Official Higher English 2013-2014 Thread

How much did your folio affect your grade? Did it boost your grade or did you have to work hard to compensate for it? What was your percentage (if you know)?

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The folio can certainly boost your grade if you put enough work into it. I got an A1, however, I'd say this was more down to my folio (18/20), as the marks I got for the other sections were decidedly average IIRC. You probably want to ensure a roughly even spread across the folio, crit essays, and the CR, though, so there's no pressure for you to perform extremely highly in one section to compensate.

Reply 61

Pennyarcade

14

I got 23 for one of my essays on 'the crucible' and Im pretty sure I can adapt the essay to fit most questions on the play (using same quotes, rough analysis etc). Is it a good idea to do this? Or should I reshape essays and use completely different quotes and analysis depending on the question? Ive heard different things from people..

Reply 62

kylerfc

Original post by Pennyarcade

I got 23 for one of my essays on 'the crucible' and Im pretty sure I can adapt the essay to fit most questions on the play (using same quotes, rough analysis etc). Is it a good idea to do this? Or should I reshape essays and use completely different quotes and analysis depending on the question? Ive heard different things from people..

Personally, I would only completely 'copy' the essay if the exact question came up. If one with similar wording on the same theme then I would predominantly use the same quotes and analysis but altering the words slightly so as it answers the question. If the question is on something else then I would start from scratch and think how I can that answer. It doesn't mean you couldn't use some similar quotes or analysis but you should be flexible. Remember it is all about answering the question.

Reply 63

Pennyarcade

14

Original post by kylerfc

Personally, I would only completely 'copy' the essay if the exact question came up. If one with similar wording on the same theme then I would predominantly use the same quotes and analysis but altering the words slightly so as it answers the question. If the question is on something else then I would start from scratch and think how I can that answer. It doesn't mean you couldn't use some similar quotes or analysis but you should be flexible. Remember it is all about answering the question.

Thanks, I will keep this in mind

Reply 64

NinetyOne

OP

What books are you guys doing? We're doing Sunset Song and Macbeth. Has anyone compiled some good quotes yet?

Reply 65

greenladybird

8

Original post by NinetyOne

What books are you guys doing? We're doing Sunset Song and Macbeth. Has anyone compiled some good quotes yet?

For prose, we're doing Gatsby :biggrin:

and for drama we're doing A Streetcar Named Desire, which we're starting next week.

Reply 66

Claire__

1

Original post by NinetyOne

What books are you guys doing? We're doing Sunset Song and Macbeth. Has anyone compiled some good quotes yet?

I'm doing The Cone Gatherers and Hamlet.

We did Macbeth for Int 2 though.

Reply 67

Bromaldehyde

10

1984 and Macbeth...

Macbeth makes me want to commit

Reply 68

Claire__

1

^^ Macbeth's quite easy to write about though compared to some of the other shakespeare stuff because like any essay to do with Macbeth as a character is ambition

just be glad you're not doing macbeth AND the cone gatherers; i've never read a worse book in my life

Reply 69

jackamakka

2

Othello is really becoming the bane of my life. I don't really know how to analyse Shakespeare effectively (as shown in S3 when I failed or came close to failing every Macbeth essay). This just worries me because I have no choice about using Othello for my prelim as by then it'll be the only text we studied that's not a play. Aaaah :frown:

Reply 70

GeschichteJunge

9

We are doing
The Great Gatsby
The Crucible

Anyone...
How can you improve your textual analysis for future nabs? Someone help as I think I've f*cked my recent nab up :'(

SOS

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Reply 71

littlemisspanic

My class is doing the great gatsby and the glass menagerie

Have just finished the glass menagerie, anyone else doing it? What are your thoughts?

Personally im so glad we're done! I thought it was one of the most boring plays ever!!

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Reply 72

Quick-use

20

Aw Higher English, how I've missed you so. :smile:

Hope you guys are doing well and keeping on top of things - Higher English will be but a distant memory sooner than you think.

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Reply 73

lala4

I sat int 2 last year and have the same teacher for higher... we are doing some of the same texts but i dont think she is a good teacher. We are doing strange texts which nobody has heard of haha and i think we are doing too many:

. The Iolaire- poetry
. Digging- poetry
. Shooting an Elephant- non fiction prose
. The Crucible- drama
. The Changeling- prose

Should i just focus on 2/3 texts to keep the load down?

Reply 74

Quick-use

20

Original post by lala4

I sat int 2 last year and have the same teacher for higher... we are doing some of the same texts but i dont think she is a good teacher. We are doing strange texts which nobody has heard of haha and i think we are doing too many:

. The Iolaire- poetry
. Digging- poetry
. Shooting an Elephant- non fiction prose
. The Crucible- drama
. The Changeling- prose

Should i just focus on 2/3 texts to keep the load down?

I would recommend that. Choose the ones that you feel most comfortable with and the ones you know/understand the most. :smile:

Reply 75

Memetics

8

Original post by NinetyOne

What books are you guys doing? We're doing Sunset Song and Macbeth. Has anyone compiled some good quotes yet?

The Bell Jar by Slyvia Plath, and the we're going to do The Crucible

Reply 76

Y2J97

13

Original post by greenladybird

For prose, we're doing Gatsby :biggrin:

and for drama we're doing A Streetcar Named Desire, which we're starting next week.

My class are doing these as well! Already completed Streetcar (fantastic play) and we're about half way through Gatsby.

Reply 77

greenladybird

8

Original post by Y2J97

My class are doing these as well! Already completed Streetcar (fantastic play) and we're about half way through Gatsby.

Yay!
We're the opposite, we did Gatsby first and we're starting Streetcar in the next few days I think :smile:

Reply 78

GoldenOne

1

Higher English is one of my favourite subjects right now! I wasn't expecting that in the slightest! My class has done a non-fiction, 'Letter to Daniel', and we finished 'Romeo and Juliet' a few weeks ago. We're starting 'The Devil's Wife' poem this week and we'll be doing 'The Great Gatsby' after Christmas if things go to plan. Our teacher wants our first drafts of the discursive/persuasive essay before Christmas and we've done our personal essays. We did our textual analysis NAB a couple of weeks ago too and I got 23/30 but quite a few people in the class failed so we'll probably be doing some kind of revision on that soon. Did our second timed essay last Friday but my first one didn't go very well (13/25) so I'm not predicting any great improvement for this one. How's everyone else getting to grips with timed essays? Any advice to make it easier? I struggle with time constraints so I get the feeling the essays are going to be what holds me back :smile:

Reply 79

GeschichteJunge

9

Can someone give me am example of an answer to an analysis question
I.e. Quote, technique, connotation, denotation & writers purpose

Because every time I do one I seem to do pretty crappy :frown:

I need to improve my textual analysis!
Thanks

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