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

joesoup · 24-10-2012 12:43PM #1

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

FudgeBrace · 24-10-2012 01:03PM

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 · 25-10-2012 07:07AM

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

joesoup · 25-10-2012 10:47AM

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

ray2012 · 25-10-2012 03:46PM

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

D3luka · 26-10-2012 11:28AM

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

iLikePiano99 · 26-10-2012 05:23PM

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

TorpidCat · 26-10-2012 05:50PM

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

Jaygee · 27-10-2012 06:15PM

Single text: Macbeth
Comparatives: Casablanca, Sive and Brooklyn

user.name · 27-10-2012 08:01PM

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

smurphy11 · 27-10-2012 11:29PM

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

JDOC1996 · 28-10-2012 02:47AM

I thought that everyone had to do Macbeth?

Sunny!! · 28-10-2012 11:02AM

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 · 28-10-2012 11:27AM

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

ray2012 · 28-10-2012 12:19PM

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 · 28-10-2012 02:04PM

Macbeth is my single text

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

QueenOfLeon · 28-10-2012 03:22PM

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. · 28-10-2012 03:26PM

Copper_pipe wrote: »

Macbeth is my single text

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

Same as mine.

chloe04 · 28-10-2012 11:59PM

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 · 30-10-2012 03:45PM

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

David1994 · 30-10-2012 08:19PM

bluejaymraz wrote: »

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

High five! Do those exact ones :L

rugrats · 30-10-2012 09:50PM

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 · 30-10-2012 11:18PM

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!! · 31-10-2012 12:14AM

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 · 31-10-2012 12:52AM

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 · 31-10-2012 09:24AM

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 · 31-10-2012 04:39PM

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 · 31-10-2012 08:14PM

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

)

Comparative: The Book Thief, Casablanca, Sive.

iLikePiano99 · 31-10-2012 10:03PM

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 · 31-10-2012 11:28PM

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

I feel like the odd one out now!

CatEyed92 · 01-11-2012 01:01PM

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!

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

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