English teacher covered the wrong comparative material.. What am I going to do?

zero1221

We spent all year studying literary genre and cultural context for The King's Speech, The Road and Foster and we were only NOW told that cultural context is not on the course this year, so basically if literary genre doesn't come up tomorrow I'm ****ed.. I'm relying on English as one of my top 6 and I'm having a meltdown, I have no idea what to do, is there anything I can do to even forge together some basic theme/issue notes? What topics should I focus on?

IrishLoriii

zero1221 wrote: »

We spent all year studying literary genre and cultural context for The King's Speech, The Road and Foster and we were only NOW told that cultural context is not on the course this year, so basically if literary genre doesn't come up tomorrow I'm ****ed.. I'm relying on English as one of my top 6 and I'm having a meltdown, I have no idea what to do, is there anything I can do to even forge together some basic theme/issue notes? What topics should I focus on?

General vision is actual very ok my teacher never covered it ever!! Focus on the opening scenes (Bertie in the Mike and they focus on the mic how nervous he is how supportive she is etc ) I haven't done the other texts sorry...then use a key scene from the middle and then do the last scene which is him doing the speech so at the start its really pessimistic and at the end do you think its pessimistic due to war or optimistic due to his speech?

Use the guidelines for your other texts it honestly is doable!!

qweerty

zero1221 wrote: »

We spent all year studying literary genre and cultural context for The King's Speech, The Road and Foster and we were only NOW told that cultural context is not on the course this year, so basically if literary genre doesn't come up tomorrow I'm ****ed.. I'm relying on English as one of my top 6 and I'm having a meltdown, I have no idea what to do, is there anything I can do to even forge together some basic theme/issue notes? What topics should I focus on?

Jeez, that's a blunder. Obviously there's no magic bullet, but I don't think it's disastrous. Cultural Context can be adapted relatively easily to suit General Vision or Theme. The primary task of a comparative question is...that you compare - even if the comparisons aren't particularly strong. Both Theme and GV are dealt with when studying CC, so you can scale up. Whichever you decide to do, make sure you are assertive and stay on task. Even if it feels like you're writing sh!t, present it as though it's brilliantly incisive.

Good luck.

IrishLoriii wrote: »

General vision is actual very ok my teacher never covered it ever!! Focus on the opening scenes (Bertie in the Mike and they focus on the mic how nervous he is how supportive she is etc ) I haven't done the other texts sorry...then use a key scene from the middle and then do the last scene which is him doing the speech so at the start its really pessimistic and at the end do you think its pessimistic due to war or optimistic due to his speech?

Use the guidelines for your other texts it honestly is doable!!

Yeah, it's pretty much crucial that you say whether you thought the text was optimistic or pessimistic. Everything you said should be trying to prove one or the other.

BlueWolf16

Not the same texts, but pretty much every comparative has the same 3-4 headings. Think about Key Scenes, Ending, Relationships/Dialogue, Imagery/Symbolism.

Terri26

Don't panic. It's a pity but you can get through this. Use what you know through cultural context to show how the general vision and viewpoint is optimistic or pessimistic. You could also use the cultural context (eg the role of society) as your theme.

Peregrine

Closing this as the exam is over and the OP seems to have got on okay.