Senarai teks baharu komsas bahasa inggeris 2016

FORM FIVE

POEMS

A POISON TREE - SELECTED

1. A Poison Tree - William Blake
2. What happened to Lulu - Charles Causley

NOVEL
1. Sing to the Dawn - Minfong Ho
(Penang, Perak, Terengganu, Kelantan)

2. Dear Mr. Kilmer - Anne Schraf

(Perlis, Kedah, Selangor, WPKL, WP Putrajaya, Negeri Sembilan, Melaka)

3. Captain Nobody - Dean Pitchford

(Johor, Pahang, Sabah, Sarawak, WP Labuan)

SOURCE: email from BPK

New Novel Form 5 -

Sing To The Dawn - Minfong Ho (Synopsis)

Chapter One:
Dawan and Kwai sat on the rickety old bridge above the river
Dawan asked Kwai what would he do if he got the scholarship
Dawan felt that she would not get the scholarship because she is a
girl, instead Kwai might get the scholarship
Talked about how unfair it is that the sacks of rice stacked up
beneath the house is for the tax collector
Their parents thought that it was foolish and wasteful to send girls to
school

Chapter Two:
Teacher asked students what they saw beneath their house in the
morning
Had a long discussion with the students about the landlord taking
away sacks of rice beneath their houses
A student spotted the headmaster heading to their class and the
student shouted "he's coming"
Teacher and student immediately pretended that they are having
Geography lessons until the headmaster went away
Teacher and student discussed what they should do if they won the
scholarship
Teacher announced that Dawan won the scholarship

Chapter Three:
Classmates surrounded Dawan as soon as they heard that she won
the scholarship
Kwai was unhappy and sad that Dawan won the scholarship instead
of him
Dawan told her family that she got the scholarship and that made
her parents angry. Her father was especially angry and said that she
took her own brother's chance away from him.
Dawan's grandmother however supported her
Dawan and her grandmother headed to Noi's house and halfway,
Dawan's mother decided to go with Dawan instead of her
grandmother

Chapter Four:
Noi said that going to the city was useless
Army officer made deal with Noi's family in order not to bring Ghan
to the army

Chapter Five:
Kwai realised that Noi and Ghan do not support Dawan in going to
the city
Kwai came in second in the examination
If Dawan does not go to the city, Kwai gets to go instead of her

Chapter Six:
Dawan's father didn't want her to go to the city
Kwai asked his father if he had won the scholarship, would he allow
him to go to the city

Kwai's dad thought that boys going to the city to futher his studies
would be better than girls

Chapter Seven:
Dawan went to the marketplace alone and met a girl that sells lotus
bud and caged sparrows
Dawan realised that the girl, Bao, was the sister of her classmate

Chapter Eight:
Dawan went to see the old monk
Dawan's teacher and the old monk are good friends
Old monk does not really see why Dawan should go to the city school

Chapter Nine:
Bao allowed Dawan to free a bird for free
Bao's brother, Vichai, came to the market stall and hit her because
she freed a bird for free
Kwai stopped Vichai from hitting Bao
After realising that Bao knew about what happened between Dawan
and Kwai, Kwai wanted to slap Bao
Kwai pushed Dawan away when she tried to stop Kwai, unfortunately
she landed on top of a pile of broken bird cages, injuring herself
Cousin Noi helped Dawan with her wound

Chapter Ten:
Dawan and Kwai were at the river
Kwai was thinking about Dawan's words, about him being a bully

Dawan passed Kwai her umbrella caringly as it was raining

Kwai made a decision

Chapter Eleven:
Kwai's father heard from his teacher that he got second in the test
and was angry at Kwai for not telling him so
Father spoke to both Kwai and Dawan together
Father was very reluctant and unconvinced that Dawan should go to
the city school
After much persuasion from Dawan and Kwai, father finally allowed
Dawan to go to the city school

Chapter Twelve:
Kwai will miss Dawan once she goes to the city school, no one will be
there to watch the sunrise with him

Chapter Thirteen:
At first Dawan was unsure if she wanted to leave as she will miss
everything in her village
After her grandmother talked to Dawan, she decided to go
When she was boarding the bus to go to the city, Kwai was nowhere
to be seen
Although many people in the village sent her of, she was not happy
as Kwai was not there
During the bus journey, she saw Kwai on the bridge that they usually
went to, he was waving at her. Bidding goodbye