Conor said:
I have Eng lit and ICT tomorrow... if you are doing ICT aswell, it must be a different course (or else i'll scan in the paper for you
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For English Lit, I study "An Inspector Calls" and the post-1914 poetry also.
I do "Roll of Thunder... Hear My Cry" by Mildred D Taylor instead of "Of Mice and Men" which is good in a way because I won't have a whining Mustaine in my head when i'm trying to do my exams
I haven't heard that song...but I wish I had done Golding's 'Lord of the Flies' instead, so I could hum Maiden to myself!
Well, in the exam situation, things went reasonably well today. I wrote 9.75 sides overall for English Lit., so I think I showed myself well in that, although the questions weren't great. In case you're wondering, Conor, I went for the Sheila question in An Inspector Calls and the 'Compare An Advancement of Learning with another poem dealing with a significant experience' question in Post-1914 poetry. I compared it with Roe-Deer (which I think worked quite well. For those who don't know, they both deal with nature, specifically a certain creature. Heaney's poem ('An Advancement...') deals with growing up, while Roe-Deer harkens back to a time when man and beast were closer...they played off each other quite well, methinks
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In Latin, it was (as expected) finished by everyone in the first hour, out of a two hour paper. *Yawn*
The momentum translation/comprehension was easy enough, most of the answers I couldn't figure out right off I managed to infer from the context of the sentence etc. etc.
Caesar was ridiculously easy and straightforward. For anyone who's read his account of the 55 B.C. invasion, our passages were 'British Chiefs Take Advantage of the Confusion' and 'Chariot-Fighting' (one of my favourites). They were mainly translation/comprehension questions, with some general opinion/background questions.
Background was a bit hit-and-miss. Most questions I knew right off (for example, we had to name Africa and Macedonia as provinces on a map); the only question I know I got wrong was one about St. Paul. It asked 'Why had St. Paul been sent to Rome', and as this had only been mentioned in passing in our textbook I never bothered learning it (I know, I know, I'm a Christian and a Classicist and therefore should have known it, but still....
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Well, R.E. tomorrow. And I think I may scrape a good mark, since I can actually remember most of the stuff!
Later
Silky