Teaching the Unseen in Bukit View Sec

One of the main aims is to ensure that the students enjoy poetry and prose so that barriers towards the Unseen are broken down. Texts selected will be varied with themes of war, love, teenage years and even urbanization. Besides hard copies of texts, some material(for poetry) is also garnered from the Youtube- with lyrics of songs by Bob Dylan and Simon and Garfunkel. Lyrics are shown without music initially. Discussion follows on how the writer crafts his words to his purpose via imagery, rhyme, beat etc. For the prose section, texts from various short stories, novels and past years’ school papers are chosen to highlight the writer’s use of suspense, contrast, tension, and how the dialogue in the text helps us to form the character. One problem we face is that the O level Elective Lit results do not state how students actually scored in the Lit paper or the Social Studies component.