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SS1 Literature Scheme of work-Third Term. Get complete lesson notes and plan by getting in touch.

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ERATURE- SCHEME OF WORK 3RD TERM 2024

Week 1: Welcome test. Revision of last term’s work.

Week 2: Introduction to African Drama

Bosede Ademilua-Afolayan Once Upon an Elephant

OR

Efua Sutherland The Marriage of Anansewa

Authorial and textual background of either play. Plot summary of either play. Setting of either play.

Week 3: Reading and analysis of Act l of either play.

Week 4: Reading and analysis of Act ll of either play.

Week 5: Reading and analysis of Act lll of either play.

Week 6: Comprehensive treatment of all the Acts in either play.

Week 7: Characters and characterization in either play.

Note: Roles and significance of each character in either play must be emphasized.

Week 8: MID TERM BREAK

Week 9: Themes of either play listed above.

Week 10-11: Styles: Dramatic techniques and language of either play.

Week 12-14: Revision and examination.

LIST OF RECOMMENDED/APPROVED LITERATURE-IN-ENGLISH TEXTS FOR THE WEST AFRICAN SENIOR SCHOOL CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION (WASSCE) 2026-2030

SELECTED TEXT

SHAKESPEAREAN TEXT Antony and Cleopatra

AFRICAN PROSE

1.Pede Hollist : So the Path Does not Die

2.Elma Shaw : Redemption Road

NON-AFRICAN PROSE

1.Harper Lee : To Kill a Mocking Bird

2.Susanne Bellefeuille : Path of Lucas: The Journey He Endured

AFRICAN DRAMA

1. Bosede Ademilua- Afolayan : Once Upon an Elephant
2. Efua Sutherland : The Marriage of Anansewa

NON-AFRICAN DRAMA

1. J. D. Priestley : An Inspector Calls
2. Robert Bolt : A Man for all Seasons

AFRICAN POETRY

1. Gabriel Okara : Once Upon a Time
2. Elizabeth L. A. Kamara : New Tongue
3. Wole Soyinka : Night
4. Niyi Osundare : Not my Business
5. S.O.H. Afriyie–Vidza : Hearty Garlands
6. Syl Cheney-Coker : The Breast of The Sea

NON-AFRICAN POETRY

1. Lord Byron : She Walks in Beauty
2. Geoffrey Chaucer : The Nun’s Priest’s Tale (shortened)
3. Seamus Heaney : Digging
4. Maya Angelou : Still I Rise
5. Fleur Adcock : The Telephone Call
6. Wilfred Wilson Gipson : The Stone-

LIST OF PRESCRIBED POEMS FOR LITERATURE-IN-ENGLISH

(2026-2030)

AFRICAN POETRY

1. Gabriel Okara – Once Upon a Time

Once upon a time, son,

they used to laugh with their hearts

and laugh with their eyes:

but now they only laugh with their teeth,

while their ice-block-cold eyes

search behind my shadow.

There was a time indeed

they used to shake hands with their hearts:

but that’s gone, son.

Now they shake hands without hearts

while their left hands search

my empty pockets.

‘Feel at home!’ ‘Come again’:

they say, and when I come

again and feel

at home, once, twice,

there will be no thrice

for then I find doors shut on me.

So I have learned many things, son.

I have learned to wear many faces

like dresses – home face,

office face, street face, host face,

cocktail face, with all their conforming smiles

like a fixed portrait smile.

And I have learned too

to laugh with only my teeth

and shake hands without my heart.

I have also learned to say, ‘Goodbye’,

when I mean ‘Good-riddance’:

to say ‘Glad to meet you’,

without being glad; and to say ‘It’s been

nice talking to you’, after being bored.

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