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VCE Stuff => VCE English Studies => VCE Subjects + Help => VCE Literature => Topic started by: schmalex on July 28, 2010, 08:42:49 pm
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I'm still not sure, so I'm studying three texts pretty intensively to work out which I like best. I still have a fourth in the back of my mind. It's so hard to decide! How early do you think you should know exactly which texts you are going to write on?
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I have no choice; My school is only doing 2 exam texts: Hamlet and Frankenstein.
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Keats' poetry and A Passage to India.
I don't want to do the short stories (by Chekhov) nor the play (No Sugar-- our australian text), so have decided to stick with the two above. They are both filled with imagery, so would be easy to write about.
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I have no choice; My school is only doing 2 exam texts: Hamlet and Frankenstein.
This, except it's Hamlet and Emma.
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im thinking a passage to india and hedda gabler......but yeah still not sure
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Emma and Gwen Harwoodddd!!!
...I think
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Beowulf and D.H. Lawrence's short stories, most likely. :)
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Hotel Sorrento and Frankenstein. Had a choice of two others as well.
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Austen is an under-appreciated author at the VCE level holding genre constant. Shelley, Shakespeare, Bryon and Tennyson have been over-emphasized and therefore are more competitively assessed against uniform criteria. Poetry can be extraordinarily multi-faceted in their analysis as well as exposition. Wherever possible and provided that the offer exists, I tend to encourage students to select Edgar Ellen Poe as their weapon of choice.
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Stuffed because the one I'm considering, Stasiland, has been under the radar ever since we finished it in Unit 3. I'm quite unprepared unlike you guys and I'm only really considering Emma. Daren't pick Hamlet because the competition seems too tough and Larkin Poetry is just... yea.
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chekhov short stories and not sure about my second one
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hamlet and either regeneration or keat's poems
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hamlet and this boy's life.
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this boys life and atonement
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should've made a poll.
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Emma and Hamlet, This Boy's Life as a back up text
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Do you guys think there's any particular form of text (e.g. novel, poetry, play) that is easier to study for/score high on than others?
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^ I've just heard that poetry is way more subjective and thus a bit of a risk.
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Poetry is a risk. We've had it drilled into us a billion times, though our teacher is biased because he's never yet had a kid who wrote on poetry who got an A plus for the exam (even though these same kids have gotten amazing English scores so it's not due to an inability to write), and yet he's had many kids who wrote on the novels, plays, etc and who got high 40's--50. He believes it's because poetry is more subjective than the other texts...
That said, I want to write on poetry anyways just cause I'm a poetry buff, and so I've picked Harwood and Hedda Gabler.
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You get marked on how well you present a plausible interpretation of the text. As long as you're interpretation of the poem is logical and you can support you're opinion, then i wouldn't say it is risky at all.
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You get marked on how well you present a plausible interpretation of the text. As long as you're interpretation of the poem is logical and you can support you're opinion, then i wouldn't say it is risky at all.
From what I've seen of the examiner's report and other past student's testimony, vcaa seem to already have their own kind of idea and seldom like other varying interpretations.
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Poetry is a risk. We've had it drilled into us a billion times, though our teacher is biased because he's never yet had a kid who wrote on poetry who got an A plus for the exam (even though these same kids have gotten amazing English scores so it's not due to an inability to write), and yet he's had many kids who wrote on the novels, plays, etc and who got high 40's--50. He believes it's because poetry is more subjective than the other texts...
That said, I want to write on poetry anyways just cause I'm a poetry buff, and so I've picked Harwood and Hedda Gabler.
I think it's probably harder to write about the language used in poetry and the rhythm and things. Also, apparently a lot of students write about the poet's life and the poet himself, which is irrelevent. Our teacher is pushing us to do poetry because he thinks that it's generally done badly so we can impress the examiners:P