Leaving Certificate English course

Course Contents

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Ordinary Level

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Unit 1: Comprehending & composing

Unit 2: Comprehending & composing

Unit 3: Comprehending & composing

Unit 4: Single text study - Macbeth - Part I

Unit 5: Single text study - Macbeth - Part II

Unit 6: Single text study - Macbeth - Part III

Unit 7: Poetry: unseen & prescribed poetry - E. Bishop, E. Dickinson

Unit 8: Poetry - A.Rich, W.B.Yeats, D.Mahon

Unit 9: Poetry - J.Donne, P.Kavanagh, P. Meehan

Unit 10: Comparative study - Philadelphia Here I Come by Brian Frie

Unit 11: Comparative study - Silas Marner by George Eliot

Unit 12: Comparative study - Trading Places directed by John Landis

Unit 13: Final Test Ordinary Level - Preparation for Leaving Certificate Exam

Detailed Content

Unit 1: Comprehending & composing

Categories of language
Reading with understanding
Answering question A on Paper 1

Unit 2: Comprehending & composing

Answering question B on Paper 1
Composing know how

Unit 3: Comprehending & composing

Guidelines for effective writing
Writing a composition

Unit 4: Single text study - Macbeth - Part I

How to study the play
Act I and II scene by scene commentaries and revision
Important quotations from the play
Self-directed exercises

Unit 5: Single text study - Macbeth - Part II

Act III an IV scene by scene commentaries and revision
Important quotations
Self-directed exercises

Unit 6: Single text study - Macbeth - Part III

Act V scene by scene commentaries and revision
Important quotations
Self-directed exercises
The themes in Othello
Imagery in Othello
The characters

Unit 7: Poetry: unseen & prescribed poetry - E. Bishop, E. Dickinson

Unseen poem and poetry check list
Guidelines for answering the unseen poem
The prescribed poems
Elizabeth Bishop - The Fish, Filling Station, The Prodigal
Emily Dickinson - I felt a funeral, in my brain, I heard a fly buzz - when I died

Unit 8: Poetry - A.Rich, W.B.Yeats, D.Mahon

Adrienne Rich - Aunt Jennifer's Tigers, Uncle Speaks in the Drawing Room
William Wordsworth - It is beauteous evening calm and free, She dwelt among the untrodden ways, From the Preludes: Skating
Sylvia Plath - Child, Poppies in July

Unit 9: Poetry - J.Donne, P.Kavanagh, P. Meehan