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VCE Stuff => VCE English Studies => VCE Subjects + Help => VCE Literature => Topic started by: Menang on November 29, 2010, 10:58:45 pm
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And what texts are you studying?
My school has chosen
¬Bacchae & Other Plays - Euripides
¬Hamlet
¬John Keats Major Works
¬The Lady with the Little Dog (& Other Stories) - Anton Chekov
¬Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard
¬Atonement - Ian McEwan
¬The Boat - Nam Le
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LIT FTW :D
We're studying:
- Frankenstein
- Katherine Mansfield - Collected Stories
- Chinatown - directed by Roman Polanski
- Cloudstreet
- The Bacchae
- William Blake
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Same here
-Chinatown
-Cloudstreet
-Lady with the Little Dog
-Gwen Harwood Poetry
-Margaret Atwood- Moral Disorder
-Brian Friel- Freedom of the City
Can we promote discussion of our texts/films in common somehow?
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Yes, we totally should. :)
But I think my school is only getting a few texts exam-ready (the rest we use for SACs).
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Hells yeah i am doing literature! I am so excited for this subject, I wanna smash everyone in my cohort and get a 50 :D
My books/ texts are....
Slaughterhouse 5
The rugmaker of ____________ (can't remember the final word :S) -Actualy, this might be english.. I'm not sure. I'm confused :(
Gwen Harwood Poetry (ughhh! feminism)
A passage to India
Accidnetal Death of an Anarchist
The Fox/ The Captain's Doll/ The Lady Bird by D H Lawrence
:D
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Same as MBBS.
Theoretically we're doing
-Chinatown
-Cloudstreet
-Lady with the Little Dog
-Gwen Harwood Poetry
-Margaret Atwood- Moral Disorder
-Brian Friel- Freedom of the City
thats odd, no ones doing emma? maybe its because they put the lady with the little dog on the list :P
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Ak have you got the Chekhov yet?
I've got a copy on my computer but not actual copy!
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whats so good about lady with the little dog?
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Nothing, AK-47 was upset because he had read Emma 4 times in anticipation of year 12. It then turned out that Emma would not be studied at our school!
You scored 47 for literature! Is there any tips that you can give the 2011 cohort?
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oh lol, I see.
Um, really study the structure of the Literature essay itself, or at least really get your own personally preferred structure downpat. Then you need to work on methods of analysing what you get, how you're going to deal with the passages if you don't like them, what are some basic things that most passages will guarantee you.
it's all abuot practising handling hte passages, because most people know the texts already in lit, its just being able to handle random passags and write a fantastic essay.
tbh I'm not very good at giving advice because I wasn't expecting my english marks to be so high LOL.
talk to ez, give him a pm :)
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I got stuck with:
The Bacchae and other Plays
Collected stories of Catherine Mansfield
This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff
Emma by Jane Austen (ugh Jane Austen)
We're also studying the film Persepolis (based off the graphic novel)
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Oh God. Katherine Mansfield. Try and avoid it. Luckily (last year) we decided we didn't want to study her short stories after all.
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I have a list to read.
Of thirty something.
Guuuuuuuuuuuuh =__=''
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Have you read her biography? I remember first reading her wikipedia page. She had one of the weirdest lives.
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I remember my Lit teacher mentioning that she was strange, but no, I haven't looked into that yet.
I probably should, considering.
...I've just been trying to choke down Emma - it's the first thing we study, and I can understand it and all, but it's just so dry and (seemingly) petty.
I could manage Wuthering Heights last year, which was great, but Emma is just... ick.
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Le gasp! BBC brought out a new Emma mini series last year. I recommend everyone watch it. Most likely it isn't 100% accurate, but it's really good! This is one of my favourite Austen adaptations, it's very lively. If any of you watch Atonement for lit (or just to watch it for fun) the girl who plays the 20 year old version of Briony is the one who plays this Emma.
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Cinnah, I'm reading Emma atm, I find it humorous and enjoyable read xD, up to chapter 10. Volume 1, but its not for school, just for fun lol! ;x
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I did watch the BBC series, the guy who played Knightly did very well :D
I got the audiobook from http://librivox.org/ on my iPod too, which has made it that little bit easier.
I'm up to chapter 8 in volume one,
I don't know, I just really don't like Austen.
I had to study Pride and Prejudice for year 10 lit... but I still haven't read it. xD
This is why I'm trying my very hardest to get through it now, and get that Lit score up.
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Le gasp! BBC brought out a new Emma mini series last year. I recommend everyone watch it. Most likely it isn't 100% accurate, but it's really good! This is one of my favourite Austen adaptations, it's very lively. If any of you watch Atonement for lit (or just to watch it for fun) the girl who plays the 20 year old version of Briony is the one who plays this Emma.
It's lovely! Mr Knightley is to die for
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Le gasp! BBC brought out a new Emma mini series last year. I recommend everyone watch it. Most likely it isn't 100% accurate, but it's really good! This is one of my favourite Austen adaptations, it's very lively. If any of you watch Atonement for lit (or just to watch it for fun) the girl who plays the 20 year old version of Briony is the one who plays this Emma.
It's lovely! Mr Knightley is to die for
I know. Even though (in real life) he's old enough to be my father....
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the guy had a fling with angelina jolie (i believe) Any guy like that gets my respect ;)
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Im doin
Frankenstein
Stasiland
Moveablefeast
Blakes poetry
Chinatown
Freakin out, have you guys all done 1/2
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YESS SOMEONE DOING STASILAND! congrats
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I'm new to this site, but also doing Lit.
I've got:
Freedom of the City-Brian Friel
Emma-Jane Austen
Hamlet
Frankenstein
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I'm doing lit this year. Our texts are:
- Emma - Jane Austen
- The Boat (short stories) - Nam Le
- Atonement - Ian McEwen
- No Sugar - Jack Davis (I think? Mental Blank)
- Stasiland - Jane Funder
- Les Murray's poetry.
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Hi LeahT!
I do the Boat and Atonement too! We should have a thread about that. :P
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Definately. I think I'm the only person in my class who actually liked Atonement, it's weird as. We're doing the SAC for that on text vs. text. Comparing the book to the movie. And I really struggle with those essays, so I'll need all the help I can get xD
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This year for Literature I'm doing:
Frankenstein - Mary Shelly
The Rose Notes - Andrea Mayes
Wolf Notes - Judith Beveridge
The Tempest - William Shakespeare
Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
I decided to pick Literature up this year because English was one of my strongest subjects in Year 11. It's interesting doing such a subject where you have almost complete freedom with your writing. I still haven't quite got my head around it yet; I probably work better with directions and a set structure. The variety of novels I'm reading though, should make Literature this year quite enjoyable!
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I picked up Lit, yay!
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Chinatown
Emma
Freedom of the City
Gwen Harwood poetry
Lady Windermere's Fan
Katherine Mansfield's short stories
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Atonement
Frankenstein
Cloudstreet
Hamlet
Poetry
Yes, I got all the awesome books people.
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Atonement
Frankenstein
Cloudstreet
Hamlet
Poetry
Yes, I got all the awesome books people.
Cloudstreet :( I am beyond jealous!
-Atonement
-This Boys Life
-The Boat
-Lady Winderemere's Fan
-William Blake Poetry
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- This Boy's Life
- Chinatown
- The Boat
- Hamlet
- The poetry of William Blake
- A Passage to India
Lit's ridiculously easy - just verbose, sesquipedalian bullshit (how about that for hendiadys?), and you'll secure yourself a comfortable A+ with any examiner.
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The Tempest - William Shakespeare
The Aunt's Story - Patrick White
The Hunter - Julia Leigh
Tennyson's poems...
Our school chose some odd books to do, still don't get why my teacher threw White in the pile. It killed everyone.
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My school does:
Chinatown (non exam film)
Keats
The dressmaker (non exam text)
Hamlet
Stasiland
Atonement
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Literature! My most adored subject ever ever ever. Sitting and talking about books? Um, yes please!
We do:
Hamlet (good ol' Shakespeare)
Gwen Harwood's poetry.
Ethan Frome
Atonement - Ian McEwan.
Agamemnon's Kiss - Inga Clendinnen.
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My books are:
-The Tempest (William Shakespeare)
-The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne Bronte)
-The Bacchae (Euripides)
-Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
-Blakes Poetry and Designs
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In chronological order;
Chinatown - Directed by Roman Polanski
Lady Windermere's Fan - Oscar Wilde
The Fox/The Captain's Doll/The Ladybird - D.H. Lawrence
Blake's Poetry And Designs - William Blake
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Greatest subject ever.
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Just wondering, is anyone around hear studying 'Wolf Notes' - poetry by Judith Beveridge?
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yes! i love wolf notes!
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Yay!
It took me a while to like it... but I do now! There's so much to write about in each poem :D
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yeah its great, and you can pretty much pull anything from it because it is so abstract..
but i am so not prepared as i could be.
so, planning on winging it a bit..
i love reading it as opposed to writing about it.
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Just wondering, is anyone around hear studying 'Wolf Notes' - poetry by Judith Beveridge?
Yes my school is as well, my favourite poem is Path!
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Haha fair enough. I say just keep looking at the six poems which haven't been on an exam yet. I haven't studied anything else, so I'm praying VCAA will be nice to me!
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which six??
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Just wondering, is anyone around hear studying 'Wolf Notes' - poetry by Judith Beveridge?
Yes my school is as well, my favourite poem is Path!
Haha Path was the very first poem I looked at. It draws Siddhattha's journey to a close smoothly and gracefully. I've got my fingers crossed it will be on the exam :P
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which six??
- The Lake
- Dawn
- The River
- A Vow
- In the Forest
- Path
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excellent! they're my favourite and the pieces i have been studying on (thanks to vate notes)
good luck!!
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Haha well that's good!!
And good luck to you too :)
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- Chinatown
- Ye Olde Schlachthof Fünf
- Emma
- Gwennie Harwood
- Hamletius
Hamlet and Harwood, the ol' one two, for the exam. Aaaaaaand will keel over dead ten minutes in, I think.
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Lysistrata
Dressmaker
The french Lieutenants woman
The Tempest
Blake Poetry
Anton Chekhov short stories