Patricia Chujman's Senior 5 Language and Literature class will cover various writing styles, poetry analysis, and vocabulary over three trimesters. In the first trimester, students will write stories, essays and analyze Seamus Heaney's poetry. They will also read and analyze Part 1 and 2 of "A Passage to India" and study the full play "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?". The second trimester focuses on more poetry analysis, contrasting paragraphs, and vocabulary related to war and wealth. Students will continue writing and analyzing drama. In the final trimester, students will explore different writing styles, additional poetry, and write essays on themes of identity, culture, discrimination.

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Language and Literature
Senior 5
Patricia Chujman
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Essay Writing: Discursive and Argumentative. Characteristics of
each form of essay. Writing longer essays: 600-900 words.
Writing stories and essays Poetry: Seamus Heaney: Polish Sleepers, The Turnip Snedder, Anahorish
1944, A Shiver.
Story writing: writing the opening of a story, writing the first chapter of a
story.
Vocabulary: horror-ghosts stories and Natural Disasters.
1º Trimestre
Prose: "A Passage to India". Review Part 1 and 2. Reading Part 3.
Drama: Who´s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Full analysis.
Writing essays analysing themes and characters.
2º Trimestre
Writing and Drama
analysis.
Poetry: writing essays on Seamus Heaney´s Poems: The Aerodrome, To
Mick Joyce in Heaven, The Helmet, Anything can Happen, The Clip, Rilke,
After the Fire, District and Circle, Poet to Blacksmith, The Lift, Midnight
Anvil.
Language Writings: contrasting paragraphs.
Vocabulary: War. Poverty vs Wealth
Language Writings: contrasting paragraphs, stories, contrasting
monologues.
Vocabulary: Travelling, place description
3º Trimestre
Different writing styles.
Poetry: The Stinking Rose, A Different History, Search for My Mother
Tongue, Neighbours, The British, The Wife of Bafa
Writing essays on Identity, clash of cultures, discrimination and
segregation, etc.