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27-12-2009 11:08pm#1I'd be interested to see where other people are in terms of their course completion.... I'll stick it up in a blog post afterwards if people reply! Just copy my format and elaborate a bit
By the way, I'm not sure of the syllabus of any of these, so I'll just mention as much as I can....
English(H); We've got King Lear read, and sort of studied. We need to go a bit more in-depth into it. In terms of poetry, Boland,Rich,Yeats and Kavanagh finished. Half-way through Longley. We've done some Language Of Persuasion and Argument. We've been doing regular essays. Lies Of Silence is read, not studied. We're eading Panther In The Basement over Christmas. We've watched "Inside I'm Dancing" once. We've done regular comprehensions aswell....
Irish(H); We've pretty much finished reading and studying "A Thig Ná Tit Orm". In terms of prose, we've read An Cearrbhach Mac Cába, Coileach Ghleann Phádraig, Lig Sinn i gCathú, Fiche Blian Ag Fás and Clare Sa Spéir, which covers them all. None of them are studied, though. Just read once or twice. In poetry, we've still got Úirchill, Maigdiléana, An tOileán and "Dá mb'fhéidir arís..." left to do. Again, the ones completed aren't known well. Essays are coming on ok, we've covered the environment, changes in society, sport, technology...
Our comprehension skills are terrible, and we've done no grammar revision from the JC, expected to know it all after TY. No Stair Na Gaeilge finished. Barely touched on oral, barely touched on tape. None of these touched on since 5th year
Maths(H); Horribly unprepared for this. If it was up to me, I'd say we've nothing covered. Technically, we've done; Algebra, Trigonometry, The line, Differentiation, Calculus, Complex Numbers, Matrices
Geography(H); Most of physical geography complete. Regional geography finished. Maps and photographs glanced over. About half way through The Human Environment. Heaps of revision to do for these and we haven't even touched Geoecology or our projects
French(H); Heaps of oral done, we spend time in every class taking oral notes, not necessarily speaking though :rolleyes: We're all fairly grand on the comprehensions and abstract topics are fairly covered aswell. Good bit of tape done aswell, again a regular part of class. Written parts (Diary,letter) etc. is again covered fairly well. Verbs need a bit of work...
Physics/Chemistry(H); We have basically all of the Physics course completed, few bits to do later on. In Chemistry, we've done Atomic Theory and Stoichiometry
Agricultural Science(H); Horrible, horrible subject and one of my biggest worries. The green Breen/Mullen book is beyond USELESS! We've covered Plant Science, Tillage Crops, Genetics, some Animal Science, some Animal Production..... i.e. NOTHING. Seriously worried about this subject. I've yet to start my project. HAVE to do it over Christmas
Anyone with way more/less covered than this?0
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English(H); We've read King Lear, at the minute we're just revising and doing character profiles. Finished our 3 texts :Dancing At Lughnasa, Circle of Friends and Inside I'm Dancing, and we've done studied all three comparatives: cultural context, vision and viewpoint and literary genre. We're constantly working through papers and get an essay once a fortnight. As for poets, we've finished Yeats, Kavanagh, Rich, Walcott, Longley and Boland.
Irish(H); We finished An Triail about a month ago, and did some study on characters, but nothing major. We've read all the prose, but need to study them further. Poetry: We've just got an tOilean and Da mb'fheidir aris dar gcumann to do. We do an essay once every 2-3 weeks. We do listening comprehensions every Friday. At the minute we're working through Stair. As for comprehensons, we've done about three since the start of the year. Terrible.
Maths(H); We're working well. On Integration at the moment. After we're finished it we just have Vectors and a small bit of the Option to do.
Geography(H); Course finished
We're revising Physical Geography at the moment and just have to work on our projects. Our class was the only class in the school to do the Culture and Identity topic.
German(H); We've done most of the listening comprehensions in the exam papers and do a comprehension and a letter every week. Haven't done too much oral work...
Biology(H); Just have the Genetics section to do. At the minute we're working through exam papers and take a chapter each week to revise. Have all our mandatory experiments completed.
Home Economics (H); Without a doubt the subject I'm dreading the most. Our teacher went on sick leave at the end of 5th year so we're stuck with one of those teachers who like to take things at their own pace (which is extremely slow) We touched on Social Studies last year but only did a chapter or two. Nearly finished the Elective, and nearly finished Food Studies. Haven't even looked at Resource Management or Consumer Studies yet...0 -
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English(H) I've done Eavan Boland, Patrick Kavanagh, T.S Eliot and a little bit of Yeats. We did King Lear but don't know how to answer questions on it. We've read a bit of Girl with a pearl earring and all of Dancing at Lughnasa and watched Billy Eliot. I've started to do things myself becasue we're not getting anywhere.
Irish(O) I just dropped last week and did some lettersin class. The courses are pretty different so i've to start looking at the ordinary level and do things that i've missed by myself
Maths(H) Doing pretty well, my teacher knows what she's doing and we do a class of papers every week. I know what i have to revise and i think all we have left to do are the proofs and integration.
French(H) We do oral work every day but have to work more on comprehensions and opinion topics but doing ok.
Geography(H) We have to do our project after the mocks and finish off Ireland and the EU and also global warming.
Business(H) I'm doing most of the work myself, done most of the chapters but we have to do a lot more about the government and EU. A bit worried about it.
Biology(H) Think we are nearly finished the course, doing well in it anyway and we have tests pretty much every week.
I'm pretty far behind in some of them
but will do a lot myself in the next few months. 0 -
English(H): Have Yeats, Kavanagh, Boland & Rich done with at least 2 essays on each except Yeats. For the comparative we have all 3 texts studied and cultural context and general vision and viewpoint done (we're not doing literary genre) with essays done on both. Did loads of comprehensions at the start of the year and did some before the break. We've only done 2 or 3 personal essays and that needs a lot of work. We're currently doing the language of persuasion. We have King Lear studied and we got a character essay for over the holidays. So basically English is almost covered, should be grand for the mocks
Irish(H): All the stories and poems done. All the OL poems revised and are revising the stories when we go back to school. Have An Triail done, with loads of revision done on it. We've done a good few comprehensions, but I could still do with some improvement :P We have about 7 essays done and I dunno how many more we'll be doing. We get one every 3 weeks or so. We have more than 15 pieces of Stair done and even though there's a lot, I'm not gonna be learning most of it anyways. We've started to do some oral work and we've been doing listenings every so often.
Maths(O): We've been doing mainly exam questions in this, so I'm not sure if we're ahead or behind. But I can get an A in each of the questions we've been doing (we've been doing a mixture of paper 1 and paper 2 questions)
Business(H): Doing fine in this. At the end of 5th year we were about 2 chapters ahead of his target. We only have a unit and a half left, and I reckon the course will be finished by March
French(H): Have all of our oral work done with a mock oral done too which went fine. We've done plenty of comprehensions but they're never really done completely cause he just moves on. We've done plenty of written pieces, but he never gives us grammar to help us, so he just expects us to be able to do it, and I'm not gonna be able to just do stuff off the top of my head in the exam.
Biology: I feel like we're moving along fine in this. We still have more than 10 chapters to go, but we've got the big chapters done and I actually understand it cause it hasn't been rushed through. Not to worried about getting it all done, should be done soon enough
History: We've started the fourth and last book, but I, along with my whole class are horribly unprepared for this. He goes through the book slowly but when he reads through it he skips LOADS of it but it still takes him 2 classes to get through half a chapter :mad: No revision done cause its kinda impossible and he hasn't even tried to motivate us to do some ourselves. Told us to have the first draft of our special topic done by Christmas, didn't remind us, and even forgot about it himself.0 -
English(H): Adrienne Rich and Derek Walcott done. All characters in King Lear done , themes still to do. Cultural context and general vision and viewpoint done. We've done a few comprehensions and get essays every week.
Irish(H): Dá m'bfhedir (sp?) and an mháthair still to do. All poems and prós done. Loads of listening/oral/comprehensions regularly. Peig done as well. We could do a bit more on stair i suppose.
Maths(H): Binomial theorem, sequences and series and probability still to do.
French(H): We've loads of oral and listening done. Have to do a few more topics for written.
Biology(H): 7 chapters in unit 3 left.
Chemistry(H): Almost all of organic done, and everything up to rates of reactions. About 6ish chapters left.
Accounting(H): Depreciation, revaluation, control, cash flow, service, farm, club, tabs, published,half of interpretation, incomplete and about half of management done.
Applied Maths(H): Collisions, uniform accelerated motion and projectiles done. Doing the course in one year.
Of course that's what we have done in class, what i know is another story, ahem 0 -
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English:
We have King Lear studied for our single text, about four people in my class understand it, but its done! We have all our comparatives (Billy Elliot, Panther in the Basement, and Dancing at Lughnasa), now we're just learning to compare them under Cultural Context, Vision and Viewpoint, and Literary Genre(anyone willing to give me an explanation of what Literary Genre is, is more than welcome), and as for poets, we've done Boland, Rich, Yeats and Kavanagh. We've done little bits of creative writing etc., but not much.
Irish:
We spend that whole class making sexual innuendos.
Maths:
Whole course is finished, now its revision and exam papers.
Spanish:
Have the first two roleplays done, and have La Adventura De Said read and studied, mostly working from exam papers now.
Business:
Don't even go there. My teacher doesnt think we're gonna be finished the course by May, and she's dead serious, and for once in her teaching career, probably right. We've units 1 and 2 done and finished. We've parts of units 3, 4 and 5 done, and were currently doing unit 7. Its official, we have no hope.
Biology:
We've alot done, but were not finished, but apparently were going good. Great teacher to be honest, and really motivates us to do well. If we pass, we get chocolate
Classics:
Finished the course earlier on in the year, just really had Alexander to do when we came back, so now its all revision, still havent a clue though0 -
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Irish (H) Finished the poetry..needs to be revised!! Finished the Pros - also should be revised, have done a bit of Oral and Tape Work.. tape is terrible though, comprehensions we have done a good few, essays have not been done in awhile!! We are finished An Triail... however it just took me a good few minutes to think of the name of the book! thats bad! I need a C3 in Irish and im just about passing at the moment.. our teacher has left and we have a sub in and well.. we dont do much really!! We have yet to do Stair na Gaeilge.. word on the street is that its a fairly ok part of the course though!!
English (H) Finished all the poets, Finished King Lear with study done on Lear himself and changes on Lear but that is it, Lies Of Silence is finished - not much study on it, Il Postino is done and studied, The Playboy of The Western World is done but not finished studied. We are doing General Vision and Viewpoint at the moment, we have done about 2essays :O, I dont think we have done any comprehensions.
Maths (O) We have covered a good few questions... We need to start the options though. Lots of revision is need for me I think!
French (H at the moment!) Little tape done, loads of oral work, loads of comprehensions, we are doing letters at the moment, and those other questions.. we are useless at them. There is 5 people in my class doing higher level.. I think it may be 4 soon though!! Bits of the document are done.. Im doing mine on all the concerts I went to during the Summer!
Geography (H) Love Geography!!
We have a bit left on both regional and physical, We have done some of the aerial photos and ordnance survey which I love! we havnt done any geoecology or our project.
Music (H) The Beatles is finished, as is Berlioz, Mozart we need to finish the 3rd movement, We are doing seachanges at the moment, we have done no practicle or technology, we have done some backing chords and 2 lines of the melody writing. Irish music is finished mostly.. just a few essays to cover.
Art(H) Doing a project at the moment, we are tipping away at both life drawing and still life. Art History.. we have done the Impressionists and we are on Irish Art now. We went to the Glucksman during the year so thats some the apprication done!0 -
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