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byslantedlightThursday - a rather dramatic (and slightly apocalyptic, if you ask me *g*) sunrise (well, morning *g*) and late summer thistles.
And then today - the deliciousness of rain from a warm sky, and angel clouds, and lovely buffeting wind.<
It's been a funny few days, mind - Job 1, and then in the midst of thinking about the upcoming Job 2.5, a surprise recurrence of Job 2, so that I wasn't entirely sure what was going on, but it got sorted in the end. Had a haircut, and am all short again, though I'd half thought I wouldn't be. Excellent books, the kind that make you feel like you're in the wrong world. Chat for a new volunteer gig, though it'll take ages to kick off. Landlord reckons he's going to fix my shed roof, which would be fab, and help keep me here a bit longer, odd as that might sound...
And the best thing - it's Friday night. Friday night, and I have books, and there's a new Fleabag to watch, and I still have the last Game of Thrones from series five too - maybe tomorrow. And there is apparently going to be gorgeous wrack and storm (and I have moved Tall Sunflower down to be beside Lower Sunnflowers, just in case). Come wind... *g*
Oh - and I had a Reading Idea this morning. Come term time, I'm going to go back mumblety-mumble years, and re-read the books we read in English, way back in high school, cos I do still have them, and I don't think I've read them since. And I really don't think it's a school booklist the like of which has been seen here for many years... *g*
How're you do-in'...? *g*
And then today - the deliciousness of rain from a warm sky, and angel clouds, and lovely buffeting wind.
And the best thing - it's Friday night. Friday night, and I have books, and there's a new Fleabag to watch, and I still have the last Game of Thrones from series five too - maybe tomorrow. And there is apparently going to be gorgeous wrack and storm (and I have moved Tall Sunflower down to be beside Lower Sunnflowers, just in case). Come wind... *g*
Oh - and I had a Reading Idea this morning. Come term time, I'm going to go back mumblety-mumble years, and re-read the books we read in English, way back in high school, cos I do still have them, and I don't think I've read them since. And I really don't think it's a school booklist the like of which has been seen here for many years... *g*
How're you do-in'...? *g*
Re: Reading Idea
Date: Friday, 19 August 2016 10:01 pm (UTC)Now, that is one fabby Reading Idea *g*
With the A Level results out this week and Goddaughter's grades eagerly anticipated (A* for Textiles, which was the only one that mattered - has a place at Birmingham - "Well Done C!"), this got me thinking of, oh so many Jurassic Periods ago, the books I read for A level English. And wondered if I still had any them, possibly to re-read, myself...
I quickly recalled all but one:
Poetry: Selected Poems of TS Eliot (including The Wasteland, Prufrock...); The Nun's Priest's Tale (from Canterbury Tales) - Geoffrey Chaucer; The Metaphysical Poets - a collection including Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, Andrew Marvell...
Plays: King Lear and The Tempest - William Shakespeare; The Wild Duck - Henrick Ibsen (the first year a play-translated-into-English had been studied in England at A level...)
Novels: Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens; Emma - Jane Austen; and... and...
Nope, cannot for the life of me remember the third novel and it's not on the bookshelf.
But they can't have all been bad, as every other tome is! *G*
Happy re-reading! Will look out for what your titles are/were, and how you feel about them now, vs. back then.
R
RE: Re: Reading Idea
Date: Sunday, 21 August 2016 08:19 pm (UTC)And gosh - what a very different reading list yours is from mine (also Jurassic Periods ago, and of course Across Oceans *g*) Although we did include poems by Donne and Marvell - and of course a Shakespeare play, though not either of yours. *g* I suspect I'm conflating some of my Year 11 (and maybe even Year 10) books with my HSC ones, but it would be interesting to read them again too anyway.
Aha! Have dug into my trunk/coffee table and found the 1984 HSC general syllabus thingie (for all subjects though, not just English - that's perhaps a bit deeper down than I have the energy to excavate just now. but this is what it looks like so far:
English (3 parts for the exam)
- a "single text" (two to be studied) I rather think these were The Long Prospect by Elizabeth Harrower and... something else. The Grapes of Wrath, maybe? Or was that Year 11? Hmmn...
- Thematic study - four core books and supplementary reading around the theme - ("Confronting the Future"). I remember Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, and 1984 by George Orwell (cos it was *g*) and two non-fiction books, Confronting the Future by Charles Birch and Sleepers, Wake! by Barry Jones.
- general essay (two short pieces of writing in the exam).
Also a Writing Workshop folio - minimum six pieces of writing.
English Lit (3 parts to exam again)
- twelve set poems
- Shakespeare (Macbeth
- Other literature - a novel (The Leopard by Guiseppe de Lampedusa) and a play (Electra)
Also a Project/Theme - "Women in Fiction and Contemporary Society":
- two novels (Monkey Grip by Helen Garner and The Millstone by Margaret Drabble
- examination of how women are portrayed in society, particularly through the media
(Assessment - a taped interview, a taped character study, essay comparing women in literature and in contemporary society, essay comparing the presentation of women in two pieces of literature, class participation/involvement).
Hmmn, very interesting, now I've fished this out!