Colegio Las Cumbres Senior 1 Literature class will cover the following key content areas in their 3 terms: 1) Introduction to literature and literary devices like theme, tone, and figures of speech applied to poetry and prose. Example works include poems "Pied Beauty" and "Pike" as well as the short story "Her First Ball". 2) Comparing and contrasting poems and prose using the literary terms from term 1. Works will include the poems "Hunting Snake" and "Horses" as well as the short story "The Destructors". 3) Analyzing poems and stories in essay format, with a focus on writing longer essays of 250-300 words

1. Colegio Las Cumbres
Nivel Medio - secundaria@lascumbres.edu.ar
Esquema de Contenidos para el Período de Orientación, evaluación y promoción - cierre
Febrero 2013
ASIGNATURA: Literature
CURSO: Senior 1
PROFESOR/A: Patricia Chujman
Contenidos nodales Sub-temas incluídos en el contenido nodal
Literary Devices applied to Poetry and Prose. (theme, tone,
anaphora, metaphor,silmile, oxymoron, point of view,
1º Trimestre
alliteration, irony, satire, epiphany, stting, synaesthesia,
Introduction to Literature hyperbole, imageries, plot, stanza, rhyme)
and literary devices Poetry: “Pied beauty” , “Pike”, “The Cockroach”.
Prose: “Her First Ball”
Essay Writing. (180-220 words)
Poetry: “Hunting Snake”, “Horses”. Prose: “The Dustructors”.
Full analysis of the short story.
2º Trimestre
Comparing and Contrasting The literary terms learnt in the first term will also be applied this
Poems and Prose term to poems and stories.
Essay Writing. (180-220 words)
Poetry: “A Different History”
Prose: “The Son’s Veto” Full analysis of the short story.
3º Trimestre
Poems and stories made
Essay Writing. (Writing longer essays: 250-300 words)
into essays.
Brief introduction to Paper 1 and Paper 3 for the exam. How to
go about the papers.