Teaching Staff in 2024-2025:

• Ms. Sze Fong (Panel Head)
• Ms. Huang Zifei Jocelyn
• Mr. Paul James Cowden
• Mr. Yu Wan Yui

 

Course Objectives:

In 2024-2025, Language Arts is established as part of the core school-based curriculum for all Form 1 and Form 2 students.  Through taking up the subject, students are exposed to an array of writing genres and engaged in lively classroom discussions.  The training involved would help them to use the English language more proficiently in order to communicate ideas, which in turn contributes to enhanced reading & communication skills, critical thinking, cultural understanding, personal growth and academic prowess. 

 

Texts & Topics:

Poetry

Imagery, persona & narrative voice, rhyme & rhythm, alliteration, simile & metaphor, personification, reading of assigned poems and creating one's own pieces

Short Story

• Characterization, setting
• Seventh Grade by Gary Soto
• The Landlady by Roald Dahl
• The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

Play

• Dialogues, role-playing
• The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Film

The School of Rock (2003)

Novel

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley