lc higher english 2011

martymonks

Need a little advice on pickig english texts. for anyone studying for higher english for 2011, what texts are u studying?

Mr Cawley

list is available on education.ie

martymonks

know where i can get the texts, im asking what texts people are studying

gruffler91

Hamlet for single study

Dancing At Lughnasa, The Kite Runner and Billy Elliot for the comparitive

dannydfc

Boland will DEFINETLY BE coming up LOL LOL LOL

Grindylow

My schools doing:

Main text: Wuthering Heights

Comparative:
-My Sister's Keeper
-Billy Elliot
-The Tempist

gaeilge-abú

Hamlet for single text..
comparitive: Dancing @ Lughnasa,Lies of Silence and Il Postino!

soccymonster

My class is doing...
Hamlet for single text.
And for the comparitive, Wuthering Heights, Dancing at Lughnasa and Casablanca.

But some other classes decided to do How many miles to Babylon, Dancing at Lughnasa and Il Postino as their comparitive.

Grindylow

Wow, all your schools are doing Shakespeare as the single text? :P

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

Heard that there's 3 females on this years course, this true??

msbrightside

Yep, there are three female poets- Rich, Boland and Emily Dickinson.

I'm studying Hamlet, Billy Elliot, Dancing at Lughnasa and How Many Miles to Babylon.

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

msbrightside wrote: »

Yep, there are three female poets- Rich, Boland and Emily Dickinson.

Thats a killer!

martymonks

any recommendations on what texts i could compare "the plough and the stars" with?

LadyGaga!

gaeilge-abú wrote: »

Hamlet for single text..
comparitive: Dancing @ Lughnasa,Lies of Silence and Il Postino!

For 2011??
If this is true then I may just keep on English when I'm repeating as we studied those texts this year and it'll be no bother!
ETA: OP there is an amazing book called Key Notes out which compares these three texts amazingly.

EverybodyLies

Hamlet for single text. How many Miles to Babylon, Dancing at Lughnasa and Billy Elliot for comparative. I have to say How many Miles to Babylon and Dancing at Lughnasa are very boring, and therefore hard to study.

Evan93

Hamlet for the single text.
Wuterhing Heights, The Plough & The Stars and Castleblanca for the comparitive. All pretty comparable.

martymonks

hi , could you give me some areas/hint/suggestions on how to compare your text? ill probably go for them myself but just looking for a head start on what areas I should look out for when comparing

martymonks

anyonme got any other suggestions?

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

Boland is defo coming up....:D

martymonks

any suggestions on how i could compare Wuterhing Heights, The Plough & The Stars and Castleblanca? looking for particular areas to compare cause im doing this all by myself from scratch and need help!

Chemistry Ftw

gaeilge-abú wrote: »

Hamlet for single text..
comparitive: Dancing @ Lughnasa,Lies of Silence and Il Postino!

Same with me

Chemistry Ftw

THFC wrote: »

Boland is defo coming up....:D

Not this again... lol

implausible

Why can no-one spell COMPARATIVE?? Please don't get this wrong on the exam script people, it look terrible.

martymonks wrote: »

any suggestions on how i could compare Wuterhing Heights, The Plough & The Stars and Castleblanca? looking for particular areas to compare cause im doing this all by myself from scratch and need help!

Anyhoo.....OP, my class are doing Hamlet as the single text and Babylon, Casablanca and Sive for the comparative.

Wuthering Heights is heavy going for a comparative. It's so long that if I was doing it myself I'd have it as the single text. However, if you're familiar with the text, it'd be handy enough. Babylon is a grand, handy, short novel that would slot nicely in if you picked Conflict as your theme. Mind you, there's no shortage of conflict in WH either.

As for Cultural Context, you have three nice texts there to compare. There are plenty of similarities and differences to make it interesting. You have different settings, the role of women is interesting as they are limited in their choices in all three texts and money/status are important in all three. You could also repeat some of your points on conflict as part of CC (if that isn't too confusing).

Eva990

Hamlet for single text.
Plough and the stars, lies of silence, billy elliot for comparative.

I've studied them all except for billy elliot

teenagedream

Hamlet for the single text.
Comparative Atonement, The Kite Runner and The Constant Gardener.
I bet no other class in Ireland is doing them :pac:
Wish I was doing Dancing at Lughnasa read it years ago and loved it.

musicloverx

main text : wuthering heights
and studying hamlet, how many miles to babylon and dancing at lughnasa for comparative, haven't done dancing at lughnasa yet,,the others aren't too bad i suppose:rolleyes:

randylonghorn

dannydfc wrote: »

Boland will DEFINETLY BE coming up LOL LOL LOL

The line to kick Danny is forming on the left, folks ...

THFC wrote: »

Boland is defo coming up....:D

Come on, you weren't even first!

squishness

Hamlet for the single text.
Lies Of Silence, The Kite Runner and The Plough and the Stars for the comparative.

flyaway.

Hamlet, Wuthering Heights, Lies of Silence and The Constant Gardener.

Keano!

msbrightside wrote: »

I'm studying Hamlet, Billy Elliot, Dancing at Lughnasa and How Many Miles to Babylon.

EverybodyLies wrote: »

Hamlet for single text. How many Miles to Babylon, Dancing at Lughnasa and Billy Elliot for comparative. I have to say How many Miles to Babylon and Dancing at Lughnasa are very boring, and therefore hard to study.

same here

aoife_bennett

martymonks wrote: »

what texts are u studying?

comparative: Lies of Silence, Dancing at Lughnasa, not too sure yet on the film, but my teacher has said we are doing one if them, not another literary type (ie: book or play)

single: Hamlet