First Term:
Week 1:
Review of last session’s work
a. Inspection of previous notebooks
b. Review of last term’s examination questions.
c. Holiday experiences: Implications for Literature.
Week 2:
Overview of Origin, Nature and Importance of Literature.
Week 3:
Review of Literary appreciation/ General Knowledge of Literature.
Weeks 4 – 6:
Review of ‘A Woman in Her Prime ’ /Reading of Selected African Poems.
Weeks 7 – 9:
Review of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies /Reading of selected non-African Poems.
Week 10:
Reading of selected Poems (continuation).
Week 11:
Revisions and Examinations.
Second Term:
Weeks 1 and 2:
Review of last term work and examination questions.
Additional reviews of literary devices, techniques and practices.
Week 3:
Analysis of Umeh’s Ambassadors of Poverty.
Week 4:
Analysis of Raleigh’s The soul’s Errand.
Week 5:
Fletcher’s Upon an Honest Man’s Fortune.
Weeks 6 and 7:
Reading of Konadu’s A Woman in her Prime.
a. Authors Background and title
b. Plot summary and analysis
c. Structure
d. Themes
e. Questions
Weeks 8 and 9:
Reading of Golding’s Lord of the Flies.
a. Authors Background and title
b. Plot summary and analysis
c. Structure
d. Themes
e. Questions
Weeks 10 and 11:
Recaps and Revisions.
Week 12:
Examination .
Third Term:
Weeks 1and 2:
Review of last term work and examination questions.
Additional reviews of literary devices, techniques and practices.
Weeks 3 – 6:
Reading, analysis and comments on William Golding’s Lord of the Flies.
a. Authors Background and title
b. Plot summary and analysis
c. Structure
d. Themes
e. Questions
Weeks 7 – 10:
Review and further comments/analysis of Femi Osofisan’s Women of Owu.
a. Authors Background and title
b. Plot summary and analysis
c. Structure
d. Themes
e. Questions and essay writing
Week 11:
Literary Appreciation
Week 12:
Revisions (Session and Term)
Week 13:
Session examinations.