Leaving cert english paper 1 theme????**

Johnjoeboy

What will the theme for english be this year.im thinking war maybe??

cookiecutter99

maybe gender inequality..this was the topic for deb mock papers

spurious

There's no reason why it should be anything remotely like the mocks - they are set by businesses, not the SEC.
The setters and drafters for the SEC are not allowed work for 'mock' businesses.

randylonghorn

Really very little point in trying to predict theme for P1 of all things ...

Johnjoeboy

randylonghorn wrote: »

Really very little point in trying to predict theme for P1 of all things ...

Not really because diary entries,talks or what ever aswell as the essays are all based on the over all theme so going into the exam with maybe an essay close enough to the real theme in the end is important.

randylonghorn

Johnjoeboy wrote: »

Not really because diary entries,talks or what ever aswell as the essays are all based on the over all theme so going into the exam with maybe an essay close enough to the real theme in the end is important.

I mean that trying to predict the theme is just wild guessing.

cookiecutter99

spurious wrote: »

There's no reason why it should be anything remotely like the mocks - they are set by businesses, not the SEC.
The setters and drafters for the SEC are not allowed work for 'mock' businesses.

i was just saying this theme because it is a big topic this year and there is actually a point predicting english paper 1 as you can prepare broad essays and points

qweerty

In order to predict, there needs to be a pattern.

2014 Influence
2013 Story-telling
2012 Memory
2011 Mystery
2010 The Future
2009 Decisions
2008 Identity
2007 Change
2006 Pretence
2005 Ordinary lives
2004 Work and play
2003 Journeys
2002 Family
2001 Irishness

I detect no pattern. Therefore, one can only guess.

Anonymagician

I would guess something like Equality or maybe something about being Irish. It's only a bit of fun to guess, would be interesting to see if anyone was right in the end.

Peg14

don't know why but maybe Independence/Freedom
or war/violence
or anything else under the sun
technology doesn't seem to have been a specific theme yet

Peregrine

Looking at qweerty's list, I don't see any pattern either. The theme doesn't seem to be influenced by current events at all(the texts might). Now, it might be influenced by recent events this year but I, too, think it's just wild guessing rather than predicting.