Leaving Cert 2012-13 *OFF-TOPIC* (hideaway) thread

Parawhore.xD

Colm! wrote: »

Had to rescue this from a few pages back. How y'all doin?

I'd be doing a lot better if it was this time tomorrow... I NEED midterm right now!!

MegGustaa

Glee_GG wrote: »

damm them for getting to do Heaney and Yeats for poetry:(

I can't envy them because they have no Adrienne Rich.

EoinOCall

Once Derek Mahon comes up for us next year I'm sorted.. by far easiest poet on the course.

yournerd

Midterm BABII

Anyone know the process of Law in Trinity?

FunTimess

Any fifth years going to Bru na Pairce in summer for the maths/irish course?

MegGustaa

FunTimess wrote: »

Any fifth years going to Bru na Pairce in summer for the maths/irish course?

Yeah I'm going for Irish in August

CookieMonster.x

FunTimess wrote: »

Any fifth years going to Bru na Pairce in summer for the maths/irish course?

Yup Irish in June

Glee_GG

FunTimess wrote: »

Any fifth years going to Bru na Pairce in summer for the maths/irish course?

Probably end up doing the Irish course since it's not too far from where I live. My brother went a few years ago though, said its like a Nazi regime inside there by some of them :L

yournerd

where bru na pairce?

ScummyMan

Bump!

God dammit I hate poetry. Really really really hate poetry :mad:

Were doing Elizabeth Bishop atm, and I feel like killing myself trying to understand it, no exageration.

LostBoy101

Man.UnitedLad wrote: »

Bump!

God dammit I hate poetry. Really really really hate poetry :mad:

Were doing Elizabeth Bishop atm, and I feel like killing myself trying to understand it, no exageration.

I feel your pain I'm doing her myself.

buyer95

LostBoy101 wrote: »

I feel your pain I'm doing her myself.

I'm not a fan of poetry either, but Bishop really takes the cake. Our 5th year class did her poetry back in September... I just couldnt seem to enjoy any of them, were doing Hopkins at the moment and although he is difficult, I enjoy reading his poetry.

On a side note what novel are ye all studying for ye're comparative text? We just finished 1984 before we started Hopkins, and to be honest I really enjoyed it. Bits of it were tedious, i.e Goldstein's book, but overall I did enjoy it, it's certainly thought provoking

LostBoy101

buyer95 wrote: »

I'm not a fan of poetry either, but Bishop really takes the cake. Our 5th year class did her poetry back in September... I just couldnt seem to enjoy any of them, were doing Hopkins at the moment and although he is difficult, I enjoy reading his poetry.

On a side note what novel are ye all studying for ye're comparative text? We just finished 1984 before we started Hopkins, and to be honest I really enjoyed it. Bits of it were tedious, i.e Goldstein's book, but overall I did enjoy it, it's certainly thought provoking

For my comparative course we did Old man and the Sea and Great Gatsby as two texts and Casablanca as a film.

MGMTea

Man.UnitedLad wrote: »

Bump!

God dammit I hate poetry. Really really really hate poetry :mad:

Were doing Elizabeth Bishop atm, and I feel like killing myself trying to understand it, no exageration.

I know that feel bro doing Adrienne Rich at the moment, not too hard tbh but just.so.boring.

LostBoy101

The thing that popped to my head on Bishop is that the only person that can understand the poems is the poet herself :P

Glee_GG

Man.UnitedLad wrote: »

Bump!

God dammit I hate poetry. Really really really hate poetry :mad:

Were doing Elizabeth Bishop atm, and I feel like killing myself trying to understand it, no exageration.

Ugh hate poetry :mad: Done Hopkins and Wordsworth and they're the most boring people that ever walked the planet :L Just started Derek Mahon though, he doesn't seem too bad!

MWick94

How much of the English course have you all done so far?

We've done Bishop, Rich and Mahon in poetry, finished Macbeth and we're on the second of our three comparative texts, which are Sive, I'm Not Scared (film) and Wuthering Heights.

LostBoy101

MWick94 wrote: »

How much of the English course have you all done so far?

We've done Bishop, Rich and Mahon in poetry, finished Macbeth and we're on the second of our three comparative texts, which are Sive, I'm Not Scared (film) and Wuthering Heights.

We've done The Great Gatsby, Old Man and the Sea and Casablanca (film) for our three comparative texts. In poetry we've done Wordsworth, Mahon, and doing Bishop at the moment.

Colm!

People really aren't exaggerating about how awful Elizabeth Bishop is. She's just that awful

suitcasepink

Ahh we're doing her now too.. Weird..
Ive never seen a fish described with so many words before

kevin12345

I like her So far we've done Macbeth, Mahon, Plath and Bishop, Casablanca and all the essays for it, loads of work on paper 1 and we've started our 2nd comparative 'The Book Thief'.

smurphy11

so far we`ve done wuthering heights, macbeth, plath and mahon

bluejay14

I didn't think Bishop was too bad. At least not as bad as Hopkins. I'd rather a description of a petrol station over a depressed priest anyday.

So far we've got through Macbeth, Hopkins, Bishop and about 3 quarters of Casablanca.

Can't believe its practically March already, only about 12 weeks left then into the dreaded 6th year!

MegGustaa

MWick94 wrote: »

How much of the English course have you all done so far?

We've done Bishop, Rich and Mahon in poetry, finished Macbeth and we're on the second of our three comparative texts, which are Sive, I'm Not Scared (film) and Wuthering Heights.

Two poets - Rich and Plath - Macbeth (Single Text), How Many Miles to Babylon, The Constant Gardener and half-way through Wuthering Heights at the moment. Plus a fair few Comprehension A & Bs done, as well as monthly 100 mark Composition questions. I think we might get a third poet done this year too.

Glee_GG

MWick94 wrote: »

How much of the English course have you all done so far?

We've done Bishop, Rich and Mahon in poetry, finished Macbeth and we're on the second of our three comparative texts, which are Sive, I'm Not Scared (film) and Wuthering Heights.

Done Wordsworth, Hopkins and currently doing Mahon. Started on Essay Q's. We've done some of the section B and comprehensions. Done Macbeth. Watched I'm Not Scared and finished Sive and we've to do the Book Thief next year I think.

UnholyGregor

just seen this thread pop up, i remember last year the lv cert seemed so immaterial, I remember walking past the 6th years doing their mocks without any emotion or thought, thinking it will never happen to me. Now its nearly ****ing summer and the lv cert is in like 16 weeks.....
so yeah, do the work now and keep your goal in sight, cos ye'l be in my position in jst 50 odd weeks.... i think when you put things in weeks, it seems alot closer...

it sounds gay but remember that your only purpose in school is to get a good lv cert. Everyone else in your year is competing with you for points. I consider everyone an enemy for the next 4 months.... give it a shot, il'l work wonders for your grades

ScummyMan

Jaysus have ye all done that much in English already?!

We've just finished Bishop, finished Macbeth and done a good bit of work on P1.

I thought were going fairly slow, then again my teacher is a bit of a retard tbh :rolleyes:

TheStook

MegGustaa wrote: »

Two poets - Rich and Plath - Macbeth (Single Text), How Many Miles to Babylon, The Constant Gardener and half-way through Wuthering Heights at the moment. Plus a fair few Comprehension A & Bs done, as well as monthly 100 mark Composition questions. I think we might get a third poet done this year too.

Are you serious? I didnt realize how little weve done...Ritch and Hopkins, Macbeth and we've just started How Many Miles to Babylon..

iLikePiano99

We have done some of Wordsworth - but no questions or anything - just reading through the poems, some Paper 1 essays and comprehensions, Macbeth, watched our film and we just finished reading Purple Hibiscus.

MGMTea

Man.UnitedLad wrote: »

Jaysus have ye all done that much in English already?!

We've just finished Bishop, finished Macbeth and done a good bit of work on P1.

I thought were going fairly slow, then again my teacher is a bit of a retard tbh :rolleyes:

same ! we were on Macbeth for a good while, only into Poetry now