English next Wednesday

philologos

What novels and drama are you all doing and how many poems are you studying for your exam next wednesday

Macka

I'm actually the olde L.C. this year but I just wanna tell you that it's more about how well you can argue your point in the Junior Cert over a knowledge of the poetry and texts. I went into the English exam knowing 2 poems and one scene from Romeo & Juliet all of which I couldn't use thanks to the questions on the paper and I still got a B. This was in higher I assure you, my point here is that you don't need to worry about knowing copious amounts of crap.....unless of course you're one of those incredibly annoying over-achievers. :cool:

JBoyle4eva

Drama: The Field by John B. Keane
Novel: Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Poems(3): Mid-Term Break, Follower & The Early Purges, all by Seamus Heaney

Fobia

Novel: The Cay by Theodore Taylor
Drama: Julius Caesar
Poems: Stopping in woods on a snowy evening (Robert Frost), The road not taken (Robert Frost), Mid-Term Break (Seamus Heaney), The Soldier (Rupert Brooke).

Should be covered, only thing I'm worried about for english is time.

PurpleFistMixer

I saw the film of the Field. So insanely hilarious.
I love that film...

And ugh, I read The Cay as a book report in second year. Just ugh.

Also read Roll of Thunder in first year. It wasn't bad, but my god am I sick of the 1930s American racism books.

I'm doing...

Drama: Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare.
Novel: To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee. (we had the option to do that or Catcher in the Rye. Wish we'd chosen Catcher now...)
Poems:
By Yeats; He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, When you are Old
By Kavanagh; Raglan Road, In Memory of My Mother
By Carole Satyamurti; Broken Moon
By Tadeusz Rosewicz; Pigtail
By Siegried Sassoon; Does it Matter?
By Isobel Thrilling; Advice to a Teenage Daughter
By Fleur Adcock; For Heidi With Blue Hair

I'm probably not going to answer any question with the last 2 poems, simply because I couldn't be bothered learning so many of them.

Raphael

Drama: West Side Story
Novel: Of Mice and Men
Poems:
The Stones
Innocent
The Pig Killer
(All Brendan Kineally)

..wait, that was last year

PurpleFistMixer

My orchestra are doing the soundtrack to Westside story at the minute. Judging from the music, it's sounds great, and I want to see it now...

Fobia

PurpleFistMixer wrote:

And ugh, I read The Cay as a book report in second year. Just ugh.

Agreed. Young bahss, dis novel ees horeebol!

declan_lgs

Drama: The Merchant Of Venice
Novel: Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Dunno about the poetry yet. Whatever I can find I guess...

modular

Romeo and Juliet
To Kill a Mockingbird
A good few poems about war, love etc.

philologos

Dulce Et Decorum Est - Wilfred Owen
The General - Sigfried Sassoon
Love is not Times Fool - W. Shakespeare
another love poem still to be decided lol

philologos

since im feeling sorry for those doing their junior cert english exam with me next week im gonna give ya ur answer to R & J
www.absoluteshakespeare.com

http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Titles/killmockingbird/ and to kill a mockingbird ( i will be adding more as i go on)

http://www.poemhunter.com -- All your poems will be here dudes

GOOGLE IS YOUR FRIEND for every exam

JBoyle4eva

Jakkass wrote:

http://www.poemhunter.com -- All your poems will be here dudes

Only found this site the other day, I was number 2'ing myself because I lost my poems!