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[bored of sc]

our school is doing frankenstein (spelling?) not that I care (I don't do extension english

 

[Aerath]

We start studying Emma by Jane Austen and Clueless soon though

Wow, people are still doing Emma and Clueless?

 

[Sarah182]

Wow, people are still doing Emma and Clueless?

Yeah our teacher said its been used as an Advanced English HSC text before

 

[Rhanoct]

They're dropping postermodernism in 09'

 

[dpospination]

we are doing heart of darkness, apocalypse now and TS Elliot, the Hollow Men

 

[ekdownie]

we are doing 'the appropriation of the super hero myth into a modern context'

really interesting aye....our assessment is bloody hard though

 

[AZIDA]

Ghostworldddd

 

[gabrielleh]

Ergh at the moment we are doing the topic 'Challenging Authority".
The texts we are studying are:
Prometheus Bound (play)
Paradise Lost (poem)
V for Vendetta (movie)

Fun 0.o'

 

[dpospination]

english extension is reeally good- very interesting

 

[Sarah182]

We're doing a massive assignment at the moment, a 7-8 minute speech about the evolution of the superhero and we also represent our speech using visual aids

 

[catherinet]

We're doing Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" and it's appropriations "Kiss Me Kate" and "10 Things I Hate About You".

 

[bored of sc]

We're doing Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" and it's appropriations "Kiss Me Kate" and "10 Things I Hate About You".

Wow, I did Taming of the Shrew in year 8, but that was only a close study.

 

[Aerath]

I'd rather do 8 min speeches than my 3 minute one. It's so hard fitting everything in.

 

[supermoo]

We're doing Thomas More's Utopia.

Yeah we are too.

...

Here is a gun. Please shoot me now before I die of boredom.

 

[Aerath]

Supermoo, if you don't mind me asking, who are you?

By the way - what texts are you using for your AoS (I think it's Secret and Lies or something similar?)

 

[shellzed]

We're doing the fucking Odyssey. I want to burn it.

 

[jazzbaby]

im getting sick of these lessons at 7.40 AM

 

[marcquelle]

Were doing Super Creeps and Scary Monsters
We've read Dracula, Watched a few episodes of Angel and Buffy, looked at mythical creatures and now were doing an IRP

 

[hollyy.]

in yr 11 i did:
fairy tales
then appropriations:
pygmalion -> pretty woman &
pride and prejudice -> bridget jones

+ yr 12 = crime fiction (soo sick of it now)

 

[the-derivative]

im getting sick of these lessons at 7.40 AM

Quit. I did!
See the light... and quit extension english..
Iunno, ever since I quit, I felt the urge to get others to follow..