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Name of Teachers |
Levels |
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Ms Bridget Ho (Panel Head) |
F.3, F.4 & F.5 |
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Ms Hermione Lai |
F.3 & F.6 |
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Mr Adam Dowler |
F.2 |
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Ms Fanny Leung |
F.2 |
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Ms Monima Pun |
F.2 |
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F.2-3
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Coursework
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Weighting (%)
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100
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F.4
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First Term
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Second Term
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Tests
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Mid-Year Exam
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Tests
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Final Exam
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Weighting (%)
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30
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70
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30
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70
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F.5
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First Term
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Second Term
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Tests
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Mid-Year Exam
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Tests
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SBA proposal/ outline
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Final Exam
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Weighting (%)
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30
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70
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20
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10 |
70
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| F.6 | First Term | |
| Tests | Final Exam | |
| Weighting (%) | 30 | 70 |
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F.4
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First Term |
Test |
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Chapters 1-2 |
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Test |
1 unseen poem |
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Mid-Year Exam |
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Chapters 1-4 - 3 set poems & 1 unseen poem |
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Second Term |
Test |
2 set poets & 1 unseen poem |
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Test |
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie |
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Final Exam |
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - 6 set poems & 1 unseen poem |
F.5
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First Term |
Test |
4 short stories |
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Test |
The Merchant of Venice: Acts I-II |
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Mid-Year Exam |
- 4 short stories - The Merchant of the Venice: Acts I-III |
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Second Term |
Test |
The Merchant of Venice |
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Test |
12 set poems & 1 unseen poem |
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SBA |
SBA outline/ proposal |
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Final Exam |
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - The Merchant of Venice - 6 short stories |
F.6
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First Term |
Test |
Vertigo |
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Test |
All short stories |
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Test |
15 set poems & 1 unseen poem |
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Final Exam |
The entire HKDSE syllabus |
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Content Area Reading List
Poetry
Abbs, Peter and John Richardson. The Forms of Poetry: a practical study guide for
English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,1990.
Bloom, Harold. The Art of Reading Poetry. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2004.
Heaney, Seamns and Ted Hughes ed. The Rattle Bag. London: Faber and Faber,1982.
McRae, John. The Language of Poetry. London: Routledge, 1998.
Padel, Ruth. 52 Ways of looking at a Poem. London: Vintage Books, 2002.
Strand, Mark and Eavan Boland. The Making of a Poem. London: W.W. Norton &
Company, 2001.
Novel (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
Bailey, James. Muriel Spark’s Early Fiction: Literary Subversion and Experiments with Form.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021.
Bower, Anne L. “The Narrative Structure of Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.”
The Midwest Quarterly, 31, 4, Summer 1990, pp. 448.
Carruthers, Gerald and MclIvanney, Liam, editors. The Cambridge Companion to Scottish
Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Gardiner, Michael and Maley,Willy. The Edinburgh Companion to Muriel Spark. Edinburgh:
Edinburgh University Press, 2010.
Jeffares, A. N. and Bushrui, Suheil, editors. York Notes on The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
Beirut: Longman & York Press, 1995.
Mullan, John. How Novels Work. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Robb, David S. Muriel Spark’s “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” (Scotnotes). Association for
Scottish Literary Studies, 1999.
Novel (The Great Gatsby)
Bruccoli, Matthew. Ed. New Essays on The Great Gatsby. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1985.
Chambers, John B. The Novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald. London: MacMillan, 1989.
Eble, Kenneth. F. Scott Fitzgerald. New York: Twayne Publishers Inc., 1963.
Hindus, Milton. F. Scott Fitzgerald: An Introduction and Interpretation. New York: Holt,
Rinehart and Winston Inc., 1968.
Kazin, Alfred. Ed. F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Man and His Work. New York: Collier MacMillan
Publishers, 1974.
Mizener, Arthur. Ed. F. Scott Fitzgerald. New Jersey: Prentice Hall Inc., 1963.
Piper, Henry Dan. Fitzgerald’s The great Gatsby: The Novel, the Critics, the Background.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1970.
Way, Brian. F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Art of Social Fiction. London: Edward Arnold, 1980.
Short Story
Bell, James Scott. Write Great Fiction: Plot & Structure. Ohio: Writer’s Digest Books,
2004.
Gardner, John. The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers. New York: Vintage
Books, 1991.
Gioia, Dana and R.S. Gwynn. The Art of the Short Story. New York: Pearson Longman,
2006.
Gwynn, R.S. Fiction – A Pocket Anthology. New York: Pearson Education, Inc., 2009.
Kempton, Gloria. Write Great Fiction: Dialogue. Ohio: Writer’s Digest Books, 2004.
Knight, Damon. Creating Short Fiction: the Classic Guide to Writing Short Fiction.
New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1997.
Kress, Nancy. Elements of Fiction Writing: Beginnings, Middles & Ends. Ohio: Writer’s
Digest Books, 1993.
Kress, Nancy. Write Great Fiction: Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint. Ohio: Writer’s
Digest Books, 2005.
Noble, William. Elements of Fiction Writing: Conflict, Action & Suspense. Ohio:
Writer’s Digest Books, 1994.
Rozelle, Ron. Write Great Fiction: Description & Setting. Ohio: Writer’s Digest Books,
2005.
Play (The Merchant of Venice)
Bailey, Amanda. "Shylock and the slaves: Owing and owning in The Merchant of Venice."
Shakespeare Quarterly, vol. 62, no.1, 2011, pp. 1-24.
Ludwig, Carlos Roberto. "Is The Merchant of Venice a Comedy or a Tragicomedy?" Letras de
Hoje , vol. 56, no.1, 2021.
Lupton, Julia Reinhard. "Exegesis, Mimesis, and the Future of Humanism in The Merchant of
Venice". Religion & Literature, vol.32, no.2, 2000, pp. 123-139.
Newman, Karen. "Portia's Ring: Unruly Women and Structures of Exchange in The Merchant
of Venice." Shakespeare Quarterly, vol. 38, no.1, 1987, pp. 19-33.
Spiller, Elizabeth A. "From Imagination to Miscegenation: Race and Romance in
Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice”. Renaissance Drama, vol.29, 1998, pp. 137-164.
Willson, Michael J. "View of Justice in Shakespeare's the Merchant of Venice and Measure
for Measure." Notre Dame Law Review, vol. 70, No. 3, 1994, pp. 695.
Film
Bergan, Ronald. Film. London: Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2006.
Giannetti, Louis. Understanding Movies. 12th ed. New York: Allyn & Bacon, 2010.
Hunt, Robert Edgar, John Marland and Steven Rawle. Basics Film-making: the language
of film. USA: AVA Publishing SA, 2010.
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