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What's on the English syllabus?

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  • 07-06-2005 11:20am
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    Holly Golightly
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    Can someone please give me a list of the novels that are on the English course this year? And good luck to everyone tomorrow.


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    Cutie18Ireland
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    higher or ordinary level??


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    Holly Golightly
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    Higher, sorry.


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    PurpleFistMixer
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    As far as I'm aware, there are no prescribed books for Junior Cert English. So you could do whatever book you wanted.


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    Holly Golightly
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    Seriously? That's brilliant. We did "Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry" this year but I hate it and did no work on it, but I've done tons on "Lord Of The Flies" and "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" etc. I was up all night ringing people asking them, lol, and they all said to stick to the syllabus but I mean, I couldn't find the syllabus anywhere online and nobody knew what was on it apart from "To Kill A Mockingbird". Do you really think it would be OK to do any book I wanted, then?


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    PurpleFistMixer
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    I'm pretty sure although dear god I would not like to think that a chunk of your English paper is hinged on how certain I am...

    However since you can actually find the lists of prescribed literature for Leaving Cert and not for the Junior, I'm guessing that means the Junior Cert doesn't have any.


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    Raphael
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    I know it's ok in drama, not sure about the novel though


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    Holly Golightly
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    Thanks lots, PurpleFistMixer & Raphael. I don't know, I think I'll stick to "Lord Of The Flies" as I'm fairly sure that that's one that's often done at JC level and I know quite a lot about it. Are there any other books that are often done?


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    Mimikyu
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    PurpleFistMixer
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    Wow, that'd be so great!
    I read that book in like one day... and you could talk about the themes for hours...


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    Fobia
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    PurpleFistMixer wrote:
    Wow, that'd be so great!
    I read that book in like one day... and you could talk about the themes for hours...

    Agreed, though if I had a choice I'd probably do 1984 instead...

    I have to write on bloody childrens book, I have many pages of notes on themes conflicts etc but when it all comes down to it The Cay is just a badly written, boring story.


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    PurpleFistMixer
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    Yeah. I actually knew the whole story behind Animal Farm (as in I'd read someone's analysis of the not-so-hidden meanings in it) before I read the book. I was surprised to discover how short and how... not... 'ARR THIS IS LITERARY! LONG WORDS!' it was.


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    modular
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    Fobia wrote:
    Agreed, though if I had a choice I'd probably do 1984 instead...

    I have to write on bloody childrens book, I have many pages of notes on themes conflicts etc but when it all comes down to it The Cay is just a badly written, boring story.

    Oh dear. Don't mention that book.

    Read it in second year, didn't like it one bit. The phonetic spelling of Timothy's accent would drive you mental.


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