamau Brathwaite
20. Little Boy Crying -Mervyn Morris
*The highlighted poems are the poems that have been added to the syllabus.
PROSE FICTION
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
SHORT STORY
This selection of short stories is from A World of Prose for CXC David Williams and
(New Edition) Hazel Simmons-McDonald
Short Stories Prescribed for the JUNE 2018 – JANUARY 2023 Examinations are as Follows:
1. The Two Grandmothers -Olive Senior
2. Blackout Roger- Mais
3. Emma- Carolyn Cole
4. The Man of the House -Frank O’Connor
5. Blood Brothers -John Wickham
6. The Day the World Almost Came to an End- Pearl Crayton
7. The Boy Who Loved Ice Cream- Olive Senior
8. Berry- Langston Hughes
9. Mom Luby and the Social Worker -Kristin Hunter
10. To Da-duh, in Memoriam -Paule Marshall
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