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LC English - What single/comparative texts are you doing?

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    FudgeBrace
    Registered Users Posts: 216 ✭✭FudgeBrace


    joesoup wrote: »
    Just wondering what single texts and comparative texts people are doing for their English exam? :D
    For the single text I'm doing MacBeth.
    For the comparative I'm doing How many miles to Babylon , Casablanca , and the old man an the sea. Yourself.??


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    ryanch09
    Registered Users Posts: 380 ✭✭ryanch09


    Single text: Macbeth
    Comparative: Tess of the D'Urbervilles, How I Live Now and The Constant Gardener =)


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    joesoup
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    We're doing Macbeth for single text, and How Many Miles to Babylon, Casablanca and 1984 for comparative


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    ray2012
    Registered Users Posts: 893 ✭✭✭ray2012


    Single test : Macbeth
    Comparative : Sive, How Many Miles to Babylon and the film I'm Not Scared. :)


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    D3luka
    Registered Users Posts: 29 ✭D3luka


    single text: machbeth
    comparative : sive, how many miles to babylon, children of men


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    iLikePiano99
    Registered Users Posts: 371 ✭✭iLikePiano99


    Comparative: How many miles to Babylon?, Purple Hibiscus and I'm Not Scared.
    Single Text: Macbeth


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    TorpidCat
    Registered Users Posts: 8 ✭TorpidCat


    Single: Macbeth
    Comparative: How Many Miles to Babylon, All My Sons and Casablanca


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    Jaygee
    Registered Users Posts: 35 ✭Jaygee


    Single text: Macbeth
    Comparatives: Casablanca, Sive and Brooklyn


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    user.name
    Registered Users Posts: 283 ✭✭user.name


    single: The Great Gatsby
    comparatives: Sive, Emma and the Winters Tale


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    smurphy11
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    Single text: Pride and prejudice
    Comparatives: Macbeth, I`m not scared and Brooklyn


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    JDOC1996
    Registered Users Posts: 445 ✭✭JDOC1996


    I thought that everyone had to do Macbeth?


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    Sunny!!
    Registered Users Posts: 1,409 ✭✭✭Sunny!!


    JDOC1996 wrote: »
    I thought that everyone had to do Macbeth?

    you can do winters tale instead if you want and if your doing pass level you do not have to do macbeth


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    jamo2oo9
    Registered Users Posts: 5,780 ✭✭✭jamo2oo9


    Macbeth, Wuthering Heights and Lost in Translations. I can't remember the name of the film we watched.


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    ray2012
    Registered Users Posts: 893 ✭✭✭ray2012


    JDOC1996 wrote: »
    I thought that everyone had to do Macbeth?

    No, you have a choice of a few plays to do, it doesn't have to be Macbeth. Majority of schools do Macbeth though!


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    Copper_pipe
    Registered Users Posts: 11,553 ✭✭✭✭Copper_pipe


    Macbeth is my single text

    Translations
    Wuthering heights
    I'm not scared are my comparative texts


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    QueenOfLeon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,109 ✭✭✭QueenOfLeon


    JDOC1996 wrote: »
    I thought that everyone had to do Macbeth?

    For Higher Level you have to do a Shakespearean play somewhere, either in the Single text or as part of the Comparative. For Ordinary level its given as an option but not compulsory.


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    Legion.
    Registered Users Posts: 401 ✭✭Legion.


    Copper_pipe wrote: »
    Macbeth is my single text

    Translations
    Wuthering heights
    I'm not scared are my comparative texts


    Same as mine.


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    chloe04
    Registered Users Posts: 9 ✭chloe04


    would have loved to do george orwell 1984! single text macbeth and comparative the great gatsby,tess of the durbervilles and mister pip..all a snore


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    bluejay14
    Registered Users Posts: 3,849 ✭✭✭bluejay14


    Single text: Macbeth
    Comparative: Casablanca, How Many Miles to Babylon, Sive


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    David1994
    Registered Users Posts: 1,073 ✭✭✭David1994


    bluejaymraz wrote: »
    Single text: Macbeth
    Comparative: Casablanca, How Many Miles to Babylon, Sive

    High five! Do those exact ones :L


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    rugrats
    Registered Users Posts: 73 ✭✭rugrats


    jamo2oo9 wrote: »
    Macbeth, Wuthering Heights and Lost in Translations. I can't remember the name of the film we watched.

    For fear that you wrote in your examination that you studied "Lost in Translations", I feel compelled to tell you that it's called "Translations".


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    CatEyed92
    Registered Users Posts: 232 ✭✭CatEyed92


    Casablanca, How Many Miles to Babylon and Macbeth

    How Many Miles to Babylon is the most boring book I have ever read!
    Yet everyone seems to love it? :confused:
    I did third level English, read old english poetry and it was not as boring as this book! Still wading through it !! Anyone out there hating HMMTB too or am I totally missing the hype?


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    Sunny!!
    Registered Users Posts: 1,409 ✭✭✭Sunny!!


    CatEyed92 wrote: »
    Casablanca, How Many Miles to Babylon and Macbeth

    How Many Miles to Babylon is the most boring book I have ever read!
    Yet everyone seems to love it? :confused:
    I did third level English, read old english poetry and it was not as boring as this book! Still wading through it !! Anyone out there hating HMMTB too or am I totally missing the hype?

    im doing the same texts, and i have to admit its soooo boring! thank god the book is short!


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    CatEyed92
    Registered Users Posts: 232 ✭✭CatEyed92


    Sunny!! wrote: »
    im doing the same texts, and i have to admit its soooo boring! thank god the book is short!

    Not short enough! It's taking ages for me to get through it! And there's alot of spitting going on..... yuck


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    ray2012
    Registered Users Posts: 893 ✭✭✭ray2012


    CatEyed92 wrote: »
    Casablanca, How Many Miles to Babylon and Macbeth

    How Many Miles to Babylon is the most boring book I have ever read!
    Yet everyone seems to love it? :confused:
    I did third level English, read old english poetry and it was not as boring as this book! Still wading through it !! Anyone out there hating HMMTB too or am I totally missing the hype?

    i'm doing HMMTB also, it's the most boring book I've ever read. :| Nothing really dramatic even happens, just in the last 3 pages maybe but that's it. Was glad to get it finished !


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    curly135
    Registered Users Posts: 124 ✭✭curly135


    Single text: Macbeth
    Comparative: Purple Hibiscus, Reluctant Fundamentalist, Casablanca

    Had my heart set on doing 1984, read it before and really liked it. English teacher didn't choose to do it, despite the fact that I told her I had a fairly good understanding of it, and that she knew there was a few of us who had a genuine interest in doing it, as opposed to the majority of the class who couldn't care less about what she chose.

    Probably the reason why I really don't like English now :D


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    kevin12345
    Registered Users Posts: 1,171 ✭✭✭kevin12345


    Single text: Macbeth (Did it for Junior Cert too - yay :D)

    Comparative: The Book Thief, Casablanca, Sive.


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    iLikePiano99
    Registered Users Posts: 371 ✭✭iLikePiano99


    Finally! People who have the same feelings about HMMTB as me. It is the most boring book I have ever had to read. Ask me now, and I honestly could not tell you who Bennett is, or Glendinning. I was so bored reading it that I paid attention to nothing and then when I was revising it to do a question, I read the summaries online and realised just how much I had zoned out during it! :)


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    moriz
    Registered Users Posts: 74 ✭✭moriz


    Single: Macbeth
    Comparative: My Sister's Keeper + I'm Not Scared + Circle of Friends

    I feel like the odd one out now!


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    CatEyed92
    Registered Users Posts: 232 ✭✭CatEyed92


    I have a big dliemma lads!

    Found out there another teacher in the college is doing my old single text this year - Wuthering Heights.

    They are also doing Casablanca, HMMTB and Macbeth for comparative.

    I have already read HMMTB, Macbeth and WH.

    My current teacher is doing Macbeth as a single text and I HATE Shakespeare. In 2011, I studied the Shakespeare text as comparative and certainly was revealed as there was less pressure compared to single text.
    I also have another book yet to read for my current teacher's comparative - The Book Thief.

    So what I am asking is - Should I do my own thing?

    HELP! Hope this makes sense!


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