These recommended free e-resources are specifically aligned with the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) curriculum framework as suggested in the CSEC English Literature Syllabus. Resources are provided under each of the three topics of study as recommended by CXC:

 

Topic 1. Drama

Topic 2. Poetry

Topic 3. Prose Fiction

 

TOPIC 1. DRAMA

NOTE: The student develops an understanding of drama as a discrete literary genre and the associated dramatic elements listed:

• Performance as its main vehicle
• Stage directions
• Character
• Spectacle;
• The development of character, theme, and atmosphere through elements such as lighting costuming, stage prop.  Such dramatic elements ought to be the primary focus of teaching and study.

 

WEBSITE

• Free Drama E-book Downloads

https://www.bookrix.com/books;drama,id:13.html

• Category: Drama

https://csecenglishmadeeasy.com/category/drama/

VIDEO

•  Ti- Jean and His Brothers

https://www.bing.com/search?q=vidios+for+for+ti-+jeand+and+his+brothers&form=EDGNB2&mkt=en-us&httpsmsn=1&msnews=1&plvar=0&refig=50de866553564e0

PDF

• Ti- Jean and His Brothers (Handout)

https://www.wbsenglish.com/uploads/5/4/5/0/54506731/ti-jean_and_his_brothers_handout__-_primary.pdf

 

TOPIC 2. POETRY

NOTE: The student develops an understanding of poetry as a discrete literary genre as well as the associated literary elements listed:

• Fixed forms, metre, rhythm and rhyme
• The economy of language
• The organic relationship between sound and sense
• The figurative language employed to give the poem levels of meaning. 

 

WEBSITE

• Bird shooting Season / Olive Senior

https://csecenglishmadeeasy.com/2017/08/2017-8-18-bird-shooting-season/

• Orchids / Hazel Simmons Mc Donald

https://csecenglishmadeeasy.com/2017/01/2017-01-orchids-by-hazel-simmons-mcdonald-html/

• The Woman speaks to the man who has employed her son / Lorna Goodinson

https://csecenglishmadeeasy.com/2017/01/2016-03-the-woman-speaks-to-man-who-has-html/

• God's Grandeur/ Gerard Manley Hopkins

 https://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/hopkins/section1

• My Parents/ Stephen Spender

https://literarydevices.net/my-parents/

• Ol' Higue / Mark Mc Watt

http://crossesenglishclass.blogspot.com/2015/05/ol-higue-by-mark-mcwatt.html

• A stone's throw/ Elma Mitchell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsVn1AVS-N4&feature=youtu.be

• This is the Dark Time, My Love/ Martin Carter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqaIOsZWt2M&list=UUKkM9g2jjE77-IaL97WG-0g&index=39

VIDEO

• Bird Shooting Season/ Olive Senior

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8rAL4WREAQ

• God's Grandeur/ Gerard Manley Hopkins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow544jtXrk4

• A Stone's Throw/ Elma Mitchell

https://youtu.be/t56twxZ8Z0c

• Test Match Sabina Park/ Stewart Brown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DaAsuJnato

• Dreaming Black Boy/ James Berry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrkBdCRmeck

• Ol'Higue /Mark Mc Watt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SABDeRIA1B0

 

TOPIC 3. PROSE FICTION

NOTE: The student develops an understanding of and appreciation for the literary elements of Prose Fiction as listed:

• Narrative technique and the use of first-person and third-person narrators;
• Structure, that is, the way in which a work of prose fiction is put together, for example, whether it is an unbroken narrative, or a narrative divided into chapters, or into larger sections or more than one narrative put together to form a longer narrative;
• The difference between narration and description
• The presentation of humankind in a social setting
• Characterization
• Themes.  

 

WEBSITE

What is Prose Fiction?

https://www.bing.com/search?q=prose+fiction&form=EDGNB2&mkt=en-us&httpsmsn=1&msnews=1&plvar=0&refig=bfe9904619054b9fd28676b2be0d1a0b&sp=-1&pq=prose+fiction&sc=8-13&qs=n&sk=&cvid=bfe9904619054b9fd28676b2be0d1a0b

VIDEOS

• Prose versus Poetry

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Prose-Poetry&&view=detail&mid=B05516311E9FEB4DFF8BB05516311E9FEB4DFF8B&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearc

E-BOOK

• To kill a Mocking Bird [Download]

https://epubseries.com/to-kill-a-mockingbird-pdf-book-free-download/

• To kill a Mocking Bird [Download]

https://ardbark.com/to-kill-a-mockingbird-harper

• Things Fall Apart [DOWNLOAD]

https://www.e-bookdownloadfree.com/ebook/things-fall-apart/

• A Collection of E-books for Prose Fiction

https://www.google.com/search?sa=X&sxsrf=ALeKk00ptlfQX2EHMkgwyFDIRI95vpiMPw:1589211829463&q=Le+Morte+d%27Arthur&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAI2Sz2vUQBT

• A World of Prose

https://www.dymocks.com.au/book/a-world-of-prose-by-hazel-simmons-mcdonald-and-mark-mcwatt-9781510411029

 

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