O/A Lev Eng Language & Literature

Studying Literature in Bangladesh is often seen as a waste of time and energy. But those who love reading and discussing about lives not lived directly under the skin, only they know how wonderful an experience Literature provides. Prospective A and O level students of English Literature will be able to find all kind of online assistance through this blog-page. While writing this post in August 2022, we have four recent graduates from our class. 
  1. Bianca = completed AS and A2 English Literature (Edexcel) and received "A"
  2. Aminah = completed O level English Literature (Edexcel) and received "A"
  3. Tananze = completed O level English Literature (Edexcel) and received "A"
  4. Zawad = completed O level English Literature (Edexcel) and received "A"
Our current O Level English Literature Students are:
  1. Amrita = O level English Literature (Edexcel); exam in May 2023
  2. Ifrit = O level English Literature (Edexcel); exam in January 2023
In July, 2020 our O' level Literature Class has welcomed Sadia and Sabia. Both are very much interested in Astronomy and I have recently worked a few poems based on astronomy. I have also promised them to send my giant book on Astronomy very soon. Ifrit should get a special thanks for inviting Sadia and Sabia to our O' level Literature team. I am currently working with Sadia, Ifrit, and Sabia on an abridged version of Pride and Prejudice. Soon we shall move to the Original edition. 

In the past years we have worked on the following works:
Learn English Through Story - My Ántonia by Willa Cather (Book 1 ...
  1. The Lowland 
  2. My Antonia My Antonia Link
  3. Great Gatsby [My Choice] GG Link
  4. Timepass - Basma is truly engrossed in reading this non-fiction. I will try to get a few photocopies for many of the interested readers in the class. 
  5. Raiyan is working on "Three Shakespearean Tragedies" - but I also wanted him to work on Dickens's Great Expectations.
From 29th June, O Level Language Class 
focused on the following items in Pride & Prejudice:
    • Discussion of how the Males keep their social identity through their association of Money and Property.
    • Compare the TWO characters of Darcy and Gatsby. We also compared Elizabeth and Daisy. We talked about how Daisy is unworthy of a dream as big as Gatsby's.
    • We also tried to understand Elizabeth's [Pride & Prejudice] attitude towards her new status as a wife of a wealthy man. 
Apart from the above we talked about the following:
    • The Reading Items students are working through.
    • Some of these are: 
      • Life of Pi [Afrida]
      • Hunger Games [Afrida and Tanima]
      • Matilda [Abrar]
      • The Time Traveler's Wife [Asmita]
      • Sense and Sensibility [Asmita]
      • Oscar Wilde [Asmita]
      • My Antonia [Tanima]
      • Greek Mythology by Edith Hamilton [Tanima] 
      • David Copperfield [Rafiuzzaman]
      • Harry Potter [Secretly Everyone!]
We decided that we will work on THREE Shakespearean Plays. First everyone will have to read the summary and Plot-outline, recall the characters. 

[All these from  http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net ]. Then we will go through FILM version of the individual Plays.
    • The Tempest 
    • A Mid Summer Night's Dream
    • Much Ado About Nothing

27 June, 2017


Zuhayr and Raimi are both requested to work on the assigned Bengali language books. I will be uploading a few more titles by today and tomorrow. Please also notify me when you will be coming tomorrow for the class.

25 Feb, 2015

RMM is requested to access the following link and read three poems:
  1. La belle dame sans merci  [page 17-19]
  2. Ode to a Nightingale [Page 28-31]
  3. Ode to Autumn [Page 32-33]
  4. Link to Keats' Poetry 
Note that the second poem is one of the most important poem in the History of English Poetry. 

RMM is requested to make a choice of 3 titles - better if it is a mixture of Novel and Play - finish these in 9 Days. Suggestions: My Antonia, The Tempest, Great Gatsby. All these have several versions in FILMS - but it is strongly suggested that you work on the text first.

Make sure that EACH Play - must not take more than the performance length - that is it must be between 2 - 4 hours.



2 comments:

  1. Hi, do you guys have new books on young adult? i mean some supernatural novels if you suggest?

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  2. The list on this page is clearly towards the Classics. Classics can be read by anyone with appropriate linguistic preparation. I am sure that there are plenty of websites who can suggest young adults novels. However, my personal choice is Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I hope you will enjoy the Original Version.

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