Thursday, November 22, 2012

Sample Essay: Section A - Spirit of the Keris (Short Stories)

Send me your request via email if you'd like a sample of the above on The Matsumoto  Light Horse Artillery by Syed Adam Aljafri.

Friday, November 16, 2012

Sample essay: Wide Sargasso Sea

I have written a sample essay on Jean Rhys' novel, Wide Sargasso Sea. Please send me an email for a copy. Do remember to tell me your full name, school you attend and other texts studied.

Monday, July 30, 2012

Looking for 'Malaysian Short Stories'?

You can purchase the book at Silverfish Books in Bangsar or order it online at http://www.silverfishbooks.com/buybooks/
Price: RM29.90

Silverfish books, 28-1 Jalan Telawi, Bangsar Baru, 
59100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 
tel: (603) 2284 4837, fax: (603) 2284 4839 
email: info@silverfishbooks.com

Thursday, July 19, 2012

STPM 2012/13 (Modular) SHORT STORIES: Ratnamuni by K.S.Maniam

To participate in a discussion of K.S.Maniam's RATNAMUNI, please send a request via email.

Monday, June 25, 2012

Paper 1 (Modular) Study the poems

NOTE: The written examination for Paper 1 will be held in the first week of November 2012 Click on the title of the poem to read.

SONNET 75 by Edmund Spenser
Read an analysis of Spenser's poem here
SONNET 73 by William Shakespeare
A POISON TREE by William Blake
The SOLITARY REAPER by William Wordsworth
SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY by Lord Byron, George Gordon
LOVE'S PHILOSOPHY by Percy Bysshe Shelley
ODE TO AUTUMN by John Keats
MY LAST DUCHESS by Robert Browning
A BIRD CAME DOWN by Emily Dickinson
I LOOK INTO MY GLASS by Thomas Hardy
Read and listen to Thomas Hardy's poem AT TEA
WHEN YOU ARE OLD by W.B. Yeats
MORE LINKS WILL BE POSTED LATER

Friday, February 17, 2012

STPM 2012/2013: New Syllabus & Specifications

Students who start Lower Six in 2012 will be studying the new syllabus under the new modular system.
For full details, please go to http://www.mpm.edu.my/web/guest/sukatan-pelajaran-stpm-modular


NOTE:

UPPER SIX STUDENTS TAKING THE STPM EXAM IN 2012 ARE NOT AFFECTED. THEY WILL BE THE LAST BATCH OF STUDENTS STUDYING THE OLD SYLLABUS.

Wednesday, February 01, 2012

ONLY FOR STPM 2012 CANDIDATES IN UPPER SIX

STPM - LITERATURE IN ENGLISH SYLLABUS

Content
Paper 1: Shakespeare and Other British Writers
(i) Shakespeare, Hamlet (Arden)
(ii) Shakespeare, As You Like It (Arden)
(iii) John Keats, Selected Poems and Letters of Keats (Heinemann)
(iv) Thomas Hardy, Selected Shorter Poems of Thomas Hardy (Macmillan)
(v) Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre (Wordsworth Classics)
(vi) Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (Penguin Classics)

Paper 2: New Literatures in English
(i) “Spirit of the Keris”: A Selection of Malaysian Short Stories and Poems (Maya Press Sdn. Bhd.)
(ii) Nissim Ezekiel, Collected Poems 1952-1988 (Oxford Indian Paperback)
(iii) Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (Penguin Books)
(iv) Buchi Emecheta, Kehinde (Heinemann)



Examination Format

Consists of two papers:
Paper 1: Shakespeare and Other British Writers (3 hours)

There are four sections:
Section A: Critical Appreciation.
Section B: Shakespeare’s Plays.
Section C: Poetry.
Section D: Novels and short stories.

Paper 2: New Literatures in English (3 hours)
There are three sections
Section A: Critical Appreciation.
Section B: Malaysia.
Section C: Indian Sub-Continent, West Indies and Africa.



The SYLLABUS SPECIFICATIONS are available from the Malaysian Examinations Syndicate website. CLICK HERE