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LC English 6A 2011

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LATEST: Someone was asking if you could refer to more than three texts in the Comparative - have sought advice on this and the answer is NO.

Friday 3rd June is the last day of school officially. I'll be available in school until 12.20 if anyone needs extra help. After that send an email and we'll work something out, possibly for Tues 7th, when the school will be open.

NEW: For those 6A students taking an Ordinary level paper, a reminder of what you were told in class - for the poetry question you need to study an extra 5 poems - here are the titles. Click on the title to get the notes on that poem.

By Adrienne Rich: Aunt Jennifer's Tigers; Uncle Speaks in the Drawing Room; Trying to Talk With a Man

By Gerard Manley Hopkins: Spring; Inversnaid

Also: In the Comparative course the three modes at Ordinary Level are: Social Setting (much the same as Cultural Context), Relationships (which we've done), and Theme (Choose the theme of relationships, or family relationships, or romantic relationships etc)

12 Day Revision Plan

More Hamlet on RTE Radio 1:
NEW: Drama on One: Listening to Hamlet Transmission Date: Sunday 29 May 2011 20.02 - 21.00 Drama on One provides Leaving Certificate students with an entertaining and useful guide to Hamlet As the Leaving Certificate approaches, Drama On One presents its audio pocket guide to Shakespeare's Hamlet. Sean Rocks presents the programme with contributions from Niall McMonagle, Richie Ball and Dorothea Finan.

NEW: You can now listen back to this "Listening to Hamlet" here: http://www.rte.ie/radio1/drama/

For RTE Radio 1's "Hamlet in Howth" podcasts click here.
(workshops on the play secondary school students - listen, or download by right clicking on "save target as")

Click here for Poetry Revision Worksheet

Suggested Timing in Exam:

Paper 1 - 20 mins reading, 30 mins QA, 30 mins QB, 80 Mins essay, 10 mins re-read and check. Make sure you do the A and B question from different texts - i.e. - don't do an A and a B on the same text.
Might be a good idea to first choose a B question that suits you, then do an A question from another text.

Paper 2 - Roughly one hour on Hamlet, one hour Comparative, one hour Poetry. This still leaves 20 mins for reading, finishing, re-reading, checking. Because Comparative has several aspects (e.g. two or three texts) these may take a bit longer than Hamlet, so you might find yourself a bit under the hour for Hamlet and a bit over the hour for Comparative and Poetry.

Downloads

Single Text (Hamlet)

Hamlet Text; Revenge Theme; Political Theme; Appearance and Reality Theme; Madness Theme; Hamlet as a Tragedy;
Hamlet Imagery; Hamlet Questions;

Poetry:

Past Poetry Questions (relevant to poets studied for this year)

Kavanagh in General
Inniskeen Road: July Evening; Shancoduff; Advent; A Christmas Childhood; Canal Bank Walk;
Lines Written on a Seat on the Grand Canal

Frost in General
Out, Out; Mending Wall; The Road Not Taken; The Tuft of Flowers; After Apple Picking; Acquainted With the Night

Boland in General
Child of Our Time; This Moment; Love, The Pomegranate; Shadow Doll; Famine Road

Dickinson in General
I Felt a Funeral in My Brain; I heard a Fly Buzz When I Died; Hope is the Thing With Feathers; A Bird Came Down the Walk
The Soul Has Bandaged Moments; A Narrow Fellow in the Grass

Yeats in General
The Wild Swans at Coole; An Irish Airman Forsees His Death; Sailing to Byzantium; September 1913; Easter 1916; Politics

Wordsworth in General
She Dwelt Among Untrodden Ways/A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal; Upon Westminster Bridge; It Is a Beauteous Evening;
Prelude: Skating; Lines Composed a Few MIles Above Tintern Abbey;

Comparative: