English Paper 1 + 2 Completed!

oRlyYaRly

Yayness. I think I got an A. What essay did ya'll pick? I found Media Studies a lil hard.

philologos

sometimes what you think doesn't happen unfortunately, but its good that you think you got on well

PurpleFistMixer

Jaysus way to be a downer.


What were the essay options?

oRlyYaRly

There was one where you had to write about what pet you'd love to have, real or not.

The one I did was a picture of a dog with a wig and you had to write a composition inspired by it.

That's all I can remember.

deltablaze

w00t! Just came home and I think I did real well in my Honours English, I'd say I got a B! I'm so happy because I was real nervous at first then it was grand.

BMH

Also:

2. The Talking Goldfish
3. Fictional characters I would like to meet
4. A day in my life I would like to relive
5. Write a compostition including the line, "It had been a lot of hard work and had taken ages but, in the end, it was worth the effort.
6. Everybody deserves a second chance -the one I did, I did the death penalty and crime and punishment. Wasn't great
8. Write a speech for or against the motion: "Having a job during the school year is bad for Second Level Students.


The Media Studies was very interesting, I might scan and upload it.


paper Two wasn't bad, though I rushed myself when I thought it ended at 3.30, and then found out it didn't end till four and had to go back through the paper polishing off things. Unseen Poetry was terrible though:


Van Gogh's Yellow Chair by Mark Roper

I would love to sit
in the yellow chair
in the painting

when a shadow lies
like a shy animal
in a corner

and the day's air
is like water in which
small noises swim

I would sit there
safe from harm
safe from all surprise.

Beyond the frame
on every side
the outside world

would open wide
but I'd have crossed
the great divide

so long as I never
rose from
the yellow chair.



Q1. "I would love to sit
in the yellow chair
in the painting"

What is so appealing about Van Gogh's yellow chair, according to the speaker? Explain your answer with reference to the poem

Q2. In your own words explain what is being said in the last three stanzas.

3. What is your favourite image from the poem? Explain your choice.

BMH

Yeah, I said eyebrows were hay. Then I went on to say how the market were farmers as the cosmentics industry is used by a lot of city men, but not by countrymen = )


Otherwise, both papers went smoothly enough.

carpothepunk

That picture will be forever known as "Ploughyman"

Id say i got roughly a B too.

carpothepunk

I said his forehead looked like plough lines.

The essays were ****,i did the fictional characters one.

Jello

I thought it went pretty well.
The only tough parts for me were Media Studies (wtf?) and the Unseen Poetry.

oRlyYaRly

Question: Are we allowed to swear when answering questions if you're quoting the poem?

oRlyYaRly

Somebody scan it. I want it as my wallpaper.

Jello

oRlyYaRly wrote:

Question: Are we allowed to swear when answering questions if you're quoting the poem?

Yeah I think so. I said Jackass somewhere in relation to To Kill A Mockingbird but I supose that's not really swearing...

carpothepunk

oRlyYaRly wrote:

Question: Are we allowed to swear when answering questions if you're quoting the poem?

The scraggy wee ****s?

Yes you are!

oRlyYaRly

carpothepunk wrote:

The scraggy wee ****s?

Yes you are!

That's the one!

PurpleFistMixer

Swearing can either piss off an examiner if it's excessive and they're sensitive, or it'll make you look like you have no vocabulary.
If the swearing is IN your quote though, I'd say it's grand. Otherwise I'd tend to avoid it...

Piste

Before hand we were looking at the pic and talking about it (we got the picture before the paper) and some girls asked what it was and I explained it was meant to look like a ploughed field.

If they get As I'm claiming them.


Did anyone else really dislike the unseen poem and Fiction?

PurpleFistMixer

Okay, I'm gonna merge this thread into the other English thread, I think one thread for each exam/subject is grand...

BLARG

carpothepunk wrote:

The scraggy wee ****s?

Yes you are!

I love it when teachers say that.

I did talking goldfish.

Twinkle-star15

I was so happy!! Oh my god, that was so much simpler than I thought! 'Cept for the poetry- I had to do 'Funeral Blues' with thought. Obscure connection (if there even was one), but it was the only one I could do.

oRlyYaRly

Piste wrote:

Before hand we were looking at the pic and talking about it (we got the picture before the paper) and some girls asked what it was and I explained it was meant to look like a ploughed field.

If they get As I'm claiming them.


Did anyone else really dislike the unseen poem and Fiction?

Hated the poem. The Fiction was good but I didn't like the questions.

Piste

I paniced at first with Poetry, then I realised by twisting some of my words I had and answer to perfectly fit the question on a poet's thoughts.

BLARG

What did you all do for the meaning of the last 3 stanzas in the unseen poetry?

PurpleFistMixer

Piste wrote:

Before hand we were looking at the pic and talking about it (we got the picture before the paper) and some girls asked what it was and I explained it was meant to look like a ploughed field.

Yeah, I kinda.. told about three girls what a word in Irish meant just after we got the paper. It was one of the key words for the comhra so I was doing them a big favour.
Unfortunately nobody got an A I could claim.

(edit: this was the irish paper of course)

BMH

BLARG wrote:

What did you all do for the meaning of the last 3 stanzas in the unseen poetry?

I didn't. I wrote about how great an image sounds swimming in air was "becuase it made the concept of sound simpler and easier to understand" :sigh:

carpothepunk

I said something along of lines of "He would let the ground swallow him up,and he would cross between life and death if he did it in that chair"

JC06

I did the essay(no. 5) where you had to put the sentence somewhere into the story(i dont think it was any good though!) The unseen poetry was ok once you got into it.The 'invisible man' thing was ok too.I think my best question was the last question on a novel you have studied.Name a person in the novel you would like or wouldnt like to be.I was surprised by the amount of people who didnt realise that the old mans forehead was a field.

BMH

I didn't realise it was a forehead for a while...

Who the hell has hay for eyebrows?!

Piste

BMH wrote:

I didn't. I wrote about how great an image sounds swimming in air was "becuase it made the concept of sound simpler and easier to understand" :sigh:

I wrote about how the poet felt safe in the "water" because there's just noises swimming around and no barracudas or sharks to eat him.

The fiction section wasn't great for me, I ran out of time on the last question, so although I managed to write about a page on Maycomb I only had about a paragraph or two on how the setting contributes to the plot.

Does anyone know how muc h(roughly) is acceptable for what marks?

Like how much should I have written for 10,15,20 and 30 marks?

Jello

I think about three people in my group copped that it was a field with plough marks. Sadly, I wasn't one of them. Ah well.

carpothepunk

Piste wrote:

I wrote about how the poet felt safe in the "water" because there's just noises swimming around and no barracudas or sharks to eat him.

The fiction section wasn't great for me, I ran out of time on the last question, so although I managed to write about a page on Maycomb I only had about a paragraph or two on how the setting contributes to the plot.

I got a page on Maycomb too,and a couple nice quotes.Only got about 6 lines on how it contributed though.

Fitzo

as far as i acn figure out (and i didnt write thisin the exam!) the lines on his forehead are ploughlines in a field and the gap between his eyebrows is the entrance to the field, with the cap as a fence!!!

Did ok i think though!!!

Roll on maths and irish...or not!:cool:

BMH

I did roughly a page for studied fiction and poetry and a bit more for studied drama.

Piste

JC06 wrote:

I was surprised by the amount of people who didnt realise that the old mans forehead was a field.

A girl in my class thought it was a female reproductive system before she copped

So then she wrote about what a bad ad it was

oRlyYaRly

The national ploughing championship gave it away, don't you think? :eek:

I didn't know what the hell it was until I read that.

Jello

Piste wrote:

I wrote about how the poet felt safe in the "water" because there's just noises swimming around and no barracudas or sharks to eat him.

The fiction section wasn't great for me, I ran out of time on the last question, so although I managed to write about a page on Maycomb I only had about a paragraph or two on how the setting contributes to the plot.

Does anyone know how muc h(roughly) is acceptable for what marks?

Like how much should I have written for 10,15,20 and 30 marks?

The same thing happened to me...I ran out of time for the second part after writing loads about Maycomb.
For 30 marks you're expected to write about a page and a half. For two questions worth 15 marks each it should also be 1 and a half pages in total.
For 10 marks about half a page, I'd say.

BMH

Piste wrote:

A girl in my class thought it was a female reproductive system before she copped

So then she wrote about what a bad ad it was

Heh, it was one if the things that went through my head before I just went with the obvious.

JC06

Fitzo wrote:

as far as i acn figure out (and i didnt write thisin the exam!) the lines on his forehead are ploughlines in a field and the gap between his eyebrows is the entrance to the field, with the cap as a fence!!!

Did ok i think though!!!

Roll on maths and irish...or not!:cool:

I wrote that his cap was a cornfield lol ooops!:D

Piste

BMH wrote:

Heh, it was one if the things that went through my head before I just went with the obvious.

I really, really hope you're a guy.

BMH

Piste wrote:

I really, really hope you're a guy.

Yup, studying science the night before...

Jello

Piste wrote:

I really, really hope you're a guy.

No info in his/her profile besides the fact that he/she's 26........:eek:

Piste

Mamma Mia!

BMH

*Fix'd*

Jello

BMH wrote:

*Fix'd*

Haha.

PurpleFistMixer

I think I used to go by a little over a paragraph per 5 marks. So a 10 mark question is 2 or 3 paragraphs, 15 mark is 3 or 4, and a 20 mark is just a two page essay. That'd be like, 5 paragraphs plus opening and closing paragraphs.

Fitzo

which unseen drama did everyone do????

i did the shakesperean one as i really found the other pointless and a bit confusing!!!

Piste

I did the other one, found it quite easy. I did the question about costume for it which was easy enough marks to pick up.

Slippin Jimmy

I did the shakesphere drama, it was easy eough. I taught that Paper 1 was a little tricky, but paper 2 was dead handy. I am not lookin forward to the Irish tomorrow, but maths should be alright. I done the essay on a day in my life i would like to revisit, or at least sometin to that nature. I did the essay on a snow day. I don't think i did that well in the essay. I just went on bout gettin up and light of the curtains on the wall, and the steam of the tea rising. Pelting teachers with snowballs. I think I did ok overall.

BlueSpiral

I finished both twenty minutes early. And in the mocks i didn't complete either of them.

What did people say for the media studies, the one with the farmer's forehead?:p I didn't know what to write, but someone told me afterwards that it was supposed to symbolise a ploughed field...

I did the shakespeare one.
"I wonder if the bear is finished with the gentleman". For some reason I found that was something to giggle at.

Piste

I laughed so hard when my friend told me the Shakespearean drama had a man getting eaten by a bear

Fitzo

BlueSpiral wrote:

I did the shakespeare one.
"I wonder if the bear is finished with the gentleman". For some reason I found that was something to giggle at.

in the unseen novel " it was hard at first. Really Hard."

i had a little laugh i'll admit cause it just happened to catch my eye!:D