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LC English Comparative 2022

  • 02-12-2020 11:20pm
    #1
    leogave1
    Registered Users Posts: 21 ✭


    Wondering have 5th year English teachers decided on their comparative texts yet? I’m struggling to decide what texts to study this year. ‘Philadelphia, Here I Come’ didn’t go down too well with my 6th years which I was surprised by.


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  • #2
    History Queen
    Registered Users Posts: 3,452 ✭✭✭History Queen


    leogave1 wrote: »
    Wondering have 5th year English teachers decided on their comparative texts yet? I’m struggling to decide what texts to study this year. ‘Philadelphia, Here I Come’ didn’t go down too well with my 6th years which I was surprised by.

    Don't discount it just because one group of students didn't like it. A different cohort and different texts to compare it to coukd make a huge difference. What did they dislike about it? I'm going PHIC and Handmaid's Tale, haven't decided on third text yet.


  • #3
    leogave1
    Registered Users Posts: 21 ✭leogave1


    Thanks so much for your reply. Had initially considered your combination of PHIC and THT but I have a very mixed group this year and I think they would find THT challenging. I haven’t completely discounted PHIC yet. I remembering studying it a few years ago with students and they enjoyed it but after coming back to PHIC this year, it definitely didn’t engage the students in the same way as other texts have done in the past. Thinking of looking at The Lauras and Ladybird and then picking a play as the third text.


  • #4
    Stewie Griffin
    Registered Users Posts: 188 ✭✭Stewie Griffin


    I'm doing Philadelphia, Unforgiven and Star of the Sea. The novel is very long but an excellent read and ticks a lot of boxes. I have a strong Honours class in a rural Community School.


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