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Title: Are there any Christmas Carole students on ATAR notes?
Post by: Dayman on February 17, 2013, 01:24:48 pm
I was just wondering if there are any students studying the book and what their thoughts are of it?

We could even start a discussion that could benefit everyone. However I think it's unlikely.  :)
Title: Re: Are there any Christmas Carole students on ATAR notes?
Post by: Evan.T on February 18, 2013, 05:28:17 pm
I would be one of them :)
I think that the book is enjoyable and there is a lot to write about. I like the historical context of the book as well as the deeper meanings. Dickens expression is also rather enjoyable.
Title: Re: Are there any Christmas Carole students on ATAR notes?
Post by: Dayman on February 18, 2013, 06:01:32 pm
Very Good book however the language is hard to grasp since its written around mid 1800's.
Title: Re: Are there any Christmas Carole students on ATAR notes?
Post by: Evan.T on February 18, 2013, 06:33:51 pm
It takes a bit to get used to. What I have done is started a glossary of sorts. In the back of my folder I have some paper, and I write down a word and the definition that I don't understand. I then later on put this in a sentence as revision, so that hopefully I understand it better and maybe if it's relevant use it in essays.
Title: Re: Are there any Christmas Carole students on ATAR notes?
Post by: Dayman on February 18, 2013, 07:02:20 pm
Ahh very clever aha! Yea I got used to it after the second read(while doing review qs for school) have you started any essay topics? I don't think I'm ready I need to do find some quotes and do a character analysis.
Title: Re: Are there any Christmas Carole students on ATAR notes?
Post by: Wazzup on February 18, 2013, 08:40:16 pm
Leme know if you need any help with it :P
Title: Re: Are there any Christmas Carole students on ATAR notes?
Post by: Art Vandelay on February 18, 2013, 09:07:30 pm
I'm available too :D
Title: Re: Are there any Christmas Carole students on ATAR notes?
Post by: Dayman on February 18, 2013, 10:03:54 pm
Cheers everyone! Actually this might be lazy on my behalf and I don't really want to bother anyone. However if you guys can be able to upload some of your notes (as in quotes and whatever that was useful to your studies) that would make me the happiest student in VCE. Otherwise its okay with me :)!
Title: Re: Are there any Christmas Carole students on ATAR notes?
Post by: Evan.T on February 18, 2013, 10:42:46 pm
I will see what I can muster up tomorrow, it's all on paper for now. Just today I went and sourced some topics to do essays on. We have the SAC on it in a fortnight...
Title: Re: Are there any Christmas Carole students on ATAR notes?
Post by: Dayman on February 18, 2013, 10:56:00 pm
Sac in two weeks, hopefull you're going to kill it :) yea and there's a few essay topics on the English board.
Title: Re: Are there any Christmas Carole students on ATAR notes?
Post by: Art Vandelay on February 19, 2013, 01:39:43 am
i have notes that i could scan sometime this week, but the handwriting is terrible, and some of the formatting is really messy :P
Title: Re: Are there any Christmas Carole students on ATAR notes?
Post by: FlorianK on February 19, 2013, 10:19:13 am
Never read the book but I went to watch it as a play recently. Would've loved to study it instead of stupid/boring Cosi
Title: Re: Are there any Christmas Carole students on ATAR notes?
Post by: Dayman on February 19, 2013, 05:02:29 pm
Never read the book but I went to watch it as a play recently. Would've loved to study it instead of stupid/boring Cosi

I liked Christmas Carole had good morals and lots of material to study, cost never read it must be bad though lol.
Title: Re: Are there any Christmas Carole students on ATAR notes?
Post by: Brytz on February 20, 2013, 06:22:33 am
Studying this book now, but struggling to find good quotes, anyone got a list of quotes would be very nice. :)

Very good book by the way.
Title: Re: Are there any Christmas Carole students on ATAR notes?
Post by: FlorianK on February 20, 2013, 07:23:10 am
Studying this book now, but struggling to find good quotes, anyone got a list of quotes would be very nice. :)

Very good book by the way.
You want quotes? "Bah, humbug!"
Title: Re: Are there any Christmas Carole students on ATAR notes?
Post by: Wazzup on February 20, 2013, 09:21:54 am
http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3097440-a-christmas-carol

http://www.litquotes.com/quote_title_resp.php?TName=A%20Christmas%20Carol


depends what your essay is....
Title: Re: Are there any Christmas Carole students on ATAR notes?
Post by: Fez on February 21, 2013, 07:08:59 am
I've been using pkaur's quote summary http://www.atarnotes.com/?p=notes&a=feedback&id=1019. We had to just do our first essay on the topic "What are our initial impressions of Scrooge? ", I might chuck it up after I get a few people to look at it. If anyone has any other topics that they have found were good (or any really) I would love to get a hold of them for practice.

oh, and here's another essay I found on here http://www.atarnotes.com/?p=notes&a=feedback&id=650
Title: Re: Are there any Christmas Carole students on ATAR notes?
Post by: Art Vandelay on February 21, 2013, 07:30:38 am
heres an essay i wrote for this thing last year. prompt is rubbish though. ill try type up the notes in a few weeks or so?
Title: Re: Are there any Christmas Carole students on ATAR notes?
Post by: Dayman on February 21, 2013, 04:29:50 pm
If essay topics is what you want theres load that can be found here just scroll down to find the Christmas Carol ones.

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