!! English HL 2015 - ALL things HL English, predictions, discussion etc.

randylonghorn

Aye, there's no magic number.

1) Make good / relevant points which answer the question asked.

2) Back up / illustrate your points with relevant quotes.

xLisaBx

LeeLee97 wrote: »

Congrats! Going for the A1 myself, got 85% in the mocks! You don't happen to have that Yeats essay you got full marks on do you?

Thank you! Oh you'll get it no bother then, I got a B3 in my English mocks last year haha and no sorry, I don't have the essay because I made it up on the day and it wasnt prepared from notes or anything beforehand. None of my work was. Sorry

LeeLee97

xLisaBx wrote: »

Thank you! Oh you'll get it no bother then, I got a B3 in my English mocks last year haha and no sorry, I don't have the essay because I made it up on the day and it wasnt prepared from notes or anything beforehand. None of my work was. Sorry

Kudos to you for being able to develop your own responses and formulate your own answers. Not many can.

xLisaBx

LeeLee97 wrote: »

Kudos to you for being able to develop your own responses and formulate your own answers. Not many can.

I just felt that true personal responses came from within , and that this would make them unique and stand out. I kinda thought it was the done thing to make it up as you go along as well haha :rolleyes:

DarraghF197

What's everyone's plans for the composition? It's my worst part of the paper and I find it difficult to make up a story on the spot, and wouldn't be able to think of enough points to write about for anything else. I'm wondering whether I should write maybe an essay or two now and then just use the same storyline in the real thing. Is anyone else doing this?

Great Disapointments

Does anyone think Donne will come up?

LeeLee97

DarraghF197 wrote: »

What's everyone's plans for the composition? It's my worst part of the paper and I find it difficult to make up a story on the spot, and wouldn't be able to think of enough points to write about for anything else. I'm wondering whether I should write maybe an essay or two now and then just use the same storyline in the real thing. Is anyone else doing this?

Unless you're really good at the short story, don't go for it. The Personal Essay is easier to get marks in, because it doesn't need a narrative structure, characterisation, atmosphere etc. and is more like your thoughts flowing onto the page.

DarraghF197

LeeLee97 wrote: »

Unless you're really good at the short story, don't go for it. The Personal Essay is easier to get marks in, because it doesn't need a narrative structure, characterisation, atmosphere etc. and is more like your thoughts flowing onto the page.

Thanks for the advice, but the most I've done on personal writing is about two pages and I'm not one to be able to write emotionally on a page! I find that I'm good at creating atmosphere and adding character traits, just my general storylines tends to be weak.

If I get an argument on global warming, I'll do that. I can talk all day about global warming!

lawlessaine

The poets I've studied are:
ENC
Montague
Frost
Donne
Hardy

This list comes from my English teacher last year who is
pretty much a God when it comes to English predictions

ShaunDaSheep

Ok, i am really scared for english next week. I am fine for paper 1 as I am good on the composition etc... but I am really unprepared for Paper 2. I just want to know if people think I amtaking a risk by only leanring the following:

Poets:

John Donne
Emily Dickinson
Eiléan ní Chuilleanáin
Yeats

Comparative:
Just Theme

Othello:
All the women and their role in society
desdemona and emilia individually
Othello
Iago
and Othello and Iago together

I know im cutting out a lot but I only need a C1. I just want to know if i should really consider studying anything else ?

OMGeary

ShaunDaSheep wrote: »

Comparative:
Just Theme

One comparative mode is kinda risky

LeeLee97

OMGeary wrote: »

One comparative mode is kinda risky

Unless its literary genre

Peg14

ShaunDaSheep wrote: »

Ok, i am really scared for english next week. I am fine for paper 1 as I am good on the composition etc... but I am really unprepared for Paper 2. I just want to know if people think I amtaking a risk by only leanring the following:

Poets:

John Donne
Emily Dickinson
Eiléan ní Chuilleanáin
Yeats

Comparative:
Just Theme

Othello:
All the women and their role in society
desdemona and emilia individually
Othello
Iago
and Othello and Iago together

I know im cutting out a lot but I only need a C1. I just want to know if i should really consider studying anything else ?

you're not really cutting out a lot! you have pretty much everything covered. Apart from the comparative. You probably will be fine but do another V and VP, I say.

Almen11

Ok so I'm planning a Dickinson essay and was wondering, can you use the same poem twice to back up two different points? Eg. I have a paragraph on the theme of nature that I used to talk about I tasted a liquor never brewed, if I speak about imagery can I mention that poem again in that paragraph just briefly? Like 3 or 4 lines?

IrishLoriii

Hi all,
Id really appreciate someones help with paper 1 the composing for the SHORT STORY.
For the mocks, I wrote what I thought was a personal essay under the personal essay title
but my teacher said that I wouldn't have scored a lot higher if I titled it as a short story
under one of the other titles. He told me to learn it off for June. I have just spent the
last hour going through it and changing some of the language in it etc I was just wondering
if im being too risky going it with just a learned off short story or should I write out a few??
Also, Is it ok for a short story to not have a definite ending? Like at the start my persons waiting
on results then she gets them then she deals with them but I never say what the results are of
or anything but does my story need to have a solid conclusion? Thanks so much for your help

ShaunDaSheep

IrishLoriii wrote: »

Hi all,
I was just wondering
if im being too risky going it with just a learned off short story or should I write out a few??
Also, Is it ok for a short story to not have a definite ending? Like at the start my persons waiting
on results then she gets them then she deals with them but I never say what the results are of
or anything but does my story need to have a solid conclusion? Thanks so much for your help

For your own safety I not bank on just 1 essay. You could spend hours learning this essay to perfection and it may be impossible to fit the story into the theme of the paper e.g last years short stories were a ghost story and a science fiction story. Also to answer your second question , it is always best to leave short stories on a cliff hanger e.g make the examiner want more. Short stories with a happy ever after or doom at the end are predictable and boring for examiners.

Hope this is of so help and good luck

DesuDesuChan

Oh my God, this username.
I'm quite nervous for english, although it's one of my stronger subjects...
I really hope Frost or even Yeats comes up (though Yeats probably won't).
Can't deal with Eileen and her vomitting child, and my teacher didn't give us many notes on Montague.

Casio123

For a short story I would reccommend to follow these five steps in order !
1. Atmospheric Setting
2. Character development (2-3 characters at the most)
3. Build up of tension & suspense
4. Climax
5. Resolution

There a key aspect in any short story!

LeeLee97

DesuDesuChan wrote: »

Oh my God, this username.
I'm quite nervous for english, although it's one of my stronger subjects...
I really hope Frost or even Yeats comes up (though Yeats probably won't).
Can't deal with Eileen and her vomitting child, and my teacher didn't give us many notes on Montague.

You and me both bud. Frost is the only one that comes close to the might of Yeats. If neither of those two come up I'm f****d. Really don't want to have to answer on dickinson/hardy.

DesuDesuChan

And we didn't even do Dickinson/Hardy.
lololololololol /dies

LeeLee97

DesuDesuChan wrote: »

And we didn't even do Dickinson/Hardy.
lololololololol /dies

What would you do if Yeats and Frosty came up?

9de5q7tsr8u2im

Cant express how ****ed and **** i am at poetry, can someone help i got 20 out of 50 in pres with no work i need a damn B , literally just going to use key notes

DesuDesuChan

LeeLee97 wrote: »

What would you do if Yeats and Frosty came up?

I'd be happy! Well, not happy. Just relieved. Who feels happy during exams?
I'd probably end up with Frost.

DarraghF197

DesuDesuChan wrote: »

I'd be happy! Well, not happy. Just relieved. Who feels happy during exams?
I'd probably end up with Frost.

Only people who balance their accounts in Accounting knows how it feels to be happy in an exam!

I'll be happy if I get a choice of Hardy or Plath; jealousy or gender in Othello; and both a theme and general vision question to come up

DesuDesuChan

DarraghF197 wrote: »

Only people who balance their accounts in Accounting knows how it feels to be happy in an exam!

I'll be happy if I get a choice of Hardy or Plath; jealousy or gender in Othello; and both a theme and general vision question to come up

Hahah. Yeah, I'd like a jealousy question on Othello. Dreading the comparative tbh.

Patsy6546

Anyone have a link to a good sample essay for literary genre? For I'm not scared, Juno and the paycock and how many miles

The_N4sir

Patsy6546 wrote: »

Anyone have a link to a good sample essay for literary genre? For I'm not scared, Juno and the paycock and how many miles

There is a sample essay for these texts in Key Notes if you have it

ClaireF__

what are ye planning to study for Othello?

LeeLee97

DarraghF197 wrote: »

Only people who balance their accounts in Accounting knows how it feels to be happy in an exam!

I'll be happy if I get a choice of Hardy or Plath; jealousy or gender in Othello; and both a theme and general vision question to come up

Good luck getting a Plath question!

ShaunDaSheep

is there a strong bet on the women to come up for othello ? would love a question on them to be honest