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📘 Paper 1 – Functional Writing, Cloze Test & Oral Skills (60 Marks)

Functional Writing (20 marks):

• Write an investigative report as the secretary of the Peer Counselors’ club:

  • Investigate rising cases of indiscipline (absenteeism, bullying, exam malpractice)

  • Investigation should take one week

  • Include recommendations

  • Proper report format required (Title, Introduction, Method, Findings, Conclusion, Recommendations, Signing Off)

Cloze Test (10 marks):

• Complete a passage on Education and Autonomy, featuring:

  • Ultimate goal of education (intellectual and moral autonomy)

  • Submitting to genuine authority

  • History of child rearing

  • Parents making things easier for next generation

  • Showing love more openly

Oral Skills (30 marks):

• Poetry Analysis – Read “Sweet and Low” by Alfred Lord Tennyson

  • Features of oral poetry (repetition, alliteration, direct address, rhyme)

  • Performance techniques for the last line (smile, close eyes, stress content words, falling intonation, dramatic pause)

• Homophones – Barren/baron, bore/boar, mean/mien

• Intonation – Identify falling/rising intonation

• Sound Grouping – Identify word pronounced differently

• Public Speaking – Reasons why a talk was interesting

• Word Stress – Underline stressed part (appreciate, surprise)

• Telephone Etiquette – Identify shortcomings and correct responses

📗 Paper 2 – Comprehension, Literary Appreciation & Grammar (80 Marks)

Comprehension (20 marks):

• Read and answer questions on a passage about Digital Privacy and Cyberbullying

• Topics covered:

  • Why internet is integral (social media, online forums, messaging)

  • Types of personal information misused (location, phone numbers, photographs, school details)

  • Definition of cyberbullying

  • Difference from traditional bullying (any time, large audience)

  • Emotional effects (fear, embarrassment, isolation, loss of confidence)

  • Measures for safety (limit personal data, privacy settings, think critically, parent/teacher role, open communication)

  • Tone (critical, informative/advisory)

  • Vocabulary: integral, impersonate

Literary Appreciation – Excerpt (25 marks):

• Analyze an excerpt from Paul B. Vitta’s Fathers of Nations (Engineer Tahir)

• Key focus areas:

  • Where Tahir came from (University of Paris) and career (weapon development)

  • Why opponents were unhappy (leader ruled 20 years, not stepping down)

  • Why Tahir dismissed opponents (believed leader had right vision)

  • Character traits of Tahir (hopeful/optimistic, knowledgeable, determined)

  • Themes (hope/optimism, power, education)

  • Stylistic devices (local dialect, metaphor, hyperbole, rhetorical questions)

  • Twist of events (Al-Qaeda struck America, leader dismantled Fist of Allah)

  • Vocabulary: nationalized, recapture, ultimate

Poetry (20 marks):

• Analyze the poem “One”

• Key focus areas:

  • Ways speaker is unique (fingerprints, emotions, physical appearance, challenges)

  • Persona identification (person celebrating uniqueness)

  • What the poem is about (uniqueness/individuality)

  • Relevance of title (each individual is unique)

  • Stylistic devices (alliteration, enjambment, onomatopoeia, repetition)

  • Mood (celebratory/jubilant/joyful)

  • Meaning of specific lines

Grammar (15 marks):

• Direct speech transformation

• Sentence transformation (Little…, Hardly…)

• Question tags (won’t they?)

• Phrasal verbs (pulled up, held up, pass on)

• Word forms (bear → borne, anxious → anxiety, maintain → maintenance)

• Prepositions (from, of, of)

• Ambiguity (Visiting grandmothers can be so exciting)

📙 Paper 3 – Imaginative Composition & Set Text Essays (60 Marks)

Imaginative Composition (20 marks):

• Option A: Write a story to illustrate the saying: “Better late than never”

• Option B: Write a composition to show how students can avoid unrest in school

Compulsory Set Text – The Samaritan by John Lara (20 marks):

• Essay topic: “When corrupt leaders are exposed, they engage in acts of desperation that only make their situations worse.” (Focus on Mayor Mossi)

• Key points:

  • Stops launch – Argues App is misinformation; orders it stopped; realizes unstoppable

  • Buys newspapers – Orders Harvester to buy all newspapers; App continues exposing them

  • Convenes meeting – Fails to agree on supplementary budget; faces impeachment

  • Visits Nicole – Tries to make her delete posts; resorts to intimidation; exposed further

  • Arrests Nicole – Sends Bembe to arrest her; people turn up in court; higher authority gets interested

  • Exploits grain scandal – Tries to make Jaden play ball; exposes himself

  • Offers job – Rallies officials to offer Nicole DG position; she turns it down; they are arrested together

Optional Set Texts (20 marks) – Choose ONE:

Option A: Ghosts by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

• Essay topic: “War is something that should be avoided because it leaves behind serious effects especially for the survivors.”

• Key points:

  • Pensioners – Wait for dues; desperate, hungry, cursed

  • Vincent – Former driver; emaciated; shoe mending fails

  • Prof. Okoro – Estranged from family and friends; lost whole family

  • Physical change – Okoro looks different; “dried nut of a man”

  • Mourning – Nwoye mourns those who died; loss of daughter Zik

  • Property loss – Piano, graduation gown, ripped photos

  • Education collapse – Students buy grades; inept “greenhorns”

  • Services deteriorate – Bribery for services

Option B: Parliament of Owls by Adipo Sidang

• Essay topic: “Oyundi’s success in bringing about new political order in Parliament of Owls is a true testimony that unity of purpose can pay off.”

• Key points:

  • Oyundi, Osogo, Ochongorio – United against atrocities

  • Alliance with Ogila Nyakarondo – Borrows tricks

  • Rallies rebel owls – Iron Lady, straight eyed owl, feathered beak

  • Works with Teltel – Steals royal bead

  • Coronation – Invites all birds; unanimous declaration

Option C: An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro

• Essay topic: “In career growth and development, mentorship is key.”

• (Content points to be developed from the novel)

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