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  1. winicat

    discussion of conventions

    ok, that would totally make more sense if it was anything but the cid, but i do get what you mean though.
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    discussion of conventions

    if we're not supposed to just list the conventions of the genre, how are we meant to discuss them? are we, like, meant to just slip them in places (eg. As with most tragedies, the hero in RT is usually a male. The character Medea challenges this convention.) OR do we state a convention and then...
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    Revenge tragedy website

    someone posted a website address in here ages ago to some RT site that had, like, everything on all the texts, genre, etc. in it. question: does anyone know what that website is?! i lost my bookmark to it and i just wanted to see what stuff it had that i didn't.
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    Studying 4 ee1?where to start?

    developed my own definitions of genre and revenge tragedy (my elective, duh), looked at conventions, etc. and made sure i could list the ones i knew i could talk about without looking at my notes. a friend gave me her copy of " success in HSC extension english one REVENGE TRAGEDY" which is...
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    so how many weetbix do you eat!!:)

    dude! you had jellybeans?! man... whoever keeps checking my stuff said i wasn't allowed lollies in there!!! ug... it would've been so much more fun being hyper -- hello, english paper 2, world's most boring exam!!!
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    Official Thread of the MHS Mafia

    poppies poppies poppies poppies! umm... moonie is a nerd and won't share her puppy! duckie is a duck and goes quack! moonie, can i borrow some of your nerdiness???
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    Genre

    some notes on genre our teacher got from some thing with marilyn pretorius: understand the notion of genre as a fluid concept genre can be adapted to different times and cultures, and the attitudes and vales reflected by these adaptations genre texts are often hybrids - thriller romance...
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    Genre

    some notes on genre our teacher got from some thing with marilyn pretorius: understand the notion of genre as a fluid concept genre can be adapted to different times and cultures, and the attitudes and vales reflected by these adaptations genre texts are often hybrids - thriller romance...
  9. winicat

    The 2004 HSC - (Advanced) English Paper 2

    it was okay. i left, like, 25 minutes early thoughcause i got really bored and couldn't be bothered doing anymore lol i went so crap and it was so easy *groan* meh, i don't care. oh, and whoever said 2 essays and speech was good, we were soooo lucky! usually they've done 3 text types. we were...
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    just wanted to know...

    does anyone know when our stuff is being marked and when we can get them back? my teacher was really vague and said they were getting marked around exam time.
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    idiosyncracies of skool uniform

    our school changd uniforms whe we were in about year 9 so we went from girls with white shirts and a-line pale blue skirts to seniors: white shirts, dark blue navy, pleated skirts and juniors: same except blue shirts. senior guys: white shirts, grey shorts. junior guys: blue shirts, navy shorts...
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    Choice of Wordsworth

    and don't any of you forget your pretty little poppy scene because the poppy scene is all important, the most important, DON'T FORGET IT!!! *breathe...*
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    Trials

    I just did my trial paper today. My careers advisor gave me the tip of going to all classes before an exam to find out what the test is on (cause teachers tell you subconciously) and it actually worked. Our teacher had been revising modernisation and globalisation with us and they were the first...
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    How many words?

    they all go "oh, we didn't give you enough assessments earlier in teh year and we can't give them to you after your trials so just have a week of them!" yay! thankyou! *groan*
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    Reflection Statements

    we had to hand in a draft of our reflection statement as part of our second viva voce so mine's finished (as far as i'm concerned :P) it's about 1600 words so i might cut it down a bit, depending on the length of my essay.
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    How many words?

    i think i have between 2 and 3 thousand words but 1585 for reflection. relfection was way easier to write lol who else is going to be spending their entire holidays doing school work? i have *counts* four assessments first week back, trials weeks 4 and 5, and three majors by week 7. YAY!!!!!
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    Equity and Difference assessment

    i'm doing an assessment on equity and idfference looking at low socio-economic groups. we have to do a focus on one government or community group inniative to try and combat inequality in this area. i'm doing ABSTUDY but we have a 10 year time span and i'm not sure when ABSTUDY was "created"...
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    drafts, vivas, I DUNNO!!!

    no! no offense taken!!! it was very good advice!!!!!!! (sorry, got excited there...) our teacher is basically useless so any help/advice i get is good lol in telling me to narrow my idea it was good cause now i'm heaps focused and able to write lots. before i was just so unfocused that i couldnt...
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    drafts, vivas, I DUNNO!!!

    yay for me! last weekend i wrote 2000 words of my essay and 1500 for my reflection statement. whoever told me i was stupid and my idea was way too broad got a reference to them in my reflection :) yay them!!! i had my second viva today and OMG i just couldn't think of anything to say! i mean...
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    What's your critical response about?

    i don't know if i really got across what i meant. i was trying to say that i was just going to look in-depth at 'so much to tell you', 'take my word for it', 'checkers' and 'winter' but then just say that these aren't the only ones blah blah blah this technique is also seen in this book blah...
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