Syllabus for a. p. English OVER THREE YEARS
WHAT IS REQUIRED? POETRY: Learners must study two groups of poets. Candidates must choose 2 out of 3 of the following options: • Prose • Drama • Film
The syllabus Novels Grade 10 Purple Hibiscus Chimamanda Adichie Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte Disgrace J.M. Coetzee Frankenstein Mary Shelley Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson Grade 11 As I lay Dying William Faulkner The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Ben in the World Doris Lessing The Comfort of Strangers Ian McEwan Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood Grade 12 Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh Nervous Conditions Tsitsi Dangarembga
Drama Grade 10 Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett Top Girls Caryl Churchill White Men with Weapons Greig Coetzee Fishers of Hope Lara Foot Grade 11 A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansbury Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller The Tempest William Shakespeare Grade 12 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Tom Stoppard A Streetcar named Desire Tennessee Williams
Film Grade 10 The Grand Budapest Hotel Wes Anderson Elysium Neil Blomkamp Vertigo Alfred Hitchcock Bicycle Thieves Vittorio De Sica Cabaret Bob Fosse Grade 11 The Piano Jane Campion Another Country Marek Kanievska Riding in cars with Boys Penny Marshall The English Patient Anthony Minghella Grade 12 Citizen Kane Orson Welles Atonement Joe Wright
POETRY Learners must study two groups of poets. Learners must study a minimum of two poets and three poems by each poet within each group. It is beneficial for learners to have read a significant cross-section of the poet’s work including his/her seminal texts.
THEME THE DANGER OF A SINGLE STORY
South African with a Socio-political Perspective Tatamkhulu Africa Gabriel Okara Wally Serote Wole Soyinka South African with a Socio-political Perspective Jeremy Cronin Don Mattera Oswald Mtshali Chris van Wyk South African with a Humanistic Perspective Douglas Livingstone Chris Mann Ruth Miller Stephen Watson
Women/Resisting Convention Maya Angelou Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Barrett Browning Nikki Giovanni Sylvia Plath Adrienne Rich The Romantics William Blake Lord Byron Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Keats Percy Bysshe Shelley William Wordsworth The Victorians Matthew Arnold Robert Browning Thomas Hardy Gerard Manley Hopkins Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Modernists W. H. Auden e. e. Cummings Ezra Pound T.S. Eliot William Yeats British Carol-Ann Duffy Ted Hughes Phillip Larkin Dylan Thomas American Robert Frost Langston Hughes Marianne Moore Walt Whitman