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  • 26-05-2002 3:00pm
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    PPC
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    From http://www.gov.ie/educ/presmat.htm
    List of texts for Examination in the year 2001



    ACHEBE, Chinua Things Fall Apart

    ATWOOD, Margaret Cat's Eye

    BALLARD, James G. Empire of the sun

    BELL, Sam Hanna December Bride

    BRANAGH, Kenneth (Dir.) Much Ado About Nothing (Film)

    BRONTE, Charlotte Jane Eyre (H, O)

    CHANG, Jung Wild Swans

    CHATWIN, Bruce In Patagonia

    COSTNER, Kevin (Dir.) Dances With Wolves (Film)

    DEANE, Seamus Reading In The Dark

    DICKENS, Charles Great Expectations (H, O)

    FRIEL, Brian Philadelphia, Here I Come (O)

    HARDY, Thomas Far From The Madding Crowd (H,O)

    ISHIGURO, Kazuo The Remains Of The Day

    IVORY, James (Dir.) A Room With A View (Film)

    JOHNSTON, Jennifer How Many Miles To Babylon?

    KEENAN, Brian An Evil Cradling

    LESSING, Doris The Grass Is Singing

    LIVELY, Penelope City of the Mind

    MACKEN, Walter The Silent People

    MALOUF, David Fly Away Peter

    MILLER, Arthur Death Of A Salesman

    MOORE, Brian Lies Of Silence (O)

    MURPHY, Dervla Wheels Within Wheels

    MC CABE, Eugene Death And Nightingales

    MC GUINNESS, Frank Someone Who'll Watch Over Me

    MC MAHON, Brian The Master

    O'BRIEN, Kate The Land Of Spices

    O'BRIEN, Kate Cruise The Homesick Garden

    O'CONNOR, Frank My Oedipus Complex And Other

    Stories (O)



    REED, Carol (Dir.) The Third Man (Film)

    SHAKESPEARE, William King Lear (H, O)

    Othello

    Henry V

    Hamlet (H, O)

    SHERIDAN, Jim (Dir.) My Left Foot (Film)

    SOPHOCLES Antigone (H, O)

    Oedipus

    TAYLOR, Mildred The Road To Memphis (O)

    TORNATORE, Giusseppe (Dir.) Cinema Paradiso (Film)

    TWAIN, Mark The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

    The following two texts are not available for study at Higher Level.

    MOORE, Brian Lies Of Silence

    TAYLOR, Mildred The Road To Memphis

    I'm in honours and this says that Philidelphia Here I Come is for pass and we've studied it for the last 2 years.

    Does anybody know if its on the honours course aswell?


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    seamus
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    It says at the top of that page that the texts on it are for the first year only of the new English syllabus. You are the second year, so this list doesn't apply to you. Importanly, don't panic - I'm sure your teacher knows what he's doing, this text is more than likely on your course. Your teacher shoul be contactable in/by the school tomorrow, ask him to calm yourself (that is, if someone hasn't cleared it up here later).

    :)


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    PPC
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    hehe u never met my teacher.
    He talks to him self in class and is on valium cause he has a habit of throwing desks at students.
    This has happened twice since i've been in the school.


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    smiles
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    yeah it's on the honours course, i'm doing it :)

    << Fio >>


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    PPC
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    He neglected to do any sonnets by Shakespeare aswell.
    We did useless stuff instead. e.g notes on unseen poetry that had no relevence at all.


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    alex122
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    yeh... were doing it aswell this year for Honours


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    damnyanks
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    hehe u never met my teacher.
    He talks to him self in class and is on valium cause he has a habit of throwing desks at students.
    This has happened twice since i've been in the school.

    Cool :D what school you in?


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    PPC
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    DLS, Waterford


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    daveJAM
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    I'm in his class too. Its pretty funny. He flips in seconds. He always says something like: The next time you'll be out that door. Then he flips and throws half the class out the door immediately. Poor guy, it was probably us that drove him to insanity.


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    damnyanks
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    There is a teacher like that in our school except he has been to counciling etc. so now he is all friendly. Well maybe its just a rumour I dont know. Maybe Seamus can help out :)

    Do you remember Mr. Conway ? Was he a skitso ?


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    seamus
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    Originally posted by damnyanks
    There is a teacher like that in our school except he has been to counciling etc. so now he is all friendly. Well maybe its just a rumour I dont know. Maybe Seamus can help out :)

    Do you remember Mr. Conway ? Was he a skitso ?

    ROFL fs...the rumors that get sent around. Conway was the best teacher I ever had - the only teacher that prevented me from hating school entirely. In the JC I got 3 A's - all in subjects he was teaching me. What does that say? But yes he's a psycho. Get him angry and he flips. Big time. When I was in first year he walloped a guy for doing a knick knack. We were all scared of him for the rest of the time. Everyone was. If he ever raised his voice, you shut up, and listened. A very scary individual. His son is worse - very quiet, highly intelligent, but when he loses the rag, he loses it big time. He's studying to be a doctor - I certainly would not want to be under the knife when he's holding it :D

    (Oh dear, I seem to have gone OT.....)


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