2009 HSC English Texts - What are you studying? (1 Viewer)

What level of English do you study?

  • English as a Second Language (ESL)

    Votes: 15 2.6%
  • Standard English

    Votes: 128 21.9%
  • Advanced English

    Votes: 361 61.8%
  • Extension English

    Votes: 166 28.4%

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PeaceDrummer

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Module A: Comparitive Study
Elizabthe Barrett Browning Sonnets
The Great Gatsby

Umm, the others are:

Hamlet, Speeches.. Irish poems? And The Crucible.


:|
 

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oOOoo I am doing Yeats in Module...C or X or something a rather, but he's brilliant, I did a Uni lecture on his poem this holidays and now I psyched.

Related material eh? I've got a few for belonging just from doing a folio of text assignment but I haven't put very much serious thinkage into it. Although for History and Memory I'm doing The Fiftieth Gate so I figure Maus would be a good related text.

Belonging RM:

The Legend of 1900 (film)...could almost cross over for History and Memory if you squint hard enough
About A Boy (novel)
One Hour Photo (film)
Alone by Edgar Allen Poe (poem)
 

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Having so much trouble with fay weldons 'Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen" !!
I can't interpret the chapters. Any one can help?
Thanks :)
 
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Advanced English.

Im doing:

AOS (belonging): The Simple Gift

Module A: Frankenstein/Bladerunner
Module B: speeches
Module C: Julias Ceasar
 

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English Advanced:

- AOS Belonging: As You Like It (Shakespeare)
- History and Memory: The Fiftieth Gate
- Frankenstein and Blade Runner
- Poetry of Gwen Harwood

English Extension 1: Romanticism

- Poetry of Keats
- Poetry of Coleridge

not sure what comes after..

Coleridge isn't exactly awesome to study. He subliminally messages you from the dead, advising you to smoke opium in creative writing sections.

And I'm bored of him. :D
 

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ARGH! I hate my Advanced texts. I HATE MY TEACHER. :mad:

Area of Study: Peter Skrzynecki's Immigrant Chronicle - what a joke, he's such a terrible poet.

Module A: King Richard III (Shakespeare) / Looking for Richard (Al Pacino) - Worst. Text. Ever.
Module B: Speeches
Module C: Snow Falling on Cedars (David Guterson)

Sigh.

I love my Ext. 1 texts though, I've got: Seamus Heaney, The Shipping News and Lost in Translation.
 

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advanced english. is anyone doing cloudstreet for the critical study of a text????
 

psyche92

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I'm doing 4 units of English

We're studying romanticism and I'm absolutely killing it :)

I'll most likely come first in the class. I'm teaching myself wuthering heights instead of Northanger Abbey. I loved wuthering heights, read and memorised most of it in year 7 :)

I dunno, english is my favourite subject, i love it :)
 

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advanced english. is anyone doing cloudstreet for the critical study of a text????


No, but i did read it and LOVED it :D one of my favourite books :) a little too graphic at times but i wish we were doing it *sigh* i'll probably use it for my supplementary for belonging :)
 

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AOS - Belonging: Skryznecki's Immigrant Chronicle
Module A - Comparative: Shelly's Frankenstein and Scott's Bladerrunner
Module B - Critical: Shakespeare's Hamlet
Module C - Representation: Smithsonian Institute of American History
 

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Is anybody doing 'poetry by ted hughes' for module C?? Im yet to find someone thats actually doing it :(
 

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Area of Study: Belonging
Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson

Module A: Comparative Study of Texts and Context
Frankenstein & Blade Runner

Module B: Critical Study of Texts
George Orwell: Essays

Module C: Representation and Text
Julius Caesar
 

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Advanced English

  • AOS: The Joy Luck CLub by Amy Tan
  • Module A: Richard III and Looking for Richard
  • Module B: A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
  • Module C: Levertov Poetry

English Extension 1

Crime Writing [our module] with three prescribed texts? lol.

  • The Skull Beneath the Skin by P.D. James
  • The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard
  • Rear Window by Alfred Hitchcock

I find Extension 1 much more interesting and enjoyable plus easier than advanced. I like all my texts for advanced except for Richard III, which i am currently doing. SO boring lol.
 

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Adv English.
How crappy is doing speeches.
Personally i got really bored reading them with the exception of Atwoods, but thats just because her style appealed to me.
 

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