UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS IGCSE LITERATURE IN ENGLISH: SYLLABUS 0486 NOTES FOR TEACHERS ON STORIES SET FOR STUDY FROM STORIES OF OURSELVES: THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT STORIES IN ENGLISH FOR EXAMINATION IN JUNE AND NOVEMBER 2010‚ 2011 AND 2012 CONTENTS Introduction: How to use these notes 1. The Signalman Charles Dickens 2. The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman 3. How It Happened Arthur Conan Doyle
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Badheka‚Gijubhai ( 1885 -1939 ) Girijashanker Badheka‚ generally known as Gijubhai‚ the most outstanding personality in the field of pre-primary education‚ was born to Bhagwanji and Sm. Kashiba of Vala in Saurashtra at Chittal 9Saurashtra) in the house of his maternal grandfather on 15 November 1885. He had his early education at a primary school at Vala and later passed the Matriculation from Bhavnagar around 1905. He joined the Shamlals College‚ but had to leave his studies incomplete and
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The last templar is a suspense‚ mystery novel written by Raymond Khoury in 2005. The book was his debut work and was on the New York Times bestseller list for 22 months. The medieval city of acre stands in flames as the enemy forces occupy the city. Only a small band of templar knights manage to escape the city on a ship with a secret destination. The ship however disappear without a trace. The knights also carried a mysterious chest with them who they were given to by their master‚ the leader of
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Browning Tells The Story- My Last Duchess Immediately Browning titles the story with a hint that suggests the story will describe ownership of one of many Duchess’. It also suggests through the name ’Duchess’ that it is coming from a royal background rather than simply saying ’woman’ or ’wife’. The story is about a Duke who decides to remove his wife from his life out of paranoia and jealousy‚ by murdering her. Browning is the writer and the listener‚ the Duke is the speaker and the story is told in a
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literature‚ setting is an essential part of a story. Setting is the time and place where the story takes place. It also can create a mood or feeling in the story. In the stories “Soldier’s Home‚” by Ernest Hemingway‚ “A Rose for Emily‚” by William Faulkner and “Eveline‚” by James Joyce‚ the all show how setting was essential to the stories. Setting was essential in “Soldier’s Home‚” because it took place after World War I‚ and it helped to create his problem. In “A Rose for Emily‚” setting was essential
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Do you believe that a place can mean something more? The story through the tunnel talks about a little boy that goes to a beach with his mother‚ where he discovers a tunnel that at the end of the summer will mean something more. In through the tunnel‚ Doris Lessing demonstrates that a setting can influence a character‚ how the setting can also create a conflict and how imagery help us to imagine better the story. When a little boy goes to the beach with his mother he sees a promontory so he decides
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SOLAR TEA LEAF CUTTING MACHINE SYNOPSIS Generally the cutting and plate are made in plastics. The plastics are harmful and it has many disadvantages to us. By naturally we get leaves‚ Leafs by using this we can make cups. It is very cheap and it does not have any chemical effects. The Leaf cup is made by a solar tea leaf cutting machine. The machine is operated by the solar power cutting making system. By using this we can produce cutting at high production rate. By using different shape
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book ‘Mao’s last dancer’ retells his amazing story of survival‚ courage and the battle one man had to prove for his worth. Li Cunxin’s book is an emotional yet inspiring book about an ordinary boys dream to become a world class dancer. We join Li on his emotional voyage to achieve his life long dream. Situated in the time of “Emperor Mao’s Communist regime”‚ the author positions the audience to feel sympathetic towards his experiences‚ the Construction of the setting in which the story takes place
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Crucial Role of the Setting John Updike’s short story “A&P” is about the main character Sammy working in an A&P grocery store in the middle of a northern town in Boston in the summer. In Sammy’s eyes it is colorless‚ boring and free from any excitement. It is a very mundane job for him until one day three girls walk in to the store wearing nothing but their bathing suits. It causes quite a stir within the store attendants and ends with Sammy quitting his job. If the events in this story were to take place
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Destiny Cheeks English Setting Report Mr.Snyder The story that i have decided to write about is called “Lore Dublon”. It’s based on a true story about an 11 year old girl who had turned 12 on August 26 . She was a jew‚ and since jews were treated very poorly in Nazi‚ a city in Germany‚they would be sent to concentration camps. The certain camp she had been taken to and killed was called “ Auschwitz concentration camp” in
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