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English OL Question

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  • 05-06-2013 3:01pm
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    Closet Monkey
    Registered Users Posts: 85 ✭✭


    How many poems/poets do you have to do at minimum? There is about 15 poems on the ordinary course. Do you have to do 14?


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    thefasteriwalk
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    Closet Monkey wrote: »
    How many poems/poets do you have to do at minimum? There is about 15 poems on the ordinary course. Do you have to do 14?

    Do you mean the poems only prescribed for ordinary level? I'm assuming your teacher left out all the higher level poems. In which case, there are 16 poems - 2 of which will be on the paper tomorrow. This means that, yes, you should look over 15 to be guaranteed having revised at least 1 that will appear tomorrow. Remember - the poems will be printed on the page, but you're still expected to know them quite well. The questions will assume a certain level of prior engagement with the poem.


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    IsKelleh
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    What are all 16 of the poems?


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    thefasteriwalk
    Registered Users Posts: 565 ✭✭✭thefasteriwalk


    IsKelleh wrote: »
    What are all 16 of the poems?

    What poetry book do you have? It should be the 16 that go from John Milton to David Wheatley.


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    IsKelleh
    Registered Users Posts: 6 ✭IsKelleh


    I have the Poetry Now Book but Neither of those two are in it, but I could look up the poems


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    thefasteriwalk
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    IsKelleh wrote: »
    I have the Poetry Now Book but Neither of those two are in it, but I could look up the poems

    Yes, they are. Go to the contents page - after 'Part 1' there's a list of 16 poems. It goes from 'For Heidi...' to 'A Summer Morning.' It's those 16, but your teacher may have done the other list - Part II. There will be four poems on the exam - two from each 'Part'.


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    IsKelleh
    Registered Users Posts: 6 ✭IsKelleh


    Awh Damn, I have the Higher level book.


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    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,231 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    IsKelleh wrote: »
    Awh Damn, I have the Higher level book.
    Good man. Preparation is everything!

    ;)


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    IsKelleh
    Registered Users Posts: 6 ✭IsKelleh


    Could you be able to give me the titles of those poems and i'll look them up for the night?


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    IsKelleh
    Registered Users Posts: 6 ✭IsKelleh


    Hahahaha I'm a mess


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    thefasteriwalk
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    IsKelleh wrote: »
    Awh Damn, I have the Higher level book.

    Have you just dropped from Higher? Do the Higher Level poems so. There are 20 of them prescribed for Ordinary Level. Check out pages 9 and 10 of this:

    http://www.education.ie/en/Circulars-and-Forms/Active-Circulars/cl0004_2011.pdf

    The 20 on the list from Sheakespeare, Wordsworth, Hopkins, Bishop, Kinsella, Rich, Plath and Mahom are the ones you need to focus on. Two of them will appear tomorrow. You answer on one.


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    endacl
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    IsKelleh wrote: »
    Could you be able to give me the titles of those poems and i'll look them up for the night?
    http://bit.ly/181XArd


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    Brendan1234
    Registered Users Posts: 32 ✭Brendan1234


    IsKelleh wrote: »
    Hahahaha I'm a mess

    I just dropped from higher level and I'm pretty much in the same boat. Does anybody know how much we're expected to write for the comparative and the single text ?


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    thefasteriwalk
    Registered Users Posts: 565 ✭✭✭thefasteriwalk


    Brendan1234 wrote: »
    I just dropped from higher level and I'm pretty much in the same boat. Does anybody know how much we're expected to write for the comparative and the single text ?

    Comparative: c.800 words.

    Single Text (writing size dependent):

    10 marks = half - three quarter of a page
    30 marks = one - one and half pages


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    Closet Monkey
    Registered Users Posts: 85 ✭✭Closet Monkey


    well this is refering to the mocks marking scheme so im not sure if its right:

    single text: q1 -1pg q2 - 1/2 pg q3 - 1pg

    comparative: (a) - 1pg (b) - 1 and 1/2 pgs

    also does anyone here just need to pass.


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    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,231 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Should y'all not be studying?


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    IsKelleh
    Registered Users Posts: 6 ✭IsKelleh


    I just need to pass


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    Brendan1234
    Registered Users Posts: 32 ✭Brendan1234


    Thanks, yeah I just need to pass.


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