Leaving Certificate English course
Course Contents
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Please note the content shown below is 2025 syllabus. This course is also available for 2026 syllabus. Please contact college for details.
Higher Level
Detailed Content
- Categories of language
- Reading with understanding
- Answering question A on Paper 1
- Answering question B on Paper 1
- Composing know how
- Guidelines for effective writing
- Writing a composition
- How to study the play
- Act I and II scene by scene commentaries and revision
- Important quotations from the play
- Self-directed exercises
- Act III an IV scene by scene commentaries and revision
- Important quotations
- Self-directed exercises
- Act V scene by scene commentaries and revision
- Important quotations
- Self-directed exercises
- The themes in Othello
- Imagery in Othello
- The characters
- Unseen poem and poetry check list
- Guidelines for answering the unseen poem
- The prescribed poems
- Eavan Boland - Child of Our time, This Moment, Love
- Patrick Kavanagh - Shancoduff, A Christmas Childhood, On Raglan Road
- Gerald Manley Hopkins - Inversnaid, Spring
- Emily Dickinson - I felt a Funeral, in my brain, I heard a Fly buzz – when I died
- T.S Eliot - Preludes, Aunt Helen
- Derek Mahon - Grandfather, After the Titanic, Antartica
- Sylvia Plath - Child, Poppies on July
- Tracy K.Smith - It's Not, The Greatest Personal Privation, The Searchers
- Introduction to the comparative study
- Keeping a personal comparative journal
- Philadelphia Here I Come
- Act I and Act II
- Key moments
- Notes on the comparative modes
- Introduction to the novel..
- Chapter summaries
- Key moments
- Notes on the comparative modes
- Introduction to the film
- Sequence summaries
- Key moments
- Notes on the comparative study
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Delivery Method:
1. Correspondence
Private Tutor: Yes
Duration: 6 to 24 Months
Price: €395 €296
Free Prospectus
Request your free Kilroy's College prospectus here.
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