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Which two texts do you plan to write on in the Literature Exam?

Persuasion
5 (4%)
Jane Eyre
7 (5.6%)
Heart of Darkness
17 (13.5%)
My Brilliant Career
3 (2.4%)
All the Pretty Horses
4 (3.2%)
The Cat's Table
1 (0.8%)
That Deadman Dance
1 (0.8%)
The Man Who Loved Children
0 (0%)
The Leopard
2 (1.6%)
Agamemnon
10 (7.9%)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
3 (2.4%)
A Doll's House
10 (7.9%)
Rhinoceros
0 (0%)
Antony and Cleopatra
13 (10.3%)
Coriolanus
2 (1.6%)
Pygmalion
6 (4.8%)
Arcadia
0 (0%)
Robert Browning - Selected Poems
9 (7.1%)
Rosemary Dobson - Collected
1 (0.8%)
Seamus Heaney - Opened Ground
12 (9.5%)
Christina Rossetti - Selected Poems
5 (4%)
Wislawa Szymborska - Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems
0 (0%)
Chris Wallace-Crabbe - New and Selected Poems
5 (4%)
Nikolay Gogol - The Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector and Selected Stories
0 (0%)
Cate Kennedy - Dark Roots
9 (7.1%)
Annie Proulx - Close Range: Brokeback Mountain and Other Stories
1 (0.8%)
Julian Barnes - A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
0 (0%)
WEH Stanner - The Dreaming & Other Essays
0 (0%)

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2016 Literature Exam - Text Selection
« on: August 10, 2016, 11:07:02 pm »
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Hey all,

So just out of curiosity, I thought we could start a poll to see what texts people are planning on writing on in the Exam this year.

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Re: 2016 Literature Exam - Text Selection
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2016, 06:56:19 am »
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Heart of Darkness, and Antony and Cleopatra. Loved both of them and the other text my school is covering is Heaney's Open Ground - I can't work with poetry for the life of me, so my choices were pretty easy to make. ::)
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Re: 2016 Literature Exam - Text Selection
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2016, 09:46:03 pm »
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I was initially feeling very reluctant about studying poetry, but I will admit that it's grown on me a bit  ::)

And yes, Heart of Darkness is amazing.
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Re: 2016 Literature Exam - Text Selection
« Reply #3 on: August 11, 2016, 09:55:45 pm »
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And yes, Heart of Darkness is amazing.
Yeah, definitely one of my all time favs.

Pretty good spread of responses too, although I'm a little surprised that Heaney's in the lead. ::)
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Re: 2016 Literature Exam - Text Selection
« Reply #4 on: August 17, 2016, 03:29:19 pm »
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Pretty good spread of responses too, although I'm a little surprised that Heaney's in the lead. ::)

Heaney's wicked as matee. Poetry and plays I feel are a lot easier to deal with visually, and poems are such a huge advantage, especially since Heaney covers pretty much similar topics across his poems, which makes for a good response.

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Re: 2016 Literature Exam - Text Selection
« Reply #5 on: August 19, 2016, 07:57:30 pm »
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It looks like Heart of Darkness will be quite popular in its first year (back) on the text list!
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2016 Literature Exam - Text Selection
« Reply #6 on: September 14, 2016, 11:48:24 pm »
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Heart of Darkness and Agamemnon!
(I think) (I hope) (Ah.)

But apparently some (ie. a former Lit teacher at my school) say it's not recommended to write on Agamemnon, as you may not execute it as well without touching on the full scope of the trilogy? (I'm not fully sure what that means/implies either).
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Re: 2016 Literature Exam - Text Selection
« Reply #7 on: September 15, 2016, 06:13:11 am »
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Heart of Darkness and Agamemnon!
(I think) (I hope) (Ah.)

But apparently some (ie. a former Lit teacher at my school) say it's not recommended to write on Agamemnon, as you may not execute it as well without touching on the full scope of the trilogy? (I'm not fully sure what that means/implies either).
Yeah Agamemnon is the first part of the Oresteia. The next one is the libation bearers, where the gist of it is that Orestes kills Clytemnestra for killing Agamemnon. Last one is the Eumenides ('soothed ones' IIRC?), where Orestes undergoes a democratic trial against the Furies to prove he is innocent/purified/whatever.

They're pretty short plays and available on the internet, you could probably knock them out in a few hours if you really wanted to, otherwise there's always Sparknotes ::)
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