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CSEC Syllabus - English - 2023-2027

The document lists the prescribed texts for CXC examinations from June 2023 to January 2027. For drama, questions will be set on Twelfth Night by Shakespeare and Anansi by Alistaire Campbell. For poetry, questions will be set from A World of Poetry and 20 individually listed poems. For prose fiction, questions will be set on the novels For the Life of Laetitia and Animal Farm, and from 10 short stories including "Raymond's Run" and "Berry".

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CSEC Syllabus - English - 2023-2027

The document lists the prescribed texts for CXC examinations from June 2023 to January 2027. For drama, questions will be set on Twelfth Night by Shakespeare and Anansi by Alistaire Campbell. For poetry, questions will be set from A World of Poetry and 20 individually listed poems. For prose fiction, questions will be set on the novels For the Life of Laetitia and Animal Farm, and from 10 short stories including "Raymond's Run" and "Berry".

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TEXTS PRESCRIBED FOR THE JUNE 2023 – JANUARY 2027 EXAMINATIONS ARE AS FOLLOWS

TEXT AUTHOR

DRAMA

Four Type A Questions will be set

Twelfth Night William Shakespeare

Anansi Alistaire Campbell

POETRY

Two Type B Questions will be set

Selections from A World of Poetry Hazel Simmons-McDonald and (New


Edition) Mark McWatt

Poems Prescribed for the JUNE 2023–JANUARY 2027 Examinations are as follows:

TEXT AUTHOR

1. An African Thunderstorm David Rubadiri


2. Once Upon a Time Gabriel Okara
3. Little Boy Crying Mervyn Morris
4. West Indies, U.S.A. Stewart Brown
5. Sonnet Composed Upon Westminster Bridge William Wordsworth
6. Birdshooting Season Olive Senior
7. The Woman Speaks to the Man who has Lorna Goodison
Employed Her Son
8. It is the Constant Image of your Face Dennis Brutus
9. A Lesson for this Sunday Derek Walcott
10. A Stone’s Throw Elma Mitchell
11. Test Match Sabina Park Stewart Brown
12. My Parents Stephen Spender
13. Landscape Painter, Jamaica Vivian Virtue
14. Dulce et Decorum Est Wilfred Owen
15. This is the dark time, my love Martin Carter
16. Ol’ Higue Mark McWatt
17. Mirror Sylvia Plath
18. South Kamau Brathwaite
19. Death be Not Proud John Donne
20. Dreaming Black Boy James Berry
PROSE FICTION Novel

Four Type A questions will be set:

1. For the Life of Laetitia Merle Hodge


2. Animal Farm George Orwell

Short Story – Two Type B questions will be set from the ten named short stories:

Selections from A World of Prose for CXC David Williams and

(New Edition) Hazel Simmons-McDonald

Short Stories Prescribed for the JUNE 2023 – JANUARY 2027 Examinations are as Follows:

TEXT AUTHOR

1. Raymond’s Run Tony Cade Bambara


2. Blood Brothers John Wickham
3. The Man of the House Frank O’Connor
4. Georgia and Them There United States Velma Pollard
5. The Two Grandmothers Olive Senior
6. Berry Langston Hughes
7. Mom Luby and the Social Worker Kristin Hunter
8. To Da-duh, in Memoriam Paule Marshall
9. What Happened? Austin Clarke
10. Mint Tea Christine Craig

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