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