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posted by [personal profile] muninnhuginn at 09:45am on 06/10/2007
I think, if I remember correctly, I covered the following for "The Search for Glory":
Wilfred Owen's Poems
William Gibson, The Spire
Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Joseph Heller, Catch 22

Also another long essay on the Sirens chapter of Joyce's Ulysses. Plus the essay on Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man. And the collection of essays on Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney and Thom Gunn (I saved Larkin for university).

After an A-level like that, life poses few challenges--and I avoid climbing cathedral spires.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 09:54am on 06/10/2007
Wow. There's no way I could have done that as a teenager.
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posted by [personal profile] muninnhuginn at 10:04am on 06/10/2007
The amazing thing was that P, the head of English, taught this to mixed-ability groups--and also adult students (my mother included, she did Love and Self Love and piles of Austen)--and got many people through it. It probably did change people's lives.

The thematic extended essay--at 5000+ words (I think officially 3-5k, so I did 7-8k), completed in the lower sixth--was probably the most challenging piece of work I've ever done.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 01:38pm on 06/10/2007
Wow, again. I might like to try A'Level English (in my copious spare time) with a good teacher; I've spoken before about my frustration with school English where I had trouble grokking a lot of the things (characters, motivation, style) they seemed to assume should come naturally.
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