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Looking For Alaska

  • 24-03-2010 11:06pm
    #1
    rogers4815
    Registered Users Posts: 86 ✭✭


    Maybe it's just me, but I really believe Looking For Alaska by John Green should be included on the English course! it's definitely a book I would've loved to have studied, especially when compared with the dreadful books we read in my own class for the exam...

    Is there anyway of suggesting books for the course for future years? Or are the books the same every year?


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  • #2
    pathway33
    Registered Users Posts: 2,229 ✭✭✭pathway33


    There's about 30 texts to choose from every year. Some are repeated year on year. Some disappear for a few years and reappear. You can see the full list of texts on www.education.ie under 'curriculum syllabus and teaching guides'. You can compare 2010 2011 and 2012 to see a pattern

    You have an excellent chance of getting the book on the junior cert course because they can choose any novel. Is it suitable as a junior cert text?


  • #3
    rogers4815
    Registered Users Posts: 86 ✭✭rogers4815


    Ah right! Whether it's suitable for Junior cycle or not really depends on the person... There was some trouble over in the US over a particular scene in the book that some parents of a particular school deemed to be of a pornographic nature, but I think the book was fought for and was kept in the class in question...


  • #4
    PeterDuggan
    Registered Users Posts: 863 ✭✭✭PeterDuggan


    Did anyone manage to record episode 3? The goddamn BBC changed the time and started it 30 minutes early. :-)


  • #5
    Postgrad10
    Registered Users Posts: 2,792 ✭✭✭Postgrad10


    It’s on rte player still.


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