Urgent!: English needs *you*-the EE1 bitch and procrastination thread (2 Viewers)

[illodous]

Errr.. it's an all boys' public school... lol.
Better yet, the teacher is pedantic as all hell. He told us that every fornight until the HSC itself he would hold us back and train us "like racehorses"

 

[Illidan]

hmm. we were told learning the convetions is the key to success. although, listing conventions in an exam won't get me many marks if i dont have examples lol

 

[monique66]

Hello all~ I have decided to join your ranks as i drink coffee and eat my ever so pleasant danish...mmm...danish...

As for ext1 i'm very very p*ssed off that my trial consisted of two essays! well a letter and an essay to be more precise but no creative writing piece?! I came out of that one unahppy child!

 

[kami]

We did Cordelia first as well, which I may add was *much* better than the horrible Big Sleep...especially as our teacher jumped around the classroom when she was mimicing Clarissa

 

[illodous]

lol I wish it were that simple. the conventions of all texts are tatooed in my brain but it involves a bit more than simply quoting them.

 

[Illidan]

i wonder if he'll notice i'm a couple of hundered words to sort. i swear wordcount isn't going up just to spite me. 1046 so far...

 

[illodous]

I had to do critical analysis' on 3 other texts, each to be over 3,000 words in length, demonstrating every last detail.. it had to total something like 10,000 words altogether. I nearly died when I realised that's more than my Major Work and Reflection put together :S

 

[monique66]

Did anyone do Anil's Ghost as a text?

 

[illodous]

Did anyone do Anil's Ghost as a text?

Nope, heard funny things about it, though.

 

[Illidan]

hmm. haven't heard any mention of a reflection so far. p'robly wont' be since this is my last assignment for ee1. strange...

 

[kami]

Did anyone do Anil's Ghost as a text?

I did all four of the prescribeds...Anil's Ghost is heaps better than Marlowe as well, I found it was very fragmented but the introspective style drew me in.

 

[Illidan]

EDIT (glitterfairy): Please feel free to direct people to your thread asking for critique on your story, but do not re-post the entire thing here :S that's essentially double-posting --> mod headache.

 

[glitterfairy]

Ondaatje did Anil's Ghost, right?

If it's anything like English Patient or in The Skin of a Lion, I might be able to help you out.

*was trained by an Ondaatje fanatic*

 

[monique66]

haha, yeah he did he did the english patient too

edit: i see you already mentioned that, i'm just being vague today

 

[glitterfairy]

Ok. Keywords.

Metafiction, Metaphors, introverted, lyrical prose

 

[illodous]

I can see it happen sometime in the future - that we will be asked to write a straight-out reflection like that in EE2. I guess in a way that's the first section of the EE1 paper anyway.. meh.

 

[Illidan]

thanks for your comment on the other post i had illodous. i'll have a go.

 

[kami]

Ok. Keywords.

Metafiction, Metaphors, introverted, lyrical prose

I said introverted first...*teardrop*

And there better not be any more Reflecting in English *shakes fist*

 

[monique66]

I said introverted first...*teardrop*

And there better not be any more Reflecting in English *shakes fist*

hey i said *shakes fist* first..lol

 

[illodous]

I think they decided to limit the amount of reflection because they like to run the HSC english courses Brave New World style - conditioned at the dawn of senior studies (aka Year 11), given soma through the canteen to make us into mindless drones and taught the basics of our study machines in Personal Education.

Oh, did I mention that blackboards are hypotising devices

lol BOS know if they introduce more reflective statements, there would be more angst and not enough of the keywords they like to hear.