Sunday, October 11, 2009

Curriculum Guide for Christmas Term

Letter Writing
  • Friendly Letter/Formal letter eg. complaint, apology
  • Verb Tenses
  • Punctuation
  • Parts of Speech(preposition, conjunction)
  • vocabulary (prefix, suffix)
Report Writing
  • newspaper
  • the simple past tense
  • fact vs. opinion
  • paragraphing

*The syllabus is in the process of being changed, so this is as far as I can go with certainty.

The Novel- Sixty Five
  • elements of the novel
  • themes eg. family relationship, love, heroism etc.
  • social context
  • historical background/relevance
  • character development (comparison and contrast)
  • author's identity and his era
*This is for Term One

Thursday, October 1, 2009

READING LIST FOR 2nd FORM


Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott

Jeremiah, Devil of the Woods by Martina Altmann

Sounder by William Armstrong

Are you there God? It's me, Margaret by Judy Blume

Cracker Jackson by Betsy Byars

Catweazle by Richard Carpenter

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

Dolphin Island by Arthur Clarke

Rascoe, Rats and Nimh by Jane Lesley Conly

Over sea, Under stone by Susan Cooper

The House of Sixty Father

The Wheel on the School by Mendert De Jong

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

The Village by the Sea by Anita Desai

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Three Singles to Adventure by Gerald Durrel

Trillions by Nicholas Fisk

TO BE CONTINUED

***I will add the syllabus
for second form the very
next time I visit this site.