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caffinatedloz:

--- Quote from: literally lauren on October 20, 2019, 09:39:15 pm ---You are very welcome! Sucks that EngLang isn't an option for you :'( but I hope you enjoy Literature! I'm sure the creative and heavy text-focused elements of that subject will be fun for you, and I believe most schools get you to do one oral presentation each year (for Units 1&2 and 3&4). Other than that, maybe you could continue debating into VCE and have a fun extra-curricular to break up the studying!

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110% going to continue next year! Unfortunately my team got knocked out of finals only two rounds in this year, so my season is over. But I'm coaching 28 year sevens who've never debated before (along with another year ten) so I'm still getting my fix atm. I think our school recently added in an oral presentation for literature (they used not to have one) so I'm very glad about that!

Calebark:
1732 days ago I attended an English lecture where the lecturer asked the audience to provide a few random words. At the end of the lecture, she wrote a small paragraph on a topic, which had incorporated all of these words.

If I was to say wood, village, and rug, would you be able to do this again for a random topic or text?

cherryblossoms:
Could you give some tips on how to write a comparative argument analysis essay, where we have to compare two articles instead of one?

QCAAMemes:
Hi, what advice do you have for excelling in literature? I feel like a lot of it (especially the imaginative story IA3) comes down to the teachers personal writing preference, and because of this my marks tend to fluctuate as I never seem to nail it. Also, do you have any tips for writing a good thesis for the IA2?
Edit: IA2* not IA3

literally lauren:

--- Quote from: whys on October 20, 2019, 09:42:03 pm ---Thank you!

Aaaand a follow up question, if you don't mind: do you have a puppy/dog of your own?

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One day... a girl can dream :'(


--- Quote from: insanipi on October 20, 2019, 09:43:16 pm ---Now that we know your favourite books, what are the books that you hate the most? :P

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Ooooooooooooooohhh boy. Okay I'm going to limit myself to one, and it's actually a book I had to "study" at school...


This sorry excuse for a book is about a boy who gets a bit sad because his brother goes drunk driving and kills someone (or nearly kills someone, I don't remember) but it's okay because footy and a hot girl make him feel better. *heavy eye roll*

To save everyone the trouble of reading it, it's about a small village that's "torn apart by tragedy"  ::) because some idiot gets drunk and smashes into another car, killing someone innocent before he then hits a hardwood tree that safely stops him so he walks away unscathed. But we don't follow the potentially interesting plotline of a young man coming to terms with the harrowing consequences of his recklessness - we follow his milquetoast brother who has no personality beyond footy and moody scowling.

It's also a book that features my LEAST FAVOURITE TROPE EVER, which is the "that girl is so hot, I've never spoken to her, but I'm in love with her, but she's so perfect, except she's DAMAGED, and if only she could see that what's missing from her life is me, a mediocre idiot boy."  ::) And at the end of the book, this main character (whose name I genuinely couldn't recall even though his name is in the fkin title) is rewarded for overcoming his trauma* (!?) by winning his footy game and getting to have sex with the hot girl on a rock.

* As far as I could tell, his trauma was that he had a sook and threw up on a rug one time.

I bear no ill will against the author, but I have no earthly clue why it was put on our Year 10 reading list. Actually, I kinda do - I think they chose it to get the male students interested in English, and I was thoroughly offended on behalf of every male in my class because this seemed like an utterly, despicably condescending way to be like "yo boys, sometimes books are about footy and sex, how cool is that??" I hated it and it was awful and I have probably suppressed a bunch of other awful details that I don't want to be reminded of. If anyone has any questions, I won't be answering them kthxbai


--- Quote from: Calebark on October 20, 2019, 10:14:28 pm ---1732 days ago I attended an English lecture where the lecturer asked the audience to provide a few random words. At the end of the lecture, she wrote a small paragraph on a topic, which had incorporated all of these words.

If I was to say wood, village, and rug, would you be able to do this again for a random topic or text?

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See above ;)

also omg it's been 1733 days since the first ever ATAR Notes lecture?? though I have no idea what freak of a lecturer you're talking about 8)

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