The aim of this course is to furnish students with the knowledge and the ability to critically appreciate the texts included in the KBSM Literature Component. It is hoped that a thorough understanding of the principles of literary appreciation and criticism will enable them successfully translate the National Education Philosophy into classroom practice. The texts used in the course are chosen from the literary texts nominated by the Ministry of Education Malaysia.
By the end of the course students should:
1. have a general understanding of the content and issues in all the texts offered in the Literature in English component syllabus
2. Be able to use language based strategies, stylistics, reader response strategies and cultural strategies in interpreting the content of the literary texts
3. Know and identify the different literature syllabi in the Malaysian secondary school curriculum
4. Present an as aspect of an assigned literary text creatively to demonstrate creative and critical thinking abilities
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Short Stories The Pencil* How Dalat Got its Name* Of Bunga Telur and Bally Shoes The Drovers Wife* Looking for Rain God The Lotus Eater The Necklace The Sound Machine |
Ali majod Heidi Munan Che Husna Azhari Henry Lawson Bessie Head Somerset Maugham Guy de Maupassant Roald Dahl |
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Novels Potato People (abridged) Robinson Crusoe (abridged) Phantom of the Opera (abridged) The Prisoner of Zenda (abridged) Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde (abridged) Jungle of Hope The Return The Pearl |
Angela Wright Daniel Defoe Gasion Leroux Anthony Hope Hawkins R.L.Stevenson Keris Mas K.S.Maniam John Steinbeck |
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Poetry If * The Road not Taken* Monsoon History* Sonnet 18* Si Tenggang’s Homecoming* There’s been a death in the house opposite* Life’s Brief Candle* The Dead Crow* The lake Isle of Innisfree* |
Rudyard Kipling Robert Frost Shirly Lim William Shakespeare Muhammed Haji Salleh Emily Dickinson William Shakespeare A.Samad Said W.B.yeats |
Reference Materials:
Joanne Collie, Stephen Slater (2000)
- Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (10th Edition) (Kennedy/Gioia Literature Series) by X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia 2006
- Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing Compact (4th Edition) by Edgar V. Roberts (Paperback - Nov 12, 2007)
- Carter,R and M.Long 1991. Teaching Literature : Hong Kong : Longman
- Carter, R et.al. 1998 Working with texts. London: Routledge
- Carter, R and McRae. (eds) 1996. Language. literature and the learner: Creative classroom practice. London: Longman
- McRae, J. 1991 Literature with a small ‘l’. Hong Kong: Macmillan
- Singleton, M and Luckhurst, M. 1999. The creative writing handbook. London: Macmillan.
- Assignment One (Personal, Reader Response) Individual Essay - 15%
- Web Forum (3 forum discussions) - 5%
- Web Based Literature Activities 20%
- Creative Project- Creative Interpretation of text/Micro Teaching 20%
5. Final Examination 40%
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National Policy on English Literature Ministry of Education Malaysia |
Distribution of course schedule and other materials. Lecture: Why the policy change? The implications of the policy change. Tutorial: Examining the various literature syllabi. 10 minutes group presentation of the aims, objectives and the texts. |
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National Policy on English Literature Ministry of Education Malaysia · Rational for the study of lit · Value of studying lit · Aims & Objectives of the Lit syllabi in the Malaysian curriculum · Contemporary Lit for Primary School · Lower Secondary · SPM STPM Elective · Identifying the texts |
Identifying the aims and objectives of the literature component in the syllabus |
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Assigned literary texts and reading of specific theories | |
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Key areas in the study of literature |
Analyse: Issues, Conflicts S.Story- Of Bunga Telur and Bally Shoes The Drovers Wife Novel-Jungle of Hope Poem: Si Tenggang’s Homecoming* There’s been a death in the house Lake Isle of Innisfree |
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Working with the literature component and ways of reading Language based approaches to literature |
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Working with the literature component and ways of reading Language based approaches to literature |
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Working with the literature component and ways of reading Post Colonial Approaches to literature |
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Working with the literature component and ways of reading Cultural/Ethnocentric reading perspectives |
Novel The Return Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde |
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Working with the literature component and ways of reading Gender Perspectives |
Novel The Return Jungle of Hope |
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Theories in teaching literature Reader Response Schema Theory |
Novel: Potato People Phantom of the Opera |
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Creativity in the Literature Classroom |
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Creativity in the Literature Classroom |
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Creative Presentation |
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