LC English - What single/comparative texts are you doing?

joesoup

Just wondering what single texts and comparative texts people are doing for their English exam?

FudgeBrace

joesoup wrote: »

Just wondering what single texts and comparative texts people are doing for their English exam?

For the single text I'm doing MacBeth.
For the comparative I'm doing How many miles to Babylon , Casablanca , and the old man an the sea. Yourself.??

ryanch09

Single text: Macbeth
Comparative: Tess of the D'Urbervilles, How I Live Now and The Constant Gardener

joesoup

We're doing Macbeth for single text, and How Many Miles to Babylon, Casablanca and 1984 for comparative

ray2012

Single test : Macbeth
Comparative : Sive, How Many Miles to Babylon and the film I'm Not Scared.

D3luka

single text: machbeth
comparative : sive, how many miles to babylon, children of men

iLikePiano99

Comparative: How many miles to Babylon?, Purple Hibiscus and I'm Not Scared.
Single Text: Macbeth

TorpidCat

Single: Macbeth
Comparative: How Many Miles to Babylon, All My Sons and Casablanca

Jaygee

Single text: Macbeth
Comparatives: Casablanca, Sive and Brooklyn

user.name

single: The Great Gatsby
comparatives: Sive, Emma and the Winters Tale

smurphy11

Single text: Pride and prejudice
Comparatives: Macbeth, I`m not scared and Brooklyn

JDOC1996

I thought that everyone had to do Macbeth?

Sunny!!

JDOC1996 wrote: »

I thought that everyone had to do Macbeth?

you can do winters tale instead if you want and if your doing pass level you do not have to do macbeth

jamo2oo9

Macbeth, Wuthering Heights and Lost in Translations. I can't remember the name of the film we watched.

ray2012

JDOC1996 wrote: »

I thought that everyone had to do Macbeth?

No, you have a choice of a few plays to do, it doesn't have to be Macbeth. Majority of schools do Macbeth though!

Copper_pipe

Macbeth is my single text

Translations
Wuthering heights
I'm not scared are my comparative texts

QueenOfLeon

JDOC1996 wrote: »

I thought that everyone had to do Macbeth?

For Higher Level you have to do a Shakespearean play somewhere, either in the Single text or as part of the Comparative. For Ordinary level its given as an option but not compulsory.

Legion.

Copper_pipe wrote: »

Macbeth is my single text

Translations
Wuthering heights
I'm not scared are my comparative texts

Same as mine.

chloe04

would have loved to do george orwell 1984! single text macbeth and comparative the great gatsby,tess of the durbervilles and mister pip..all a snore

bluejay14

Single text: Macbeth
Comparative: Casablanca, How Many Miles to Babylon, Sive

David1994

bluejaymraz wrote: »

Single text: Macbeth
Comparative: Casablanca, How Many Miles to Babylon, Sive

High five! Do those exact ones :L

rugrats

jamo2oo9 wrote: »

Macbeth, Wuthering Heights and Lost in Translations. I can't remember the name of the film we watched.

For fear that you wrote in your examination that you studied "Lost in Translations", I feel compelled to tell you that it's called "Translations".

CatEyed92

Casablanca, How Many Miles to Babylon and Macbeth

How Many Miles to Babylon is the most boring book I have ever read!
Yet everyone seems to love it?
I did third level English, read old english poetry and it was not as boring as this book! Still wading through it !! Anyone out there hating HMMTB too or am I totally missing the hype?

Sunny!!

CatEyed92 wrote: »

Casablanca, How Many Miles to Babylon and Macbeth

How Many Miles to Babylon is the most boring book I have ever read!
Yet everyone seems to love it?
I did third level English, read old english poetry and it was not as boring as this book! Still wading through it !! Anyone out there hating HMMTB too or am I totally missing the hype?

im doing the same texts, and i have to admit its soooo boring! thank god the book is short!

CatEyed92

Sunny!! wrote: »

im doing the same texts, and i have to admit its soooo boring! thank god the book is short!

Not short enough! It's taking ages for me to get through it! And there's alot of spitting going on..... yuck

ray2012

CatEyed92 wrote: »

Casablanca, How Many Miles to Babylon and Macbeth

How Many Miles to Babylon is the most boring book I have ever read!
Yet everyone seems to love it?
I did third level English, read old english poetry and it was not as boring as this book! Still wading through it !! Anyone out there hating HMMTB too or am I totally missing the hype?

i'm doing HMMTB also, it's the most boring book I've ever read. Nothing really dramatic even happens, just in the last 3 pages maybe but that's it. Was glad to get it finished !

curly135

Single text: Macbeth
Comparative: Purple Hibiscus, Reluctant Fundamentalist, Casablanca

Had my heart set on doing 1984, read it before and really liked it. English teacher didn't choose to do it, despite the fact that I told her I had a fairly good understanding of it, and that she knew there was a few of us who had a genuine interest in doing it, as opposed to the majority of the class who couldn't care less about what she chose.

Probably the reason why I really don't like English now

kevin12345

Single text: Macbeth (Did it for Junior Cert too - yay )

Comparative: The Book Thief, Casablanca, Sive.

iLikePiano99

Finally! People who have the same feelings about HMMTB as me. It is the most boring book I have ever had to read. Ask me now, and I honestly could not tell you who Bennett is, or Glendinning. I was so bored reading it that I paid attention to nothing and then when I was revising it to do a question, I read the summaries online and realised just how much I had zoned out during it!

moriz

Single: Macbeth
Comparative: My Sister's Keeper + I'm Not Scared + Circle of Friends

I feel like the odd one out now!

CatEyed92

I have a big dliemma lads!

Found out there another teacher in the college is doing my old single text this year - Wuthering Heights.

They are also doing Casablanca, HMMTB and Macbeth for comparative.

I have already read HMMTB, Macbeth and WH.

My current teacher is doing Macbeth as a single text and I HATE Shakespeare. In 2011, I studied the Shakespeare text as comparative and certainly was revealed as there was less pressure compared to single text.
I also have another book yet to read for my current teacher's comparative - The Book Thief.

So what I am asking is - Should I do my own thing?

HELP! Hope this makes sense!

decisions

Single - Macbeth
Comp: Wuthering Heights, Casablanca, Gatsby

Colm!

Single - Macbeth. I like it. It's pretty straightforward, easy to write about and I did actually enjoy watching it when we went to see it.

Comparative:

Wuthering Heights - despise it. dreadful book, in my own opinion.
Casablanca - Really enjoyed this one. Great film. I'd recommend watching it.
Sive - starting this soon.

Vito Corleone

Anyone else unfortunate enough to be doing "Circle of Friends" as one of their comparative?

#boring

Conor94

I'm doing:

Single Text:

• Macbeth

Comparative Texts:

• HMMTB
• The Lonesome West
• I'm Not Scared

It looks like I'm the only one doing 'The Lonesome West' here :S

YoursSincerely

Single text - Macbeth
Comparative - The Great Gatsby, Casablanca, and Sive

HugsiePie

Single: Macbeth
Comparative: Wuthering Heights, Translations and I'm Not Scared

Sunny!!

Single - macbeth

Comparitive - casablanca, how many miles to babylon?, the book thief(way too long for a comparitive:()

moriz

Vito Corleone wrote: »

Anyone else unfortunate enough to be doing "Circle of Friends" as one of their comparative?

#boring

Yeah me! Not as the main part though, our teacher said we only have to refer to it in a couple of sentences. Not so boring for me

Lena137

Single text: Macbeth
Comparative: I'm Not Scared, HMMTB and The Road
I hate all of them. I love Hamlet compared to Macbeth. There were a few of the comparatives options that I've read before and loved like Emma, Wuthering Heights and My Sisters Keeper( off the top of my head). I wish we could have done at least one of them. I love reading but it was so tedious trying to read HMMTB.

11Charlie11

HugsiePie wrote: »

Single: Macbeth
Comparative: Wuthering Heights, Translations and I'm Not Scared

I'm doing the same as you

ray2012

I'm Not Scared is such a good film, really liked it. What did other people doing it for their comparative think ?:D

11Charlie11

ray2012 wrote: »

I'm Not Scared is such a good film, really liked it. What did other people doing it for their comparative think ?:D

I must say I really enjoyed that film as well but as for the other 2 ..

iLikePiano99

ray2012 wrote: »

I'm Not Scared is such a good film, really liked it. What did other people doing it for their comparative think ?:D

I loved it! I thought it was a great film

HugsiePie

11Charlie11 wrote: »

I must say I really enjoyed that film as well but as for the other 2 ..

Same here, anyone know if there is a good revision book for the comparative (bar key notes):pac:

buyer95

Lena137 wrote: »

Single text: Macbeth
Comparative: I'm Not Scared, HMMTB and The Road
I hate all of them. I love Hamlet compared to Macbeth. There were a few of the comparatives options that I've read before and loved like Emma, Wuthering Heights and My Sisters Keeper( off the top of my head). I wish we could have done at least one of them. I love reading but it was so tedious trying to read HMMTB.

Can't believe you didn't like I'm not scared! Do you just not like thrillers in general, or was it the subtitles that put you off?

Lena137

Looking back I'm Not Scared was okay, thrown in with the other two I probably didn't like it as much as I could have. I love watching movies with subtitles and I liked the Italian.

11Charlie11

HugsiePie wrote: »

Same here, anyone know if there is a good revision book for the comparative (bar key notes):pac:

Key notes I'd the only one I can think of and I think it's brilliant

Sunny!!

HugsiePie wrote: »

Same here, anyone know if there is a good revision book for the comparative (bar key notes):pac:

There's a book on educate.ie which has the majority of the texts it's great!

HugsiePie

Sunny!! wrote: »

There's a book on educate.ie which has the majority of the texts it's great!

Yeah I was thinking about getting that, I love key notes for poetry, but for everything else it just ain't cutting it for me, my teacher gives most of her notes from that book, but I have it anyways.I really hate Comparative, do you know if that book covers I'm Not Scared, Translations and Wuthering Heights.

shawnanana

Single text = Macbeth
Comparatives = Emma, Home Before Night and Casablanca

Emma has to be the most boring book EVER!