Junior Cert English Higher Level Revision Day 2012
| Time | Programme |
| 08:30 - 09:15 | Students Check-in and get their 210 page Lecture and Revision Book. |
| 09:15 - 10:10 | COMPOSING:WHAT WORKS! SHORT STORY – How to make your story special! Learn what it is to shape a story, to engage with the reader. The art of clever plotting & lively description – SAMPLES! How do you Create a PERSUASIVE ARTICLE for yourself & the examiner? How to electrify a SPEECH! How to write a convincing PERSONAL ESSAY We will explain what the examiner rewards in your work. |
| 10:10 - 10:20 | RESPOND Personally TO POETRY - Explained - The New Response Expectations in 2011 Questions |
| 10:20 - 10:45 | POETRY 1 PLATH – The Enigma - Art Encounters Suffering: Daringly Conveyed in 4 poems. |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | 15 minute break. |
| 11:00 - 11:30 Paper 1 Skills | Comprehending A: Comprehending B: |
11:30 - 11:50 11:50 - 12:10 |
POETRY2 LARKIN: Truth and irony: theme and imagery explored in 4 poems KINSELLA: Being confident with the new poems – seeing the links between them - Tracing Themes. Don't leave him out! |
Note on Poetry Presentations: THE POETRY TASKS MAY VARY IN NATURE EVERY YEAR We will show you how to Study 4 poems per poet to better help you deal with Theme, Style, & Technique in all 7 poets we cover on the day. There will be IDEAS and sample responses For All 8 Poets in the Lecture Book. |
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| 12:10 | 5 minute break in the Hall/Room. |
| 12:15 - 13:10 | HAMLET LECTURE 1. “ Hamlet“ – A False Lover? A Disobedient Son? LECTURE 2. A Precisely worked Sample Answer Exploring: “The Exercise of Power and the Victims it creates in Hamlet” |
| 13:10 - 13:55 | Lunch Break - 45 mins. |
| 13:55 - 14:15 | POETRY 3 RICH - Persuasive Ideas Conveyed in Appealing Language - in 4 poems |
THE COMPARATIVE: You MUST Compare Not Only Your Texts But YOUR Response To Them As Reader IN 2011, AS IN 2010, THE EXAM NEITHER REQUIRED NOR REWARDED THE REHEARSED, POLISHED ANSWER. What is the task, really, in a Comparative Question? Can you shape a ready-made response for a different task? How to adapt and not parrot & so waste all your careful preparation! How do you demonstrate awareness of yourself as a READER? How do you engage with the question? How do you get involved and show your involvement in the texts? See Exam Emphasis ‘09: The Need For Extended/Developed Comparison Exam emphasis ‘10 – Be the Reader!! Read the Questions again! Exam emphasis 2011 – Compare how your understanding of your feelings was affected by your encounters with the texts. POSSIBLE COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS TO PONDER FOR 2012 Compare how a THEME contributed to your understanding of plot in 2/3 texts GVVP: Compare how light and dark moments in 2/3 texts influenced your mood LG: Compare the impact of author's approaches- comic, serious, tragic, metaphorical etc.-on character development Detailed notes with quotes and paginated reference for a LG and GVVP for OVER 30 Texts as well as THEMES creatively in a number of explored in popular texts |
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| 15:10 - 15:15 | Short break. |
| 15:15 - 16:00 | POETRY 4 BOLAND: Why we love her Poems of Love and Protest: Theme, Her Gentle Tone and recognisable Imagery HEANEY: Why he is so Brilliant! + The New Poems explored. His Kind Vision and Language Craft illustrated in a Sample Answer. |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | THE UNSEEN POEM How to get FULL MARKS! Responding to the Unseen Poem – How to gain the 20 Marks ! This brings the main day to a close, with many students leaving at this point. |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | POETRY 3 (Optional) KAVANAGH: The Outsider – The Mystic. |
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