National 5 English 2018/19

Anyone else doing personal reflective for their folio?

I did a music grade exam earlier in the year, so I'm doing it on that. Have you got your first draft back yet? We have and so we're editing it now.

Interesting- the year before us did Carol Ann Duffy poems also, but for textual analysis we're doing William MacCaig poems. We've actually finished annotating all 6 now. I think we'll be moving on to our persuasive essays next week

My friends class is doing Macaig. Our class have only annotated 3 of the poems so far, we did our persuasive last term.

Anyone else doing personal reflective for their folio?

Yes, I am just starting mine. I am going to do it on my fear of failure and how it has affected my life. Do you think this is a good topic?
What about you? what are you doing yours on?

That's a great topic! You'll be able to do good wider reflection with that.
I'm doing mine on when I did a music grade exam for the first time and how I dealt with the pressure.

I’m doing Norman MacCaig and I find his poems quite easy. The only thing I struggle with close reading and the 8 marker (set text)

I feel as though we are the only school that hasn't studied poems yet. We have read Of Mice and Men and Sailmaker by thats about it.

Not everyone will do poetry- you only need to study two different types of text, so since you have a book (Of Mice and Men, critical essay) and a play (Sailmaker, Scottish text), you won't need to do poetry
(Sometimes teachers will give their class a third text so they can have a choice what to answer about in the exam, but that just gives you more to learn, and isn't necessary as you can only use 2 of them in the exam)

I've got my English prelim today. We have only done 3 poems so far out of the 6 but I only know quotes for 3 of them, I'm praying that I don't have to compare a poem to Mrs. Midas.

Thats quite similar actually, because i am guessing you will talk about the stress and anxiety that comes with it?