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  1. mR_CaRL's Avatar
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    • Location: LoNDoN
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    Lit / Lang / Land L: Language
    Level your taking: A2
    Board:AQA
    Set books / work / topics: No Books, and i dont really kno the topics lol... 1) Language Debate 2) I text from other times... i think... hmmm.. lol
  2. makeshiftwings's Avatar
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    • Location: Canterbury/Oxfordshire/Hatfield
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    Username: makeshiftwings
    Lit / Lang / Land L: Lit
    Level your taking: A2
    Board:AQA
    Set books / work / topics: Measure for Measure (Shaky), The General Prologue (Chaucer), synoptic. Coursework - The Great Gatsby and The Virgin Suicides.

    AS: A Clockwork Orange, A Streetcar Named Desire, John Donne. Coursework -The Taming Of The Shrew.
  3. cottonmouth's Avatar
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    (Original post by makeshiftwings)
    Username: makeshiftwings
    Lit / Lang / Land L: Lit
    Level your taking: A2
    Board:AQA
    Set books / work / topics: Measure for Measure (Shaky), The General Prologue (Chaucer), synoptic. Coursework - The Great Gatsby and The Virgin Suicides.

    AS: A Clockwork Orange, A Streetcar Named Desire, John Donne. Coursework -The Taming Of The Shrew.
    lang/lit combo
    a2
    aqa
    omg, everyone else had academic books! i had in as, alice in wonderland and the bfg, and an anthology. a2 othello, and synoptic. coursework i did an argument for immigration (how beneficial it is), and a horror story about a lighthouse. for a2, i transformed brownings "my last duchess" into a story.
  4. Jenny_Cambridge's Avatar
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    • Location: Cambridge
    Eng Lit.
    A2
    AQA B

    AS: Enduring Love par Ian McEwan, Macbeth (Coursework), Death of a Salesman par Arthur Miller and Songs of Innocence and Experience par Blake

    A2: Measure for Measure, Emily Dickinson, Synoptic et Lord of the Flies (Golding) and the Cement Garden (McEwan) for Coursework
  5. student no.9021's Avatar
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    Hi,

    My stats:

    student no.9021
    English Lang. & Lit.
    A2
    AQA B
    Othello, Analysis of different texts, etc.
  6. scatterbrain's Avatar
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    Level your taking:
    Board:
    Set books
    Look, I hate to make niggly points but this is an English thread, and people are just blindly copying out one of the *most* irritating (to me at least) spelling mistakes.

    Sorry bout that, anyway, my stats...
    Lit A2 (with lit/lang for advanced extension)
    Ocr
    King Lear/Chaucer/Postcards with Margret Atwood for coursework
  7. Agrippina's Avatar
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    • Location: Oxford
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    (Original post by scatterbrain)
    Look, I hate to make niggly points but this is an English thread, and people are just blindly copying out one of the *most* irritating (to me at least) spelling mistakes.
    That really irritates me too, I totally know what you mean!
  8. JimmyC's Avatar
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    • Location: Birmingham
    Username: JimmyC
    Lit / Lang / Land L: lang and lit
    Level your taking: A2
    Board:AQA
    Set books / work / topics: Othello for exam, "Knuckle" for text transformation cwk

    oh yeh oops bout the mistake... dont care really
  9. P1nkPrincess's Avatar
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    (Original post by cottonmouth)
    omg, everyone else had academic books! i had in as, alice in wonderland and the bfg
    Mine is exactly the same! Feel silly when people ask what i study & i say two kids books haha!

    Lang & Lit
    A2
    AQA
    At AS level last year, i did The BFG & Alice Adventures in Wonderland. For Coursework i did a speech to be used at a primary school on encouraging children to help charity causes, and i did an article for the guardian newspaper on a for and against argument for animal testing. I also studied the Anthology.
    At A2 Level this year, i studied Othello, and various synoptic papers, and for my tranformation coursework, i transformed Othello into a teenage/modern version.
  10. THE UNDERDOG's Avatar
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    • Posts: 479
    The Underdog
    English Language
    A Level
    Aqa B
    You Lot Know, If Your Taking Aqa B That Is
  11. dudey_cool's Avatar
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    • Location: Germany
    • Posts: 80
    hey,

    Username: dudey_cool
    Lit / Lang / Land L: Pure Literature
    Level your taking: A2
    Board: Edexcel
    Set books / work / topics: AS: Antony + Cleopatra, Hard Times, Edexcel Poetry Anthology and Translations
    A2: Duchess of Malfi and Philip Larkin, Tempest and Translations, Captain Corelli's Mandolin
  12. sexysax's Avatar
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    • Posts: 10,157
    Lang & Lit
    A2
    AQA
    Othello. Synoptic Anthology, A2 English Language and Literature
  13. Lauz_Fairy's Avatar
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    • Location: London
    Lauz_Fairy
    Lit
    A2
    Edexcel
    Othello, Larkin - Whitsun Weddings, Wuthering Heights (compare with Return of hte Native from AS), Mrs Dalloway (coursework) and unseen poetry.
  14. scatterbrain's Avatar
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    (Original post by Eeyore)
    That really irritates me too, I totally know what you mean!
    Yay, someone else understands! :cool:
  15. Diachrom's Avatar
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    Username: Diachrom
    Lit / Lang / Land L: Literature
    Level your taking: A2
    Board: Edexcel
    Set books / work / topics: AS - A Streetcar Named Desire, Betjeman, Hamlet (CW)
    A2 - Othello, Chaucer's A Merhcant's Tale, Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience and Betjeman (Social Commentary), A Passage To India (CW)
  16. Deepbluedragon's Avatar
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    Username : Deepbluedragon
    Lit / Lang / Land L: Language and Literature
    Level your taking: A2
    Board: Edexcel
    Set books / work / topics: Translations, Much Ado About Nothing, Poerty Anthology

    IF YOU WANT MY NOTES FOR A2 OR AS THEN LET ME KNOW!!!

    Gonna put them on ebay soon!
  17. buttons7's Avatar
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    • Location: wherever I like
    • Posts: 862
    Username: Buttons7
    Lit/lang/l&l: Literature
    Level: Just took A2, am hoping to start an English degree in October.
    Board: OCR
    Set books/work/topics:
    AS: 'Othello', Selected poems of TS Eliot, 'Wuthering Heights', 'Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf'
    A2: 'King Lear', 'Paradise Lost' books I&II, Romanticism, 'Catch-22'
  18. Q.E.D's Avatar
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    (Original post by historyhoney)
    Well it makes sense to do one for this as well,

    Username just easier then looking up)
    Lit / Lang / Land L:
    Level your taking:
    Board:
    Set books / work / topics:
    shivani singhal
    Lit and Lang
    GCSE
    OCR
    Exam texts:Opening Lines (poetry), Opening Worlds(short stories), Northanger Abbey, Romeo and Juliet
    Coursework texts: Journey's End, To Kill a Mockingbird, Romeo and Juliet
  19. feeling good's Avatar
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    Username:Feeling Good
    Lit / Lang / Lang L:Lit/Lang
    Level I'm taking:Just finished the AS Course
    Board:AQA (Lit/Lang B)
    Set books / work / topics:Harry Potter/ Tom Brown's schooldays
    Anthology
    Next year:Midsummer Night's Dream.
  20. gemby!'s Avatar
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    • Location: LONDON !
    • Posts: 1,636
    Username: gemby!
    Course: Literature
    Level: A-Level (A2)
    Board: AQA
    Texts: Tess of the D'Urbervilles(coursework) and WW1 stuff.
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