English Language Syllabus- PMR and SPM

LIST OF TEXTS FOR THE LITERATURE COMPONENT IN THE

ENGLISH LANGUAGE SYLLABUS

FORM 1
POEMS
1. Life’s Brief Candle by William Shakespeare
2. The Dead Crow by A. Samad Said
3. The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W.B. Yeats
SHORT STORIES
1. The Pencil by Ali Majod
2. How Dalat Got Its Name by Heidi Munan
3. Of Bunga Telur and Bally Shoes by Che Husna Azhari
(Learners are to study all of the above poems and short stories)

FORM 2
NOVELS
1. Potato People by Angela Wright
2. Robinson Crusoe by Danial Defoe
3. Phantom of The Opera by Gaston Leroux
(Learners are to select one of the above novels for study)

FORM 3
NOVELS
1. The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope Hopkins
2. Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde by R.L Stevenson
(Learners are to select one of the above novels for study)
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FORMS 4 & 5
POEMS
1. If by Rudyard Kipling
2. Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare
3. Si Tenggang’s Homecoming by Muhammad Hj. Salleh
4. Monsoon History by Shirley Lim
5. The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
6. There’s Been A Death in the Opposite House by Emily Dickinson

SHORT STORIES
1. The Lotus Eater by Somerset Maugham
2. The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
3. The Drover’s Wife by Henry Lawson
4. The Sound Machine by Roald Dahl
5. Looking for a Rain God by Bessie Head

(Learners are to study all of the above poems and short stories)
NOVELS
1. Jungle of Hope by Keris Mas
2. The Return by K.S Maniam
3. The Pearl by John Steinbeck
(Learners are to select one of the above novels for study)