What is the difference between story and plot? What is the difference between plot summary and plot interpretation? How do you analyze the relationship between the main plot and a subplot? What are the purposes of literary elements and literary techniques? What are the writer’s literary devices and reader’s literary devices? How do you recognize and appreciate ways in which writer use language, structure and style to achieve his intended effects on the reader? How do you shift from mere appreciation of a literary text to critical literary appreciation? How do you engage in literary analysis & what is the purpose? What is the difference between topic and theme and how do you arrive at the theme? How do you compare the theme and the moral message? How do you develop an interpretation of a work of literature (drama, poetry and prose) and what is the purpose? How do you present critical appreciations or your individual responses to literary texts composed in different forms and in different periods and cultures? How do you know your individual response is valid? What are the differences between Critical Literary Appreciation, Literary Criticism, and Literary Theory? Why should there be a Literary theory at all?
Cambridge O Level “Literature in English” [2010] For examination in June and November 2017, 2018 and 2019 4.1 Syllabus aims The syllabus aims to develop the ability of learners to: • communicate accurately, appropriately and effectively in speech and writing • understand and respond imaginatively to what they hear, read and experience • enjoy literature and appreciate its contribution to […]
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Why-study-literature by Dr. Sarah Dillon In her latest research project, Dr Sarah Dillon, a lecturer in the Faculty of English at Cambridge, reveals how an appreciation of literature can influence scientific thought and practice At a time when university funding is being cut on both sides of the Atlantic, every academic discipline is now faced with the task of justifying […]
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Designing a Learning Programme “The ultimate validation of a curriculum lies in its results; that is, did it help students achieve the desired outcomes?” Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe, Schooling by Design (2007)The Learning Programme has been designed in line with R. W. Tyler’s four classic tenets “Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instructions.”The 1st of the 4 principles requires defining […]
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Identifying Learning difficulties and introducing remedial measures. (i) The notes made by the teachers on the role play, presented in tabular form as given below. Observed non-verbal behaviour of students Teacher’s interpretation of the non-verbal behaviour Impact of the non-verbal behaviour on teaching/learning Wide eyes The learners are surprised; they found the matter astonishing. The learners will not have much […]
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Roles & responsibilities of a teacher by bunpeiris from B. UPUL N. PEIRIS .
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Teaching Future Tense: an alternative to “will” by bunpeiris Lesson: Our lesson is going to be a search for an alternative to “will” [Learners aren’t told yet]Learning Objective: [SMART]By the end of the lesson all learners will be able to make use of the future form of “going to” whenever it is more suitable than will/shall.[Learners aren’t told yet] Class: […]
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Develop Assessment Practices by bunpeiris Introduction It is important to have evidence of student learning during learning-teaching session as well as through follow up assignments & tests. As such it is necessary to develop, use and evaluate different methods of assessment in a learning –teaching session. Subject: English language Lesson: Phrasal Verbs – Follow up Assignment 1 of Unit 1 […]
Read moreDevelop Resources to Support Learning Unit by bunpeirisObjective: At the end of the lesson all learners will be able to use the 7 prepositions of location, namely, under, between, next to, beside, opposite, in front of & behind in given context SESSION 1: ENGAGE: SLIDE SHOW [5 Minutes] UNDER The class is divided into 2 groups & each group take […]
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Learning & teaching strategies used in literature written by bunpeiris Meeting the needs of learners in planning teaching and learning The teachers may avoid possible adverse effects resulting from the collision between the teaching style of the teacher and learning style of the learner by making way for the 21st century learner-centered methodology. The learners do thrive, flower and bloom […]
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bunpeiris Random Thoughts 22nd May 2016 We are all alone. By bunpeiris We are alone. We cannot know, and we cannot be known. We have been suffering all alone. As if everything is honky dory, we carry on laughin And we hang on blind and deaf, all alone They say they aren’t our servants. They cut a cake for a kattadiya in […]
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Chinua Achebe’s Times Engagement and Estrangement Chinua Achebe and Friends at Umuahia: The Making of a Literary Elite, by Terri Ochiagha Willy Maley on an ‘Eton of the East’ in Nigeria that inadvertently inspired a generation of writers At a time when UK higher education managers talk of “internationalisation” and “world-changing research” while limiting participation and undermining the arts and […]
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The Literary Canon Vs Barbaric ignorance by bunpeiris In the beginning there was the word: the word that spreads as bush fire on this bloody day is not confined to a little known island in the east, but all around the world. A minority community, which has been unjustly subjected to so called racial discrimination, at last, being at the […]
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Malala Yousafzai Education Nobel Prize for Peace Malala Yousafzai, Oslo, 10 December 2014. Bismillah hir rahman ir rahim. In the name of God, the most merciful, the most beneficent. Your Majesties, Your royal highnesses, distinguished members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Dear sisters and brothers, today is a day of great happiness for me. I am humbled that the Nobel […]
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The Great Sinhalese Novel, or The Digital Divine Diary of God Vishnu by bunpeiris Chapter 1 “Sri Lanka’s King Sihabahu’s son, Vijaya from Lal country has reached Lanka, together with seven hundred followers. Lord of gods, my Faith will be established in Lanka. Therefore, protect him along with his followers & also Sri Lanka diligently” My lord Sakka, the lord of the […]
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