Literature in Jurong West Secondary School

I will be teaching literature to 3 seconday two express classes. The Sec 2s are doing The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, the Sec 1s are doing Charlotte's Web and the Sec 3s are doing Telltale: 11 Stories.

The secondary one students are doing a dramatised piece of the text. I think they are having fun doing that. As for the sec 2s, they have started writing in essay style format (P.E.E.L and all), which is very impressive. After the end of term two, the students will be reading Little Ironies. There are only 2 periods (60 minutes) dedicated to literature every week.

This is the first year that the school is offering literature as an O'level subject to secondary 3 students. I have not observed any upper sec lit classes. I heard that it is a small cohort of less than 20 students.