Literature in Boon Lay Secondary School

I am currently teaching Literature to Secondary One Express and Normal Academic students, as well as Literature for Secondary Two Normal Academic. The students are using The Clay Marble for their text. I am also teaching Secondary Three Literature Elective. There is only 1 pure Literature class for Secondary Four, and none for Secondary Three. Generally the students here have a very weak command of English, so often I have to explain the vocabulary used in the poems and texts in detail first before actually being able to go on to the themes. My CT spends a lot of effort on going through the terms first using the visualizer before talking about the themes. Not too much group work is done in his classes as well, but rather there is more use of videos to let the students get an idea of what the texts are about. As the students’ command of English is quite weak, more time also has to be spent to explain literary terms to them. On the bright side, the upper secondary students who take literature choose to do so, and therefore they are more interested in learning what me and my CT have to offer.