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Discogirl17
Posted 26 March 2005 - 12:38 AM
Ok there is no hard and fast rule about personal studies but whatever book you use must be approved by your tecaher as having a certain level of literary merit- this basically means it can't just be a narrative it needs to include some sort of techniques. In general childrens books whether short-story, novel or even epic-novel should be avoided. Therefore dont do:
*Harry Potter
*Lord of the Rings
etc
and dont do
*the diary of David Beckham or whoever!
*Harry Potter
*Lord of the Rings
etc
and dont do
*the diary of David Beckham or whoever!
Shaun
Posted 28 March 2005 - 08:00 AM
I thought Animal Farm was a great book to do. It isn't too long (something like 100 pages) and has very clear techinques, such as repetition, imagery, irony (that the Animals set out to be different from the Humans but in the end some of the animals ended up exactly like the Humans they originally despised) and so on...
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Posted 29 March 2005 - 11:27 AM
i done cider with rosie by Laurie Lee. it was a really good book, maybe interesting but maybe not. there was evidently a high levelk of literacy required but for my question (the maturation of the main character) i found it ok to research and analyses effectively at higher english level.
Guest_n00bie!_*
Posted 29 March 2005 - 03:20 PM
I'm currently studying the 'Cone Gatherers'
It's a really good book - LOTS of imagery, symbolism, hidden meaning and the like...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/education/en...nes/index.shtml
It's a really good book - LOTS of imagery, symbolism, hidden meaning and the like...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/education/en...nes/index.shtml
krazykooki
Posted 31 March 2005 - 07:57 PM
im doing The Snapper by Roddy Doyle and found it quite easy there is lots of humour, characterisation, and unusual narrative but ma frien is doing it as well an she didn't find it that easy an decided to swap to her other choice so i think its a book you either find very easy or very hard
Discogirl17
Posted 15 April 2005 - 12:07 PM
Yeh at our school we had a list of the best books for each genre but also were allowed to choose outside this list as long as the teacher approved it.
I did "The Life and Loves of a She-Devil" by Faye Weldon. Its really interesting and has so many events you could write about. Its basically a narrative with technique aplenty.
I did "The Life and Loves of a She-Devil" by Faye Weldon. Its really interesting and has so many events you could write about. Its basically a narrative with technique aplenty.
herbeey
Posted 24 April 2005 - 02:54 PM
I'm doing horribly on timed essay's in english this year. I have always done... which is why I could easily pass SG.
I asked to borrow 2 shakespeare books, and I'd choose which one I'd use... if any.
I chose Hamlet (Othello SUCKED). Since I've been doing so badly in any timed writing, my teacher was very worried that I coulkd manage it... I think most books are quite passable, as long as you choose a question which enables you to talk about the elements of the book which interest you most.
What was everyone's questions anyway?
Mine was something along the lines of; How does shakespeare employ the use of masks to show *something something* about the characters.
I asked to borrow 2 shakespeare books, and I'd choose which one I'd use... if any.
I chose Hamlet (Othello SUCKED). Since I've been doing so badly in any timed writing, my teacher was very worried that I coulkd manage it... I think most books are quite passable, as long as you choose a question which enables you to talk about the elements of the book which interest you most.
What was everyone's questions anyway?
Mine was something along the lines of; How does shakespeare employ the use of masks to show *something something* about the characters.
Discogirl17
Posted 24 April 2005 - 10:33 PM
Yeh I wouldn't recommend that unless ur great at English. I didn't really like Othello. Macbeth is my favourite, despite the nasty Scottish king and the terrible consequences when u say it in a theatre.
herbeey
Posted 11 May 2005 - 09:39 PM
Plays are so much more interesting and easy to do than novels.
Novels can be subtle with stuff, like; rain outside implies impending doom for gatsby's meeting with Daisy, or whatever...
Plays have to be more straight forward, and subtle in ways which people can still subconciously catch on to, but they don't have to be trying so hard to get all the subtlties out of every few lines. Plays can't hide essential stuff between the lines. Stage directions are much easier to find, and do the same job...
Also, with plays, everything is spoken to an audience. There is less room for UBER complicatedness, and irrelevant characters.
My axe hath been ground.
Novels can be subtle with stuff, like; rain outside implies impending doom for gatsby's meeting with Daisy, or whatever...
Plays have to be more straight forward, and subtle in ways which people can still subconciously catch on to, but they don't have to be trying so hard to get all the subtlties out of every few lines. Plays can't hide essential stuff between the lines. Stage directions are much easier to find, and do the same job...
Also, with plays, everything is spoken to an audience. There is less room for UBER complicatedness, and irrelevant characters.
My axe hath been ground.