Prescribed poems and short stories for the CSec Examinations

Prescribed Poems for the 2012-2014 Examinations

*  Contemplation upon Flowers – Henry King

*  Once Upon a Time – Gabriel Okara

*  Forgive My Guilt – Robert Coffin

*  West Indies, U.S.A. – Stewart Brown

*  Sonnet Composed Upon Westminster Bridge – William Wordsworth

*  Orchids – Hazel Simmons-McDonald

*  The Woman Speaks to the Man who has Employed her Son – Lorna Goodison

*  It is the Constant Image of your Face – Dennis Brutus

*  God’s Grandeur – Gerard Manley Hopkins

*  A Stone’s Throw – Elma Mitchell

*  Test Match Sabina Park – Stewart Brown

*  Theme for English B – Langston Hughes

*  Dreaming Black Boy – James Berry

*  Epitaph – Dennis Scott

*  Dulce et Decorum Est – Wilfred Owen

*  This is the Dark Time, My Love – Martin Carter

*  Ol’Higue – Mark McWatt

*  ‘Le Loupgarou’ – Derek Walcott

*  South – Kamau Braithwaite

*  To an Athlete Dying Young – A.E. Housman

*McWatt, M., Simmons-McDonald, H (Ed) (2005). A World of Poetry for CXC Oxford Heinemann Educational Publishers (pp. 177-78)

Short Stories Prescribed for the 2012-2014 Examinations

* Blackout – Roger Mais

*  Shabine – Hazel Simmons-McDonald

* Emma – Carolyn Cole

*  The Man of the House – Frank O’Connor

*  Septimus – John Wickham

*  The Day the World Almost Came to an End – Pearl Crayton

*  The Boy Who Loved Ice Cream – Olive Senior

*  Berry – Langston Hughes

*  Mom Luby and the Social Worker – Kristin Hunter

* To Da-duh, in Memoriam – Paule Marshall