Is anyone doing Anything other than Frankenstein in prelim ext eng? (4 Viewers)

[sabgas]

OK ... it seems heaps of u guys are doing Frankenstein as a core text in the Gothic Module!!!

Are all skewl's doing Frankenstein?

Am i the only skewl doing Irish Culture and Literature with Joyce's Portrait as core text and McDonagh's Cripple of Inishmaan as and ART?

Anyone ... reply back!

 

[Silver Persian]

We're doing Romeo and Juliet as our core text.

It's as boring as all hell.

 

[nawtyalissa]

I think we are going to be doin frankenstein next term.. that, or Bram Stoker's Dracula. so far weve done -
The Castle Of Otranto - Horace Walpole
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
and a bit of Poe..
Anyone else done those?

 

[elyse_h]

we're doing frankenstein, dracula and the films from the 'alien' series

 

[_muse_]

in first term we did a critical study of 'the great gatsby'
this term we're doing a critical study of 'snow falling of cedars' from a romance genre perspective
and next term we're concentrating on our individual projects we're we have to study a film/book and it's appropriation

 

[boasboy]

^^

for the gothic module part..
we did frankenstein, bram stokers dracula and alien.

english ext. is the most interesting subject.. ^^.

 

[*girl04*]

we arent even doing the gothic module. we are doing the heroine module ...

 

[almost normal]

in my ext. class we're studying quest genre, and king arthur...i prefer ext. to adv though, its a 4 person class and its alot easier to learn in a classroom thats happy to be there.

 

[Alaranth]

We're not doing any of those! We're doing the Pygmalion texts, starting with the Myth, then the Bernard Shaw play, the My Fair Lady, then Pretty Woman. It's annoying though, cos we only have 4 lessons a fortnight, so we've been doing pretty Woman almost all this term!
In adv, we've done One Night the Moon, Buffy, The Riders, Harry Lavender, and Mestro. I think we're also doing Othello and Boweling for Columbine.

 

[truly-in-bliss]

i did Huck Finn and that was the borringest book ever... though i did learn something from mark twain..

"dont let education stop you from learning"....

 

[kpq_sniper017]

i think schools must choose random books to study....

with huck finn....isn't/wasn't that an hsc text?

 

[truly-in-bliss]

hahahah.. yeah...but with selective skools they do everything 1 yr earli

 

[Sarah168]

I thought there was a rule that HSC texts are banned from being taught until the commencing HSC year...

 

[my sharona]

last year
did the tell-tale heart - poe
the others - film by (someone?)

 

[truly-in-bliss]

Originally posted by Sarah168
I thought there was a rule that HSC texts are banned from being taught until the commencing HSC year...

well as if they do that in real life... james ruse and syd grammar totalli cheat the rules...

 

[Sarah168]

Originally posted by truly-in-bliss
well as if they do that in real life... james ruse and syd grammar totalli cheat the rules...

grrr :angry:

 

[kpq_sniper017]

Originally posted by Sarah168
grrr :angry:

hhmm..
well, i heard about that rule too

ah well.
i think i'd leave it to the school to decide. if they want to break the rules, then let them. all it means is that the UAIs of 99+ really aren't an indication of academic ability.

but remember the cliche: "rules are made to be broken"

 

[Sarahj]

My first core text was 'The Riders' by Tim Winton, my second was 'Othello' by WS, and I dunno what my third is yet.

 

[jessyboo]

at my skool there are 3 ext classes and every single one is studying HEART OF DARKNESS.... a painfully boring pre-1900 cokarse book with 3 chapters!

 

[kpq_sniper017]

Originally posted by jessyboo
at my skool there are 3 ext classes and every single one is studying HEART OF DARKNESS.... a painfully boring pre-1900 cokarse book with 3 chapters!

3 classes?
whoa, what school is this? an english-crazy school?
at my school there's only one class of about 30.