Paper+Three+-+Prose

=Revision for Paper Three= =

Paper 3 Poetry and Prose (2 hours) (50% weighting)

Candidates will be required to answer on two texts: one question from each section. Texts will not be allowed in the examination room. Dictionaries may not be used.

On each text an essay question and a passage-based question will be set. All questions require candidates to demonstrate a response showing understanding of the text and an informed independent opinion, and to communicate these clearly and appropriately. Questions on the relation of textual parts to their wholes, on the effective use of narrative methods, and on the style and language of texts will test candidates’ understanding of the ways in which writers’ choices of form, structure and language shape meanings.

Section A: Poetry
//Songs of Ourselves//

Answer one question from this section (either extract or general question on the following poems)

Poetry Notes : These are the notes that Cambridge send to teachers - they are meant to stimulate and therefore don't give explicit ideas. They give useful background and can steer you in the right direction. For more complete notes check the PDF's below.

remember that following poems have already been used in the extract question in previous years.

Spirit is too Blunt J07 Hunting Snake N07 Planners J08 Where I come from N08 Pied Beauty J09

Sujata Bhatt //A Different History// pied beauty Allen Curnow //Continuum// Judith Wright //Hunting Snake// C Rossetti A Birthday [|D G Rossetti The Wood Spurge] These are some of his paintings Kevin Halligan I watched a giant cockroach… [|Margaret Atwood The City Planners] Boey Kim Cheng //The Planners// Norman MacCaig //Summer Farm// Elizabeth Brewster //Where I Come From// [|William Wordsworth Composed upon Westminster Bridge] Just as reading James K Baxter //The Bay// A H Clough //Where Lies the Land// Les Murray //Morse// Thom Gunn //The Man with Night Sweats// Robert Lowell //Night Sweat// Edward Thomas //Rain// Cosmo Monkhouse Any Soul to Any Body [|Anne Stevenson //The Spirit is too Blunt an Instrument//] Tony Harrison //from Long Distance// [|George Meredith //Modern Love//] Walt Whitman //Song of Myself// Thomas Hardy //He Never Expected Much// Fleur Adcock //The Telephone Call// Peter Porter //A Consumer’s Report// Charles Tennyson Turner //On Finding a Small Fly Crushed in a Book// P B Shelley Ozymandias Stevie Smith Away Melancholy

=__Major Literary Movements__=

=Section B: Prose= Short stories or Novel

Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe


Mixture of student seminars, lesson notes and Mr Gangadeen's class seminars


 * __Thematic considerations and Meta narratives__**


 * __Characters__**

High powered book on Africa and Achebe Page 100 onwards. page 132 ish concerns symbolic nature of Anthills [|Google Novel]

Katherine Mansfield: Short Stories
Mansfield General Info Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding Millie Woman at the Store An Indiscreet Journey The Little Governess Prelude Bliss A Married Man’s Story Her First Ball At the Bay The Garden Party The Voyage