GRADE 11 EXAMINATIONS

November 2018

Advanced Programme English

Examiner: M. Antrobus Moderators: G.Scott/P. Ashwell

Time: 3 hours 300 marks

PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY.

1. This paper consists of 3 pages.

2. Please rule a line on the right hand side of your paper to aid with the marking process.
3. Please read questions carefully.
4. You may answer the questions in whatever order you wish, but number answers exactly as the
questions are numbered.
5. Each answer should take the form of a rigorously argued and thoroughly substantiated essay. There is
no prescribed length for the set essays, only an expectation that you argue with accuracy and insight
about the texts that you have read and that you aim to bring your own voice strongly to the fore in
your essays.
6. It is in your own interest to write legibly and present your work neatly.

QUESTION 1 (texts – novel and film)

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This question requires you to refer closely to TWO texts from each of the TWO genres (prose [novel],
drama, film) you have studied: i.e., four texts in total. (You may refer to more than two texts from
each of the two genres you have studied.)

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.” 

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Consider how the texts you have read (or watched) allowed you to explore the idea of truth.

Remember to refer to the theme: ‘The danger of a single story’

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QUESTION 2 (poetry)

In this question, you must refer to AT LEAST TWO SCHOOLS OF POETRY and AT LEAST
THREE POEMS from each school (that you have studied in your AP course).

 Mark Strand 

So You Say

It is all in the mind, you say, and has

nothing to do with happiness.
The coming of cold,
the coming of heat, the mind has all the time in the world.

You take my arm and say something will happen,

something unusual for which we were always prepared,
like the sun arriving after a day in Asia,
like the moon departing after a night with us.

Refer to the poem above. Carefully consider how the poems you have studied (from the two schools of
poetry you have studied) may speak of ‘something unusual for which we were always prepared’.

• Some reference to, and understanding of, Strand’s poem is required.

• While your answer should concentrate on the prescribed poems you have chosen to analyse, you should
use Strand’s poem as a starting point. Do not be concerned that Strand’s text does not form part of the
schools of poetry you have studied.

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 QUESTION 3 (general reading)

In answering this question, you are expected to consider and make direct reference to FOUR
substantial fictional works (novels and/or collections of short stories) that you have read
independently.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
–Oscar Wilde

By referring to the texts that you have read independently, decide which books have been worth
reading ‘over and over again’. What makes them valuable?
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