


best personal study?
#1
Posted 12 June 2006 - 04:25 PM

#2
Posted 12 June 2006 - 06:45 PM
Wake, melancholy Mother, wake and weep!
Yet wherefore? Quench within their burning bed
Thy fiery tears, and let thy loud heart keep,
Like his, a mute and uncomplaining sleep;
#3
Posted 13 June 2006 - 07:03 AM
#4
Posted 13 June 2006 - 02:34 PM
1. Deutschland, Deutschland über alles,
Über alles in der Welt,
Wenn es stets zu Schutz und Trutze
Brüderlich zusammenhält,
Von der Maas bis an die Memel,
Von der Etsch bis an den Belt -
Deutschland, Deutschland über alles,
Über alles in der Welt.
#5
Posted 13 June 2006 - 03:02 PM
#6
Posted 13 June 2006 - 03:08 PM
I chose 1984,
Oh so did I! Was a really good book. Just pick a book that you will enjoy reading/have already read as you will have more motivation to study if it you enjoy it rather than doing it on a book you find really boring and dull.
#7
Posted 13 June 2006 - 06:47 PM
Just pick a book that you will enjoy reading/have already read as you will have more motivation to study if it you enjoy it rather than doing it on a book you find really boring and dull.
Agreed - but check with your English teacher to make sure that the book you choose is complex enough that you can write in depth about it.
Wake, melancholy Mother, wake and weep!
Yet wherefore? Quench within their burning bed
Thy fiery tears, and let thy loud heart keep,
Like his, a mute and uncomplaining sleep;
#8
Posted 14 June 2006 - 10:03 AM
I found 'Northern Lights' by Philip Pullman a great one to do for personal study last year. It's not a particularly demanding text in terms of complicity and it's full of symbolism and other things to write about.
I agree with Ali. Whilst Northern Lights is a compelling and detailed book, in the end, it's written for children, so you'll have little trouble picking up on the numerous themes throughout the book. I would have did my personal study on it, if I'd read it back then.
I did my personal study on 'Attack of the Crab Monsters' by Lawrence Raab, which was an interesting poem about the hidden consequences of scienctific experiements.
#9
Posted 14 June 2006 - 02:54 PM
If you do choose one of these novels, try and make sure to do the work, take your own notes and ultimately gain your own, unique understanding of the novel instead of regurgitating someone else's at sparknotes.com, or any other outside resource. That's what the personal study is all about: analysing and evaluating a text on your own merit. Having said that, don't disregard/ignore such resources completely, as they allow you to make sure you are not comletely off with your analysis, and to better understand aspects of the text you are unclear about.
#10
Posted 14 June 2006 - 09:55 PM
#11
Posted 14 June 2006 - 10:03 PM
People at my school did Memoirs of a Geisha and said it was really good, although it might be getting overdone now. But it's probably still ok.
#12
Posted 15 June 2006 - 04:38 PM

#13
Posted 15 June 2006 - 06:57 PM
#14
Posted 15 June 2006 - 10:21 PM
Hopefully the story is not too complicated to do a review on.
Don't know about other people, but I completely loathed English.... my-weakest-subject ever..... and i don't feel like studying for it, which makes the matter worst.

#15
Posted 16 June 2006 - 09:05 PM
#16
Posted 19 June 2006 - 10:11 PM
I mean.. oh my god.... is there something wrong with me? I thought this is dicken's finest work?
#17
Posted 19 June 2006 - 10:17 PM

i did the lost continent
#18
Posted 20 June 2006 - 07:02 PM
But anyway, Gatsby is a good choice since it's short (a key factor for me lol) and there's loads in it. Who cares if it's been done loads of times; they're not looking for anything off-the-wall. Your essay just has to be Higher standard!
#19
Posted 21 June 2006 - 07:26 PM
#20
Posted 28 June 2006 - 09:31 PM
Has anyone here read it? And can any of you suggest a good type of question for a book thats filled with very obvious themes.
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