A lot of us are and will be stuck with texts we absolutely despise with passion, so I just wanted to ask you all which texts you wished you could do for your prelims and most importantly, the HSC.
For me, my favourite text of all time is To Kill a Mockingbird. Omg, it's such an awesome book and I love it so much. LOL. Ahhh, just thinking about the characters make me so jealous! (Minus all the racism and all that negative jazz.) Learning it in depth would be so much better than learning about the plot/themes/characters like I did in year ten, because both the book and movie deserve more than merely an analysis of its characters. More deeper issues to look into.
Other than that I think that the Emma/Clueless module is silly because it's like comparing a Californian bristlecone pine tree, so regal and beautiful to some grotesque... tree... thing planted merely one and a half decades ago. A classic from the English Canon compared to some teenage flick. Mkay, sounding like a teacher here... I don't know what other transformation would be good to do because all transformations these days seem to wash up and are left to dry.
At my school we do Powerplay: Antony and Cleopatra which is pretty interesting, Wild Swans by Chang which might be interesting too. I wish we could study a movie aside from Clueless... I'm good with speeches so maybe the speeches module would be good for me also. Speaking of AOS - we are the last year to be doing Journeys, right?
Hmm, other texts which are good could be Cloudstreet by Winton though I think that's something standard English students could do. Oh and a Finding Neverland/JM Barrie's Peter Pan could be interesting too.
In short, advanced English blows. LOL. No, I like it but I just wish that I was/will be doing texts that I actually enjoy. /whinesession.
EDIT: There's a Hongky flick called "ChungKing Express" and it's pretty damn awesome. Doing a foreign film <3333. Wai's lighting and stage directions are just so unique and all the lights are psychadelic and wowowowowow. /fangirlism.
For me, my favourite text of all time is To Kill a Mockingbird. Omg, it's such an awesome book and I love it so much. LOL. Ahhh, just thinking about the characters make me so jealous! (Minus all the racism and all that negative jazz.) Learning it in depth would be so much better than learning about the plot/themes/characters like I did in year ten, because both the book and movie deserve more than merely an analysis of its characters. More deeper issues to look into.
Other than that I think that the Emma/Clueless module is silly because it's like comparing a Californian bristlecone pine tree, so regal and beautiful to some grotesque... tree... thing planted merely one and a half decades ago. A classic from the English Canon compared to some teenage flick. Mkay, sounding like a teacher here... I don't know what other transformation would be good to do because all transformations these days seem to wash up and are left to dry.
At my school we do Powerplay: Antony and Cleopatra which is pretty interesting, Wild Swans by Chang which might be interesting too. I wish we could study a movie aside from Clueless... I'm good with speeches so maybe the speeches module would be good for me also. Speaking of AOS - we are the last year to be doing Journeys, right?
Hmm, other texts which are good could be Cloudstreet by Winton though I think that's something standard English students could do. Oh and a Finding Neverland/JM Barrie's Peter Pan could be interesting too.
In short, advanced English blows. LOL. No, I like it but I just wish that I was/will be doing texts that I actually enjoy. /whinesession.
EDIT: There's a Hongky flick called "ChungKing Express" and it's pretty damn awesome. Doing a foreign film <3333. Wai's lighting and stage directions are just so unique and all the lights are psychadelic and wowowowowow. /fangirlism.
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