CSEC ENGLISH B COURSE OUTLINE 2018-2023

Please find attached a copy of the CSEC English B Course Outline. I have been using this course outline in one form or another for more than five years now. I have fount that, it has been helpful in organizing how I teach the English B syllabus to my grades 10 and 11 students.

How I use the Document

1. I provide copies of the document to each student of my class on the first day of class.

2. My students and I explore the document together. We review the exam paper layout; then we examine the texts, short stories and poems that comprise the syllabus.

3. Students review the grading scheme for the class and the requirements for recommendation.

4. Students review the key terms that they should learn. 

5. Students are given a Glossary of Literary Terms to create based on the list of terms on the course outline. The teacher explains the guidelines for researching the terms. 

6. Students will use their glossary as a reference text over the period of the course. 

7. Students, along the teacher, track the progress of the content covered in the syllabus. 

8. Students are encouraged to tick off each text, poem, short story that is covered.

Here is a copy of the course outline you can view and download.




   

English B June 2018- January 2023 Syllabus

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

The highlighted stories are the stories that have been added to the syllabus.

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