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ENGLISH! (All courses welcome =D) (1 Viewer)

terwrath

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Area of Study: Change

Focus: Changing Worlds

Prescribed Text: Poetry of Les Murray

'Sydney and the Bush'
'Driving Through Sawmill Towns'
'Spring Hail'
'An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow'

grr my class is behind we have not done any poems yet
 

jiey2k

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haha hey guysss

my adv. eng subject is changee too!!! we are doing great expectations by charles dickens.. jsut watched a modernised movie of itt..~~

for ext. im doing transformations, also how values and beliefs can affect our thoughts... yeh we had to "re-make" a fairytale..i chose Jack and the beanstalk ^-^
 

~aussiegirl!~

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we are doing the unit of fame and celebrity!
And reading Asturias!
Can i just say the book would be more exciting if my teacher wasn't soo boring!
 

Jachie

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OMG. The Piano is an awesome movie. It's on TV right now, actually.
 

ShadowSwifter

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Jachie said:
OMG. The Piano is an awesome movie. It's on TV right now, actually.
Did you just say THE PIANO!!!! AHHHH...farout the scene where the "guy" chops of Ada's finger was gruesome man:eek:...and the random sex scenes.:bomb:..but overall it's awesome alright, otherwise it wouldn't have been selected as an HSC English material, right?
 
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fallenstar

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Advanced - "Change" + Othello
Extension - Short Stories + 'Heart of Darkness' by Conrad
 

sasa-o8

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Doing advanced - Changing worlds...Poems by Les Murray. FREAKING BORING!!
 

what--if

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Advanced: The topic of 'fear', studying The Crucible :)
Ext 1: Romanticism and the Gothic genre, studying Frankenstein.

They're really great topics, although I would have loved to have done 'change' in advanced :(
 

jkylk

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Advanced: Judith Wright poems
Ext. : Satire, learning about feminism, marxism, Freudian readings and will be looking at extracts of texts in the Canon
 

fiona.p

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im doing advanced english and ext

in adv we're studying doing change and using "Othello" as the text
in ext we're doing odysseys and using "the pdyssey" as the text...that is the most boringest book ever!! Took me so long to read it!
 

beckaa

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We're reconstructing fairy tales in ext.

In advanced we have to choose 4 texts (ON CHANGE) and do a speech on them. They can't be the same type of text though, so I have a book (So Much To Tell You - John Marsden), a song ( American Pie - Don Mclean), a movie (if you'd call it that - Harvie Krumpet) and i desperatly need a fourth one.

Any ideas? A poem, short story, speech, newspaper article or something? I am at a complete loss and the progress report is already due!
 
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maddiekb91

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ahhhh im doing the same subjects but we are studying the persona of the outsider and i need a good short story to analyse?? any ideas??
 

Amy-ish

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Advanced: Judith Wright Poems and Changing Perspectives
So for that, we have a written speech due with two texts from Judith Wright, one given text: Sky High or The Door and two related texts we have to find ourselves.:eek:
Ext: Fairytales for year 11, with a speech due in second term and we were told for year 12, we will be studying Crime Fiction.:)
 

thebeardedlady

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Eng Adv
Area of Study:
Identity
Text:
Maestro.
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Crap. Crap crap crap. Possibly worst area and text ever. Terrible.

Eng Ext
Area of Study:
Fairy tales.
Key Texts:
Cinderella, Snow White, Hansel and Gretel, Little Red Riding Hood.
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Best. Topic. Ever. Great texts, great opportunity to use the word "cinderfella".

PS: Hansel and Gretel deserve to DIE.
 

piinkpriinc3ss

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My skoolz doin doppleganger in my advanced english class - great book n extension+advanced iz doin heart of darkness .. im doin change too i gotta do a speech on change in perspective .. any ideasn of related texts??
 

diametric

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No-one seems to be doing Authority and the Individual... for Eng. Adv.

Read Fahrenheit 451. Read Whose Life is it Anyway?... Done a few poems... Currently watching The Shawshank Redemption...

Nice stuff.

Just moved over to Reportage:

Started reading Hiroshima... Reading the Crucible next...

Nonetheless. We've got a HUGE workload, evil private school. "Must finish prelim. by the end of Term 2 and move over to the HSC in Term 3.."

And, yes, we're in year 10!!!
 

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