c-o-m-p-a-r-a-t-i-v-e Q (Eng HL)

declan_lgs

how many texts are you comparing? Our teacher is having us do 3 when lots and lots of people seem to be doing just 2

We're doing:
wuthering heights,
strictly ballroom and
philadelphia here i come

some other students who are getting grinds (which is many of them) have had grinds teachers tell them to forget about wuthering heights because it's too difficult. I have no intention to forget about it because it gives me more to write about something I've never written anything about before yet so yerrrr..

What do people think?

cHaTbOx

we're doin three

philadelphia here i come(i think a lot of people are doin it)
cinema paradiso
boyhood

its seems ok just need to do one out on each over next couple of days ,get corrected ,improve and learn.

claire h

With doing 2 there's a risk of limiting which questions you can do, though, isn't there? Some of them specifically ask you to write about one and then compare two others... doing 3 gives you a lot more choice, and more to write about.

PurpleFistMixer

There are some questions where you've to compare at least 2, so you could get away with only studying 2. But 3 texts means you've got more to talk about, more to compare, you wont need to know the texts in as much detail. Just makes it easier I figure, if you've already studied them in school like.

We're doing...
Lies of Silence
The Truman Show
The Crucible.
Don't know the Crucible too well at all, but apparently because it's the third text we don't need to know it inside out.

Diarmsquid

We're doing the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, The Truman Show and The Crucible.

Theme of deception. There's loads to talk about.

KeyLimePie

We studied

How Many Miles to Babylon
The Truman Show
My Left Foot
Philidelphia Here I Come


Haven't decided what 3 I'm gonna use in the exam though

Jay P

We're doing three:

Philadelphia, Here I Come!
Jane Eyre
And either Cinema Parradiso or The Truman Show

Overheal

The only thing Wuthering Heights did right was make me feel like it really did take 30 years to read through it all.

really though if youve read it at all its easy enough to grasp

PurpleFistMixer

Diarmsquid wrote: »

the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

Such an annoying book.

Though my class has come to the conclusion that The Crucible is crap, of course we're not going to go criticising Miller in the LC but come on man, what's with the "4 months later..." in the middle?

thatone!

We're doing philadelphia, How many miles to babylon and cinema paradiso
Have to say cinema paradiso is the best movie I have ever seen

bUILDERtHEbOB

thatone! wrote: »

We're doing philadelphia, How many miles to babylon and cinema paradiso
Have to say cinema paradiso is the best movie I have ever seen

OMFG I'm doing them 3 as well.

glenn3ie

This is a great question because u know it before u go in..

It'll either be:

"Write about a theme or issue in the texts you have studied"

"Write about the cultural context in the texts you have studied"

Or

"Write about literary genre....."

we're just doing cul. con. and theme or issue.

degausserxo

We're doing three aswell; Cinema Paradiso, Purple Hibiscus and the Plough and the Stars.

Mark200

Yeah we're also doing three....

1huge1

Philadelphia Here I come
Old School
The Truman Show

great comparisons between the three, all about the main characters search for truth and a real life

No one else doing Old School?, I like literary genre and theme and issue but not a huge fan of cultural context myself

cHaTbOx

Jay P wrote: »

We're doing three:

Philadelphia, Here I Come!
Jane Eyre
And either Cinema Parradiso or The Truman Show

There is a lot of comparissons between Philadelphia, Here I Come! and cinema paradiso.

boobookitty

- Strictly Ballroom
- Philadelhpia, here I come
- Lies of Silence

I like the ones in blue, I hate Lies of Silence. PHIC and SB are my two best, so if the two part question is nice, I'll do them in (a) and LOS in (b).

ryanj

do 3 texts - it means you get two comparisons per paragraph and you need 8 in total minimum so you can easily write on four paragraphs in your answer. if you used two texts you would have to write 8 paragraphs

SligoBrewer

We're doing Philadelphia, Here I Come
The Plough and the Stars
and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime.

All three very good texts.

boobookitty

ryanj wrote: »

do 3 texts - it means you get two comparisons per paragraph and you need 8 in total minimum so you can easily write on four paragraphs in your answer. if you used two texts you would have to write 8 paragraphs

I'll do that, thanks!

How many quotes are required? Is it something like 1 quote for each point?

The Walsho

boobookitty wrote: »

I'll do that, thanks!

How many quotes are required? Is it something like 1 quote for each point?

Quotes aren't as important here as in the Othello question. I personally just put them in where I see appropriate or when a good, relevant one comes to mind.

My three texts are :
Wuthering Heights
Plough and the Stars
12 Angry Men

I don't mind them. While WH was a little difficult, I find it useful for the comparative question because it's so vast.

PurpleFistMixer

We were told we didn't need any quotes for the comparative. o.O

anie_bawny

We've done phidelphia here i come,the trumann show and the secret life of bees.Major problem though,,we have only done theme so far and still have two poets left to do with just 4 days of school left.I've come to accept that we arnt going to do any more on the comparative....any advice anyone,because i havnt a clue of cultural context or literary genre,we havnt even touched on it!:eek:

1huge1

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

We were told we didn't need any quotes for the comparative. o.O

Well you don't need too many at all from my understanding, well not like the single text at all anyway

Raichu-17-08-2008

We're doing

• Strictly Ballroom
• The Plough and the Stars
• How Many Miles To Babylon.

I'm not sure about the quotes though, so I always stick one in where I think it's relevant..

Steveo12345youg

Would u say it will end up Theme or issue/ Cultural Context????????

Raichu-17-08-2008

I'm leaning towards more Lit Gen and Theme or Issue rather than Cultural Context..

GERMAN ROCKS

we are doing
the curious incident of the dog in the nightime
strictly ballroom
old school

kirving

Our teached said that were should refer to all three texts over the entire answer. We don't have to write about them all equally, or compare all three for each point we make, but all three are supposed to be in the answer.

Im doing the theme of "a young mans journey to self discovery" using

• Philadelphia, Here I Come
• Strictly Ballroom
• The Curious Incident of the Dong in the Night-time

It's easy enough once you have the basic points.

1huge1

Kevin Irving wrote: »

Our teached said that were should refer to all three texts over the entire answer. We don't have to write about them all equally, or compare all three for each point we make, but all three are supposed to be in the answer.

Im doing the theme of "a young mans journey to self discovery" using

• Philadelphia, Here I Come
• Strictly Ballroom
• The Curious Incident of the Dong in the Night-time

It's easy enough once you have the basic points.

Same theme as mine basically

Mans journey to self discovery

but im doing

Philadelphia Here I come
The Truman Show
Old School

Dman001

Philadelphia, Here I come
The Truman Show
The Curious incident

Is there any websites that give any help and tips on the comparative?

1huge1

www.skoool.ie is always worth a look

Dman001

Yeah, skoool have some good notes.

Parsley

boobookitty wrote: »

- Strictly Ballroom
- Philadelhpia, here I come
- Lies of Silence

I like the ones in blue, I hate Lies of Silence. PHIC and SB are my two best, so if the two part question is nice, I'll do them in (a) and LOS in (b).

I'm in the exact same boat!

InVikingWeTrust

Themes and Issues, you only have to concentrate on 1 theme isn't it? For example you pick love and talk about all the diff types in the 3 texts?

our teacher isn't the best for explaining and im startin to get a litle worried:S

PurpleFistMixer

Yeah, just the one theme.

Also, I've found in experience, doing the text you don't like/don't know well in the (b) part isn't always the best idea. I did that for my mock, talked about The Crucible in the (b) section because I don't know it too well, but in retrospect, writing an entire essay (admittedly shortish one) on your worst text alone doesn't seem like a fantastic idea.

Corruptedmorals

Yep, one theme. You should have 'key moments' from each text that illustrate this theme. Theme is likely, considering it didn't come up last year. I did cultural context, because I loved it. Theme is less time consuming because you have less to compare and contrast each text against. You SHOULD attempt to write equally about each text, if you neglect one and it's really obvious you've done so, you'd more than likely be penalised, unless the marking scheme changes.

You do need quotes for the comparative. Not that many, and generally only in the 'key moments' part of the theme question. It can be handy for cultural context too, but not as much as theme.

alancork

I did five last year... mental teacher. Mental.:eek: Used three in the end tho.
Here it is http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055083426&highlight=english+comparative

Dunno if its any help tho, what with the different texts and all:p

smiles302

We're going * Wuthering Heights
* The Importance of Being Ernest
* Strictly Ballroom..

I love wuthering heights! Don't care for strictly Ballroom..