Literature 3/4 Roll Call - 2011!

[Menang]

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

[gossamer]

LIT FTW

We're studying:
- Frankenstein
- Katherine Mansfield - Collected Stories
- Chinatown - directed by Roman Polanski
- Cloudstreet
- The Bacchae
- William Blake

[MBBS]

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?

[Menang]

Yes, we totally should.

But I think my school is only getting a few texts exam-ready (the rest we use for SACs).

[chrisjb]

Hells yeah i am doing literature! I am so excited for this subject, I wanna smash everyone in my cohort and get a 50

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

[Ak47]

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

[MBBS]

Ak have you got the Chekhov yet?

I've got a copy on my computer but not actual copy!

[iffets12345]

whats so good about lady with the little dog?

[aznboy50]

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?

[iffets12345]

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

[Cinnah]

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)

[saaaaaam]

Oh God. Katherine Mansfield. Try and avoid it. Luckily (last year) we decided we didn't want to study her short stories after all.

[Cinnah]

I have a list to read.
Of thirty something.
Guuuuuuuuuuuuh =__=''

[saaaaaam]

Have you read her biography? I remember first reading her wikipedia page. She had one of the weirdest lives. 

[Cinnah]

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.