This document provides the content outline for a Senior 2 Literature class. It includes studying various literary devices applied to poetry and prose like theme, tone, and metaphor. Students will do a full analysis of the novel "The Great Gatsby" and write essays on it and the poems studied. They will also learn different ways to incorporate quotations into essays. Finally, students will prepare for the unseen paper portion of the IGCSE exam by practicing how to connect poems and write longer essays connecting multiple poems studied over the year.

1. Colegio Las Cumbres
Nivel Medio - secundaria@lascumbres.edu.ar
Esquema de Contenidos para el Período de Orientación, evaluación y promoción - cierre
Diciembre 2012
ASIGNATURA: Literature
CURSO: Senior 2
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,
alliteration, irony, satire, epiphany, stting, synaesthesia,
hyperbole, imageries, plot, stanza, rhyme, allusion)
1º Trimestre
Poetry and Prose Prose: “The Great Gatsby”. Full analysis of the novel. (setting,
characters, themes, connection to the 1920s in America)
Poetry: “The Cockroach” , “Pike”.
Essay Writing on poetry and on "The Great Gatsby" (180-220
words)
Poetry: “Hunting Snake”, “Horses”.
Quotations: different ways of quoting and inserting them into
2º Trimestre
Essays and quotations essays. Essay writing on poetry applying literary devices and
qutations (based on the different ways of inserting quotations in
essays)
Poetry: “A Different History”, “Continuum”
Unseen Paper: Presentation. Working on how to tackle this
Poetry: how to find paper of the IGCSE exam. 3º Trimestre
connections. Essay Writing on poetry connecting all the poems we have read
this year. (Writing longer essays: 250-300 words)