CSEC English B 2023-2027 Texts, Poems, Short Stories

TEXTS PRESCRIBED FOR THE JUNE 2023 – JANUARY 2027 EXAMINATIONS ARE AS FOLLOWS:

DRAMA

Two Questions will be set:

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Anansi by Alistaire Campbell

POETRY

Selection of Poems from A World of Poetry for CXC Hazel Simmons-McDonald and (New Edition) Mark McWatt Poems Prescribed for the JUNE 2023 – JANUARY 2027 Examinations are as follows:

1. An African Thunderstorm -David Rubadiri

2. Once Upon a Time -Gabriel Okara

3. Birdshooting Season -Olive Senior

4. West Indies, U.S.A. -Stewart Brown

5. Sonnet Composed Upon Westminster Bridge- William Wordsworth

6. A Lesson for this Sunday- Derek Walcott

7. The Woman Speaks to the Man who has employed Her Son- Lorna Goodison

8. It is the Constant Image of Your Face -Dennis Brutus

9. Landscape Painter, Jamaica Vivian Virtue

10. A Stone’s Throw -Elma Mitchell

11. Test Match Sabina Park -Stewart Brown

12. Death be Not Proud -John Donne

13. Dreaming Black Boy -James Berry

14. My Parents -Stephen Spender

15. Dulce et Decorum Est Wilfred Owen

16. This is the Dark Time, My Love- Martin Carter

17. Ol’Higue- Mark McWatt

18. Mirror -Sylvia Plath

19. South -Kamau Brathwaite

20. Little Boy Crying -Mervyn Morris

*The highlighted poems are the poems that have been added to the syllabus.

PROSE FICTION

For the Life of Laetitia by Merle Hodge
Animal Farm by George Orwell

SHORT STORY

This selection of short stories is from A World of Prose for CXC David Williams and
(New Edition) Hazel Simmons-McDonald Short Stories Prescribed for the JUNE 2013 – JANUARY 2027 Examinations are as follows:

1. The Two Grandmothers -Olive Senior

2. What Happened? – Austin Clarke

3. Emma- Carolyn Cole

4. The Man of the House -Frank O’Connor

5. Blood Brothers -John Wickham

6. Raymond’s Run – Tony Cade Bambara

7. Mint Tea – Christine Craig

8. Berry- Langston Hughes

9. Mom Luby and the Social Worker -Kristin Hunter

10. To Da-duh, in Memoriam -Paule Marshall