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Started by fatboy in Chit-Chat

Its offical - I’m back in college later this month to start A-Level English.

Any other WoMbles doing any college/night schools this year?

I’m looking forward to mine.

Posted on Thu, 6 September 2007 at 11:39

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deadsetgav wrote:

I’m supposed to be studying towards my MCP / MCAD to get it before the end of the year, but I’ve been a bit lazy :(

Posted on Thu, 6 September 2007 at 11:44

#2

Alan wrote:

Yep, going into the final year of my degree in Manufacturing Engineering. I’ve been doing it in evening classes for the last eternity, it seems…

… and yes, it is as boring as the title suggests.

Posted on Thu, 6 September 2007 at 16:26

#3

fatboy wrote:

I’m only doing this A-Level to get me doing something.

Posted on Thu, 6 September 2007 at 16:30

#4

Gimme Back My Brainsaw (fuck democracy) wrote:

Yeaah im doing a national diploma in media production. supposidly full time though im only in 3 days a week and on one of them i have 3 hours off lol.

Posted on Thu, 6 September 2007 at 18:14

#5

fatboy wrote:

Does anyone have an idea what this A-Level includes, like books I’ll be reading and all that.

Cheers.

Posted on Mon, 10 September 2007 at 17:00

#6

Gimme Back My Brainsaw (fuck democracy) wrote:

is it litrature or language or the a level that combines them both?

Posted on Mon, 10 September 2007 at 17:23

#7

not_that_kind_of_guy (a story on the radio) wrote:

good luck fatboy, hope it all goes well.

Posted on Mon, 10 September 2007 at 17:42

#8

efilnikufesin wrote:

I done an A level in History and it was broken into an AS level one term and an A2 level the next term, with each having three modules and exams, so yours might have a simliliar format.

Posted on Mon, 10 September 2007 at 22:32

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CS (Colin S) wrote:

All I know of is A Level English Literature, and there is a lot of reading in that. Like efil-whatshisname said, in my school, at least, the course is broken down into AS and A2 level.
Find out what exam board you are doing the A-Level through, visit their site, and you will get the whole breakdown of the course!

Hope this helps,

Colinx

Posted on Mon, 10 September 2007 at 22:43

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hoochalobster (Sarah) Super Moderator wrote:

You should get a reading list when you start, or find out which examining body your college uses and check their website. I know Philip Larkin and Sylvia Plath are on our reading list, can’t think of any others off the top of my head :s

Posted on Mon, 10 September 2007 at 22:49

#11

CS (Colin S) wrote:

Well copied, Sarah :p

Colinx

Posted on Mon, 10 September 2007 at 22:58

#12

hoochalobster (Sarah) Super Moderator wrote:

Dammit! The reason is that I go to ‘new posts’ and then open each link in a separate tab before going through them… so often 10 minutes have passed since I opened the thread and I don’t see the new posts until after I’ve replied. I think this is the first time I’ve been caught out by it though :o

Posted on Mon, 10 September 2007 at 23:08

#13

CS (Colin S) wrote:

It won’t be the last time, not with me here! ;)

Colinx

Posted on Mon, 10 September 2007 at 23:11

#14

fatboy wrote:

hoochalobster wrote:

I know Philip Larkin and Sylvia Plath are on our reading list, can’t think of any others off the top of my head :s

Mine is a combined course. I have a book of Philip Larkin’s poems, but what parts of Sylvia Plath’s work will I be reading? Her poems or the Bell Jar? Many thanks for answering my question.

Posted on Tue, 11 September 2007 at 11:22 in reply to an earlier post

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hoochalobster (Sarah) Super Moderator wrote:

Pasted from our KS5 handbook:

Main texts:

Cold Mountain
The Tempest
A Woman of no Importance
High Windows
Don Juan (Byron)
Hamlet
The Bell Jar
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest

Wider reading:

General Literary Criticism

“Modern critical Theory”
“How To Write Critical Essays” David B. Price
“The Critical Eye” Don Shiach
“The Critical Examination” M. Peet and D. Robinson

“Literary Theory: An Anthology”
“Literary Theory: An Introduction”

“Introducing Feminism”
“Introducing Freud”

“The Crown of Life” G. Wilson Knight (Shakespeare)
“Studying Shakespeare” Casebook Series
“Jacobean Theatre” Stratford Upon Avon Studies

Suggested reading for Unit 6:

Prose

“Dispatches” Michael Herr
“Birdsong” Sebastian Faulks
The Regeneration Trilogy” Pat Barker
“Testament of Youth” Vera Brittain
“Strange Meeting” Susan Hill
“The English Patient” Michael Ondaatje
“A Farewell to Arms” Ernest Hemingway
“The Ice Cream War” William Boyd

Poetry / Anthologies

“Men Who March Away”
“In Time of War”
“Poetry of the First World War”
“War Poetry”
“Scars Upon the Heart - Women’s Poetry of the First World War”
Poems of Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke etc.

Non-fiction

“Somme” Lynn Macdonald
“Selected Letters” Wilfred Owen
“History of War”
“Letters from a Lost Generation”
“Biography of Siegfried Sassoon”
“Women’s Writing on the First World War” Agnes Cardinal (ed)

Drama

“Journey’s End” RC Sheriff
“Oh what a Lovely War!” Joan Littlewood
“The Accrington Pals” Peter Whelan
“The Long and the Short and the Tall” Willis Hall
“Not About Heroes” Stephen MacDonald

Useful websites
http://www.ox.ac.uk (Search WW1)
http://www.firstworldwar.com/poetsandprose/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/worldwarone/

Posted on Tue, 11 September 2007 at 11:50

#16

mrs h wrote:

Won’t Fatboy be with the Welsh Exam Board? :p

Posted on Tue, 11 September 2007 at 11:53

#17

mrs h wrote:

http://www.wjec.co.uk/uploads/publications/679.pdf
set texts are on page 15.

Posted on Tue, 11 September 2007 at 12:07

#18

hoochalobster (Sarah) Super Moderator wrote:

We are with WJEC, mum :p

Posted on Tue, 11 September 2007 at 14:59

#19

mrs h wrote:

lol :D - Fair enough. You might want to update your reading lists!! :p

Posted on Tue, 11 September 2007 at 16:46

#20

hoochalobster (Sarah) Super Moderator wrote:

I hope not, they’ve been handed out now :s

Heheh, I may well have been looking at an old version of the handbook *prays*

Posted on Tue, 11 September 2007 at 19:13

#21

Punkwak (Tijn) wrote:

i usually read spanish books for my journey in republic of dominicanion and jamaica.. :D
don’t understand a single word :p

cheers moi bien

Posted on Tue, 11 September 2007 at 19:16

#22

Viirkokka wrote:

You already said it’s a joint course but I’m just about to start my second year of A-level English Language (I got an A for my AS) and it’s a really interesting course! You learn a lot about how people manipulate conversation, how advertising is used on us, language development in kids and how genders use language differently. I’m sure there’s more but I can’t remember right now haha :D

Posted on Tue, 11 September 2007 at 22:46

#23

Gimme Back My Brainsaw (fuck democracy) wrote:

I was going to do english language, untill I decided i wasnt going to do A levels and go for a diploma instead. I wouldnt mind doing the English A Level as a night class if thats possible.

it’s the subject i’m best at thanks to an ex girlfriends nan teaching me and really pushing me for most of year 9 and 10 (and in year 9 they had to put me in top set as I was excluded on the first day and they’d out some new kid into my slot in the intermediate class and no other class seemed to have the room for me)

I quite enjoy writing things to be honnest, I always enjoyed doing English courswork, and what I used to find handy was paying no attention in class, then I’d write the essay from scratch just by lucking at the question and the teacher would give me extra marks for being original and not just regurgitating what had been said in class (tbh I couldnt of if i wanted to)

Posted on Tue, 11 September 2007 at 23:54

#24

mrs h wrote:

If you’re going to do a night class I would strongly recommend that you wait until you’ve finished your diploma. The last thing you need is to be saddled with unnecessary extra work in the middle of your exams!

Posted on Thu, 13 September 2007 at 11:02

#25

Gimme Back My Brainsaw (fuck democracy) wrote:

yeah but for my diploma im only in 3 days a week, so have plenty of time on tuesdays and thursdays to do work.

Posted on Thu, 13 September 2007 at 11:12

#26

mrs h wrote:

You have plenty of time now. Later in the year when you have 6 assignments due in at once and all the labs and resources are booked out because everyone is panicking about exams it won’t seem like that at all. Trust me, I speak from experience :)

Posted on Thu, 13 September 2007 at 11:16

#27

Gimme Back My Brainsaw (fuck democracy) wrote:

I dont have any exams, its all assesed as I go.

Posted on Thu, 13 September 2007 at 11:39

#28

mrs h wrote:

well even so, if you have 2 days off timetable I will bet you anything you have more than enough work to fill them as the course progresses. Good luck with it anyhow :)

Posted on Thu, 13 September 2007 at 11:42

#29

fatboy wrote:

mrs h wrote:

Won’t Fatboy be with the Welsh Exam Board? :p

I will be.

Posted on Thu, 13 September 2007 at 11:46 in reply to an earlier post

#30

mrs h wrote:

There you go then! :) If you check out that document i posted it should have everything you need to know - but bear in mind that different colleges will pick out different texts to use, you probably won’t be doing all of them.

Posted on Thu, 13 September 2007 at 11:59

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