English Paper Two

Raphael

How did you all do? What did you all do?

Section I - King Lear - (i)
Section II - Theme/Issue - 2
Section III - Unseen - 1
Prescribed - Micheal Longely

Thought the longely question was absolutely fantastic

Orizio

Didn't quite get the Cultural Context question finished.Got everything else done,however two of my fingers were falling off and my brain got a bit lazy whilst I was doing the prescribed poetry,so the answer was a lot weaker then it should have been.

TBH I'm just happy the whole thing is done.I could have done better,but I'm thinking a C overall.

willowmegs

Section I - King Lear - (i)
Section II - Theme/Issue - 2
Section III - Unseen - 2
Prescribed - Thomas Hardy

Rockin' paper!!!

michelle_ie

King Lear- the second question i pure bull ****ted my way through!
Cultural Context-
MICHAEL LONGLEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and i did like part 2 of the prescribed poetry then 10 mins to go i crossed it out and did part 1

lovely paper very very happy!

grimloch

Paper two was much nice than one.

Lord Oz

It wasn't a bad paper, but I was just so tired. I couldn't remember who wrote "A view from the bridge" for half an hour, I though it was arthur c clark for some reason. The questions were easy enough, the only poet I knew well, hardy came up. Lear was easy, did the first question. Comparative was a little sloppy though. I did theme/issue.

blahhh

Paper 2 was good good

But my comparative was crap....I dunno what I was talking about....

My hand is so sore and my chair was uncomfy...I was getting frustrated sitting in there, so I didn't do me best :cool:

Attractive Nun

Did the Lear/Gloucester/mirror essay. I had an exact sample essay written out for it, but not the best one. Still, decent enough essay it was.

I did the three texts Cultural Context one, bit of a weird question with the "enjoyment" thing, but I think I managed it well.

Then I got sooooo tired and made a bit of a shambles of the unseen.

Recovered nicely for a beaut of a Donne essay.

Overall, very happy with what came up, if a bit put off by some awkward questions. I'd be disappointed if I don't get an A in Paper 2.

OctavarIan

Lear Question (i)
Cultural Context Question 1
Unseen Question 2
Hardy

Sweet paper. Comparitive a bit iffy, but still solid enough.

CrimE

I thought they were really nice papers! Did well on everything except the essay, which I waffled in for only 3 pages and it was all crap! Ah well, never have to use English ever again...:)

On paper II I did:
King Lear (ii)
Comparative- Theme or Issue- (ii)
Unseen- (ii)
Poetry- Hardy

Pleased overall!

Zapp Brannigan

Paper 2: Did Lear (i)
Cultural Context (ii)
Unseen Poetry (i)
Prescribed Poetry: Longley.

Ya didnt have to put an address at the top of the Longley one did ya?

shane0312

Paper 2: Did Lear (ii)
Theme or Issue (ii)
Unseen Poetry (i)
Prescribed Poetry: Hardy.

Raphael

Slurms: I did, better safe than sorry. Doubt you;d lose marks for not having it though

nedward

Did
Hardy
Theme or Issue (ii)
Lear (ii)

Q (ii) on Lear was basically the same as 2002 question

Rockerette

Pride & Prejudice, question about Elizabeth & Dacry
Theme Or Issue - did that first, most marks, may as well do it right
Hardy - ok, ran out of time, and a lot of dodgy cheesy lines in there.

Gangsta

Lear (ii) - Pretty well
Cultural Context Q1-Ah jesus I was rushing to get this done, hope to God I did ok
Hardy- Essay learned off and restructed to suit title, aww yeah!!

Got it done in the end but cultural context not to my aspired quality

tweetypie

King Lear - part (i) - I messed that up completely!
Cultural Context (ii)
Unseen Poem (ii)
And my favourite poet Longley!

Nice Paper overall!:)

Sawa

Section I - King Lear - 2, i totally bull****ted my way thru that one! it was so vague tho! (3 pages)
Section II - Cultural Context - 2 didnt like the way it had the enjoyable bit to it!? (5 pages)
Section III - Unseen - 1 (bout 5 lines!!)
Prescribed - Micheal Longely (4 pages)

Grand!

Faerie

Lear/Gloucester essay
Cultural context understanding cultural context
Unseen poetry question 1 (I should have done question 2!)
Bishop

Rob30888

I was surprised so few people did the second Lear q :eek:

My hand was falling off me, I don't know how on earth it was done last year with 20minutes less time! I just about got done, but needed time to read over.

Very fair paper though, if too predictable...

iggyman

king lear..lear/glouscester...

comparitive ..theme and issue..

prescribed .. bishop

abercrombie

Rob30888 wrote:

Very fair paper though, if too predictable...

it wasn't too predictable...it was just right

Section I - King Lear - (ii) not the best question i ever did, but tried my best
Section II - Theme/Issue - 2 went ok
Section III - Unseen - 1 did anyone else really like that poem
Prescribed - Thomas Hardy - started with this as i knew him backwards!

Funkstard

Comparative: Theme/Issue, just a matter of regurgitating an essay

Poetry: Bishop, went fine, only described 4 poems though

Lear: ii), Rambled majorly here, didn't get time to read over it but it was long and there was quotes all over the place so it can't have been too bad.

How long was everyone's answer on the unseen poetry? Mine was only a page and a bit

abercrombie

mine was a page and a half..loved the poem though!

tinka

abercrombie wrote:

mine was a page and a half..loved the poem though!

my friend's grandad wrote that poem!

Lear question 2
cultural context question 2
unseen question 2
bishop

bishop question went so badly

NADA

Wrote about three quarters of a page for unseen poem. Still confident of an A/b!

smemon

NADA wrote:

Wrote about three quarters of a page for unseen poem. Still confident of an A/b!

likewise, just under a page.

i compared the child to 'the terminater'

deisedolly

Lear Q1, I just talked the usual ****e that we've had hammered into us about the two boys and through in aloud of quotes, nothing outstanding

Theme/Issue Q2, there is a possibiliy i misenterpreted the question, i wrote a whole lot of BS!

Unseen Q2, starting to get tired at this point and knowing it was worth so little marks didn't put my all into it, quite a half arsed attempt really

Bishop, know her back to front and out of the 2 papers this is the only question I know I've done well in!

Edit: haha my spelling is terrible I'm just after realising! Oh well no more english woohooo!

ThrownAway

As You Like It - I read some stuff on it last night at like one in the morning and it stayed in my memory

Theme or Issue part two

Bishop

my unseen was a page a bit too which is fine for 20 marks like

Raphael

Mine was just a page

roberta c

they double bluffed us, the *uckers! the paper was so pedictable, that noone predicted it!bah!... ok il shut up now...

did lear, (i)
cutl context (ii)
longley

just one question, i know its a bit late now! but, i only wrote about one poem cause i ran of time.. will it matter much?

Tellox

Loved paper 2, very handy questions.

Lear - Q1
Themes & Issues - Q2
Unseen poetry - Q1
Poetry - Bishop

Unseen poem was very nice and vague, easy to skew in your own opinion on what the message behind it was.

unreg1987

Ohh God I was fairly prepared going in but my hand started hurting really badly halfway through, didnt get enough written

Lear - Q1
Cultural Context - Q2
Unseen poetry - Q1
Poetry - Bishop

On a random thought: why are all english teachers doing King Lear? I mean ffs, Pride and Prejudice or any decent novel would b so much easier to answer on, besides being a more interesting read.

roberta c

you have to do a shakespear, at honors level anyway...

casanova_kid

Lear.....the second question
Poetry...Bishop
Comparitive....cultural context.the B part
Unseen Poem.Question 1.
I didn't like the comparitive, found it hard to get inot. Poetry was a beaut, the unseen poem was class and the lear question was fairly straightforward.