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mangle
14-05-2008, 08:50 AM
What are you doing in the lit exam next week?

I swear my school is the only one doing short stories.

Davii
14-05-2008, 09:22 AM
im not sure which one it is next week cause theres 2 right?

what you mean by short stories?, we studied old man and the sea if that counts or r u on about something else?

CHA!NGANG
14-05-2008, 09:24 AM
I am doing it next week. For us its on: Catcher in the Rye, and Poems.

Davii
14-05-2008, 09:26 AM
I am doing it next week. For us its on: Catcher in the Rye, and Poems.
you doing war poems ??

mangle
14-05-2008, 09:55 AM
I did short stories like - Superman and Paula Browns new snowsuit.

CHA!NGANG
14-05-2008, 09:57 AM
No its not war Poems. Its Poems from another Culture, or, Duffy/Armatiage/Pre-1914 Poems.

mangle
14-05-2008, 10:01 AM
Another culture I did aswell.

Not my business etc?

CHA!NGANG
14-05-2008, 10:07 AM
:o No we did the other cluster I think.

mangle
14-05-2008, 10:10 AM
Damnit!

LOL Well I guess it'll just be me on this forum doing them.

-Eliminate
14-05-2008, 03:20 PM
im doing mice and men & duffy/armitage/pre 1914 poems on tuesday 20th

mangle
14-05-2008, 03:21 PM
I've got the same exam date as you then.

Tristan
14-05-2008, 03:21 PM
I'm doing 'I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings' and 'Inspector Calls' and a poem thing...

mangle
14-05-2008, 03:22 PM
I did I.C in year 10 for my c/w

Energizer
14-05-2008, 03:27 PM
i've got poems, an inspector calls & lotf

Bevvie
14-05-2008, 03:38 PM
Ooo dont worry. I am doing the same thing as you. Next week are short stories in section A and section B are (Heaney+Clarkes+Pre-1914 Bank) or (Armitage+Duffy+Pre-1914).

I am doing Armitage and Duffy ones.

God i am going to do bad. :( Good luck with yours.

mangle
14-05-2008, 03:40 PM
Heaney and Clarke!
Thats me!

Naythi.
14-05-2008, 03:58 PM
Im doing poems from other cultures, like presants from my aunts in pakistan and things lmao.

Jõnathan
14-05-2008, 04:00 PM
Heaney and Clarke!
Thats me!
Simon Arimtage's and Carol Ann Duffy's poems are better than those two.
But I'm doing Seamus Heaney & Gillian Clarke too :(
BUT I am doing To Kill A Mockingbird which is well good

mangle
14-05-2008, 04:00 PM
I despise Seamus Heaney. Can't write a decent poem for his life imo!

Immenseman
14-05-2008, 04:04 PM
I have mine next week on the 20th too. I'm studying 'Of Mice and Men' and doing the Seamus Heany and Gillian Clarke poems.

Bun
14-05-2008, 04:09 PM
I'm doing heroes, poems from different cultures and then Duffy, Armitage, Pre-1914.




fun.

Axel
14-05-2008, 04:13 PM
What are you doing in the lit exam next week?

I swear my school is the only one doing short stories.

I'm doing Short Stories too.... Gold Cadillac, Veronica, Vendetta, Country Lovers, Stench of Kerosene and Schoolteacher's Guest.

Inseriousity.
14-05-2008, 06:52 PM
Aren't poems from another culture on Language paper?

For literature, it's Duffy/Armitage/Pre-1914 and 'Of Mice and Men' :)

Soka
14-05-2008, 09:09 PM
I am doing it next week. For us its on: Catcher in the Rye, and Poems.

i was on aqa last year for my lit / lang

got A in language, and A* in literature

for exam i did 12 poems from anthology, and on catcher in rye - do you like it chaingang? i think it's really good for writing about teenagers - just learnt my notes and theres tonnes of symbollism in there :P thats all i wrote about in exam

Karma
17-05-2008, 11:25 AM
Hey, I have an English Lit Exam on Tuesday the 20th May and the Language one in June, Well our Lit exam is Of Mice and Men and then Duffy & Armitage Poems alone with the Pre 1914 Poems!

Amit

CHA!NGANG
17-05-2008, 11:33 AM
Yeh it's not bad, but... it isn't good to read for fun, but it is good to analyise if you know what I mean.

mangle
17-05-2008, 11:36 AM
Still not looking forward to this, I'm just hoping for a parent/child relationship question.

Yoshimitsui
17-05-2008, 11:37 AM
Im on Welsh Board, doing Of mice and men. And a View from the bridge.

Frodo13.
17-05-2008, 12:06 PM
For my English GCSE we did Lord Of The Flies and Heaney/Clarke poems.

Meanies
17-05-2008, 02:02 PM
We did LOTF and Duffy/Armitage/Pre-1914 poems

I need to learn loads bout LOTF. We only had like 2 lessons about it, then our teacher left.

splatttt
17-05-2008, 03:03 PM
Im doinggg

Duff/Armitage/PRE 1914 & the short stories from the Anthology On tues ;)
x

Georgia
17-05-2008, 03:47 PM
im doing mice and men & duffy/armitage/pre 1914 poems on tuesday 20th


sameee. good luck everyone !

Invent
17-05-2008, 04:21 PM
I'm doing LOTF, Armitage & Duffy, poems from other cultures / pre-1914 poems.

Rcss
17-05-2008, 04:41 PM
I have mine next week on the 20th too. I'm studying 'Of Mice and Men' and doing the Seamus Heany and Gillian Clarke poems.

^^ Ditto x]
Im currently trying to revise the poems ;S

Throne Sofa
17-05-2008, 04:44 PM
I do AQA Spec B.

- Inspector Calls, Lord of the Flies and Best Words pre 1914. Eng lit on Tuesday ahh

Eamonn
17-05-2008, 10:19 PM
i have 'of mice and men', armitage, duffy and pre-1914 on tuesday.

Davii
18-05-2008, 09:33 PM
is nobody else doing old man n the sea??

cocaine
18-05-2008, 09:36 PM
im doing death of salesman!!!

dirrty
18-05-2008, 09:39 PM
im doing 'of mice and men' and 'blood brothers'

Throne Sofa
19-05-2008, 02:59 PM
How do you lot revise for english? :S

Yoshimitsui
19-05-2008, 03:04 PM
For the LIT you need to know basic background of the books, and have read it. Know how to answer using quotes and peeeee paragraphs and what not.

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