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I dug my own grave today (signed up for ex2 english) (1 Viewer)
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Giant Lobster
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ohhh crap.. didnt see that one coming.
so wat shud i do if im not analytical nor creative? besides dropping...
hmmsee i have this thing with webdesign where i spend 90% on how cool it looks and i wont get any actual content in for a long time... do markers care whether ur site looks aiight or not? and does the site need to stick to one set purpose, like say u did fairytale psychology, was ur site wholly analyses on psychological insight / implications etc of fairytales? if so, that be kinda hard cos its a website. it it were somefin like a crit response then i cud see it being done but... ugh so confused.
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4 u eng and 4u maths is the best thing ever.......not hard at all.
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Hey I'm in year 11 and also chose ext 2 for next year...
I'm kinda worried though cos I'm also doing drama... which means im gonna have 2 major works due within about a week of eachother i think... kinda freaky...
I think I'll probably do a critical response, I'm not completely sure what on yet, what kind of critical responses have people done in the past?
I'm kinda worried though cos I'm also doing drama... which means im gonna have 2 major works due within about a week of eachother i think... kinda freaky...
I think I'll probably do a critical response, I'm not completely sure what on yet, what kind of critical responses have people done in the past?
if you have a look in the forum, youll see that both Jinglebell and I have done critical responses on "The Simpsons".
mine analysed "The Simpsons" in terms of its reflection on American society.
Jinglebell related "The Simpsons" to Shakespearean aspects - i think thats right!
you can write a critical response on almost anything, as long as you can relate it to an aspect of your regular English course, and as long as you have a thesis to follow.
mine analysed "The Simpsons" in terms of its reflection on American society.
Jinglebell related "The Simpsons" to Shakespearean aspects - i think thats right!
you can write a critical response on almost anything, as long as you can relate it to an aspect of your regular English course, and as long as you have a thesis to follow.
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nice remembering babydoll, basically i just compared the two in terms of the themes of race, religion and gender...
and yeah, pretty much anything goes...of the two other critical response girls at my school, one did the interrelationship of love and death in victorian literature, and the other did good and evil in 'lord of the rings'...although all three of us were mightily upstaged by the other girl who did an absolutely hilarious video
Giant Lobster
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ur sig dun look very promising...
how long is a critical response? i always struggle with word length... and do u find urself running out of commonly used phrases / words like "in turn - in doing so - therefore - furthermore - in relation to - in contrast with - in comparison" etc etc ? cos i can see that they wud be used heaps if it were a critical response. unless i got my definition of a critical resp all wrong / i dunno how to write beyond a yr 10 lvl
... i imagine that would be hard to overcome if a response was 7k++ words long... .woe is me. dont worry it comes to you naturally...youll have many many revisions to fix everything up, dont think of it as one project think of it as an ongoing series of tasks culminatiing in the major work...since your response would probably change from the original concept, etc....
speaking from experience my original intention to do a website was dashed and then the story not only changed from a conventional hero/badguy to schizophrenic rock self eulogising upon the true nature of humanity and its ultimate destruction..
soo you see its a good choice and like i stated b4 i wuld not swap that year for anything else
speaking from experience my original intention to do a website was dashed and then the story not only changed from a conventional hero/badguy to schizophrenic rock self eulogising upon the true nature of humanity and its ultimate destruction..
soo you see its a good choice and like i stated b4 i wuld not swap that year for anything else
Giant Lobster
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uhh but its possible to finish the whole work in say 1 or 2 weeks of holidays right? if i dedicate say 4 hours / day to get it all done...
that COULD work but you shouldnt really do it like that.
After a term or two of extensive research, you should start composing... that way you have about 1 term to compose... 1 term to edit... and you must also take into account that you'll have tasks such as the Report, the Viva Voces etc. to do as well.
ARE YOU INSANE ??? .... sure you probably could... but that would defeat the purpose of doing Extension 2!!!...you signed in cos you WANT to be stressed, to be panic-striken, to be driven to the point of madness ( or pushed over )...thats what it is to be a true Extension 2 student
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from experience, doing the whole thing in a single week (more or less), can be very stressful. Don't listen to all these people who say you got to spend an entire year on the work. i mean, you can if you want, all it does is alleviate the stress off a single week in the holidays, right before trials. You can do it in a week if you got any motivation, and if you already got the ideas.
Jinglebell
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exactly...i say that those who finish early and condescendingly watch the stress-monkeys half kill themselves are bad sports and not a true part of the ext 2 community.Originally posted by AsyLum
ARE YOU INSANE ??? .... sure you probably could... but that would defeat the purpose of doing Extension 2!!!...you signed in cos you WANT to be stressed, to be panic-striken, to be driven to the point of madness ( or pushed over )...thats what it is to be a true Extension 2 student
Giant Lobster
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apart from the viva voce is there any other reason of why i shud spread my workload throughout the year?
wat i figured was to fabricate everything (i fabricate everything, from experimental data in sciences to... life in general). i.e. have an archive of some sort, and being able to pull out journals for relevant dates. that wud be cool, having everything prepared after the christmas holidays. wud that work? hehehe
wat i figured was to fabricate everything (i fabricate everything, from experimental data in sciences to... life in general
). i.e. have an archive of some sort, and being able to pull out journals for relevant dates. that wud be cool, having everything prepared after the christmas holidays. wud that work? hehehe
sugaryblue
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My advice for you is that make sure you have a well-organised timetable. and Most IMPORTANTLY follow it!!
you see, this girl in my school. she was doing two major works at the same time. DT and English Ext 2. She started late in Ext 2 and I mean really really late. I don't know her progress in DT but she ended up dropping it.
Ext 2 english is not as freaky as it sounds if you plan yourself well. in fact, it is a subject that i really enjoyed doing. I dare say that it's the most relaxing subject that I have done (not necessarily saying that I am gonna get a good mark for it though. I grow to hate my MW. In fact, I grow to hate everything I do! Anywayz...)
There is a diversity of critical responses and some of the styles are very unique. I suggest you to have a look at the Major Work Showcase (you lucky year 11, so many show cases to look at!!)
Good luck and have fun!