Grade 12 literature Study guide

English home language

Grade 12

literature

Study guide

1

Foreword

Thank you to all the English Home Language teachers from across the country for your input.

The main idea behind this guide is to provide a question bank for learners, as there are no

previous papers on the new literature texts. For that reason as well, I have elected to only use

the new texts as there is a lot available in the form of previous papers on the internet.

I would like to make this a growing guide to which we continually add questions and ideas.

The guide has been structured into sections that cover the poetry, novels and the dramas, with

the answers at the back of the guide.

The unseen poetry has also been added.

Thank you to Liezel Vrey, Karin Petersen and Karen Steyn for assisting with the proof reading

and editing.

We tried as far as possible to structure everything into the same format, but because everyone

does not use the same program, there are some problems with the layout. Personally I type all

docs on Microsoft Word 2007. Copying from Pdf files also posed a problem, but we tried.

SOME TIPS FOR SETTING A GRADE 12 PAPER

?

Follow the exam guidelines as set out by the department of education:

- A paper 2 MUST consist of FOUR prescribed poems

- ONE UNSEEN poem ¨C CONTEXTUAL QUESTION ONLY

- An essay question for Novel and Drama

- A Contextual Section for Novel and drama

- Look at the layout for previous paper 2s as the format HAS changed in

the past few years.

- Papers are typed in ARIAL 12 Font

- Although there is no set rule, one mark questions seldom occur (if ever ¨C

check previous papers) in paper 2.

The exam guidelines and rubrics form part of this study guide.

Linda Holm

2

INDEX

POETRY (p 5 ¨C 27)

Essay

TITLE

The Garden of Love

The Zulu Girl

Vultures

The First Day After the War

Motho Ke Motho Ka Batho Babang

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly

beyond

Remember

An African Thunderstorm

QUESTIONS

1.1

1.2, 1.3, 1.4

1.5, 1.6

1.7

1.8

1.9,

PAGE

5

6

7

8

9

MEMO

77

77

78

80

80

10

10

11

80

81

82

QUESTIONS

2.1 (2.1.1 ¨C 2.1.6)

2.2 (2.2.1 ¨C 2.2.4)

2.3 (2.3.1 ¨C 2.3.6)

2.4 (2.4.1 ¨C 2.4.3)

2.5 (2.5.1 ¨C 2.5.2)

2.6 (2.6.1 ¨C 2.6.4)

2.7 (2.7.1 ¨C 2.7.2)

2.8 (2.8.1 ¨C 2.8.4)

2.9 (2.9.1 ¨C 2.9.5)

2.10 (2.10.1 ¨C 2.10.2)

2.11 (2.11.1)

PAGE

12

14

15

18

18

19

21

22

23

25

26

MEMO

85

87

88

91

93

94

96

97

99

102

103

QUESTIONS

PAGE

28

29

30

31

31

32

33

34

35

36

37

37

MEMO

104

104

105

105

105

106

106

107

107

107

108

108

1.10, 1.11

1.12

Contextual questions

TITLE

First Day After the War

Remember

Funeral Blues

Felix Randal

An African Thunderstorm

Vultures

The Garden of Love

A Hard Frost

The Zulu Girl

Motho Ke Motho Ka Bathu Babang

An African Elegy

Unseen poetry

TITLE

Death is nothing at all

An African Heartbeat

Today I do not love my country

Visiting Room

How not to stop

The Shipwreck

Childhood in Heidelberg

Magnolia Clinic

The Right Word

My African Home

Portrait of a Machine

Perceptions

3.1

3.2 (no questions)

3.3

3.4

3.5

3.6

3.7

3.8

3.9

3.10

3.11

3.12

3

NOVEL

Life of Pi

TITLE

Essay question

Contextual questions

QUESTIONS

PAGE

38

39

MEMO

109

114

QUESTIONS

PAGE

48

49

MEMO

121

127

QUESTIONS

PAGE

60

60

MEMO

133

135

4.1 ¨C 4.5

5.1 ¨C 5.5

Picture of Dorian Gray

TITLE

Essay question

Contextual questions

6.1 ¨C 6.7

7.1 ¨C 7.7

DRAMA

Hamlet

TITLE

Essay question

Contextual questions

8.1 ¨C 8.7

9.1 ¨C 9.7

NO questions on ¡®Othello¡¯ or ¡®The Crucible¡¯ were included as there are ample resources available.

4

Poetry

QUESTION 1:

POETRY ESSAY

NOTE THAT THE POETRY ESSAY IS 250 ¨C 300 WORDS AND IS MARKED WITH THE

POETRY RUBRIC INCLUDED IN THIS STUDY GUIDE.

THE GARDEN OF LOVE

¨C

William Blake

I went to the Garden of Love,

And saw what I never had seen:

A Chapel was built in the midst,

Where I used to play on the green.

And the gates of this Chapel were shut,

And Thou shalt not. writ over the door;

So I turn'd to the Garden of Love,

That so many sweet flowers bore,

And I saw it was filled with graves,

And tomb-stones where flowers should be:

And Priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,

And binding with briars my joys & desires.

5

10

Question 1.1:

The poet seems to reflect in this poem, not only how things have changed since his childhood,

but also how something, like religion can change how life is lived.

With reference to the use of imagery, diction and structure, discuss the theme of nostalgia and

the despair in change.

Your response should take the form of a well-constructed essay of 250¨C300 words.

[10]

5

 ................
................

In order to avoid copyright disputes, this page is only a partial summary.

Google Online Preview   Download