Selection of Short Stories, Poems, Novels & Dramas: 6th Cycle

SHORT STORY

1. Cinderella Girl by Vivien Alcock
2. Naukar by Anya Sitaram
3. Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
4. The Landlady by Roald Dahl
5. Neighbours by Rober Raymer

POEMS

Theme: Conflicts

1. Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
2. The Man He Killed (From 'The Dynasts')
by Thomas Hardy
3. Death of a Rainforest by Cecil Rajendra
4. 'The War against the Trees' by Stanley Kunitz
5. a quarrel between day and night by Omar Mohd Nor
6. 'Crabbed age and youth cannot live together'
(From 'The Passionate Pilgrim, XII')
by William Shakespeare


Theme: Perceptions of Self

1. Birches by Robert Frost
2. 'I AM' by John Clare
3. This Is A Photograph of Me by Margaret Atwood
4. Waiting To Go On by Hugo Williams
5. Daring Tears by Craig Romkema
6. the traveler by Muhammad Haji Salleh

Theme: Relationships

1. A Prayer For My Daughter by William Butler Yeats
2. The Way Things Are by Roger McGough
3. For my old amah by Wong Phui Nam
4. Sonnet 43 How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
(From the Portuguese) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
5. Ways of Love by Chung Yee Chong
6. Tonight I Can Write by Pablo Neruda (translated by W. S. Merwin)

NOVEL

1. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
2. Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai
3. Holes by Louis Sachar

DRAMA

1. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
2. The Lion and the Jewel by Wole Soyinka
3. An Inspector Calls by J. B. Priestly

SPM English Literature 6th Cycle

SPM English Literature: An Overview

Consists of 4 Genres:

1. Short Story (A total of 5)

2. Novel (A total of 3 - Choose a minimum of 1)

3. Drama (A total of 3 - Choose a minimum of 1)

4. Poetry (3 themes - relationships, perceptions of self, and conflicts - choose a minimum of 1 theme, which consists of 6 poems)

There will be at least one question (with 3 parts) in whichever novel, drama and theme (in poetry) for the candidate to answer. In the short story section, a candidate has to be well-versed in at least 2 of the short stories but only needs to answer 1 short story which he/she has confidence in.