Leaving Certificate English course
Course Contents
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Please note the content shown below is 2026 syllabus. This course is also available for 2027 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 and 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 Macbeth
- Imagery in Macbeth
- The characters
- Unseen poem and poetry check list
- Guidelines for answering the unseen poem
- The prescribed poems
- Emily Dickinson - I felt a Funeral, in my brain, I heard a Fly buzz – when I died
- Elizabeth Bishop - Filling Station, The Prodigal
- John Donne - The Flea, Song (Go and Catch a Falling Star),
- Patrick Kavanagh - Shancoduff, A Christmas Childhood
- Derek Mahon - Grandfather, After the Titanic, Antarctica
- Adrienne Rich - Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers, Uncle Speaks in the Drawing Room,
- William B. Yeats - The Lake of Inisfree, The Wild Swans at Coole, An Irish Airman Foresees his Death
- Paula Meehan - Buying Winkles, Hearth Lesson, Prayer for the Children of Longing
- Introduction to the comparative study
- Keeping a personal comparative journal
- Introduction to the play
- Act I, II, III and IV
- 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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Private Tutor: Yes
Duration: 6 to 24 Months
Price: €395 €296
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