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[elvenpiratelady]

I'm so glad the IB oral commentaries are over - over for those who did them today at least, the people on wednesday still have theirs to go. I'm very, very glad that I wasn't on wednesday.

For the non-IBs, Oral commentaries go like thus:

1. Pick three texts (in our case, Macbeth, Jane Eyre and Sylvia Plath poems)

2. Study the three texts over the course of a term.

3. Pick passages/poems from the texts.

4. Students study these passages for main concerns, imagery patterns, how it relates to the text as a whole, etc, etc. We ended up with seven passages, but here's the catch - you don't know which passage you'll actually be talking about until you open the envelope you pick on the day. You then get twenty minutes to annotate/plan/prepare, and then you speak an oral that should go for twelve minutes. And then the teacher asks you questions for a further three minutes.

Erk.

Anyway, I don't think mine went too badly. I got Tulips by Sylvia Plath, which is hard in that there's so much to analyse. I eventually went for tone and imagery patterns, although I was a bit thrown by the question at the end about rhythm in the poem, seeing as I hadn't looked at that at all... *sheepish*

But it's over now, and in the meantime I've got a lovely shiny Doctor icon. *points* And I hope that a new layout will follow soon.

Onwards to Death of a Salesman, and then to exams!

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[elvenpiratelady.livejournal.com]

Oh... we weren't meant to know in advance? Because they came right out and told us. *shrug* Oh well, we've done the commentaries and I refuse to do another.

Dammit, I wanted Macdeath! We studied Raven and Banners, and I really wanted banners, although I wouldn't have minded 'sleep no more' (even though that wasn't one of the passages...)

Is Salesman really horrible? I can't think that it can be any worse than Madame Bovary...

[(Anonymous)]

I think that's what we were told regarding the IBO's rules...but the teachers have been telling people since the dawn of time, so I don't think it's a rule anyone really follows =P

Oh, we didn't do Madame Bovary...so I couldn't compare. I think it was just me that really hated it, a few of my friends quite liked it, so you never know! You may enjoy it :D

[breo-saighit.livejournal.com]

What do you MEAN I wasn't logged in! Gah eljay.

[elvenpiratelady.livejournal.com]

I did skim read it in the summer holidays, and it just seems really boring, especially compared with Streetcar. But of course Salesman doesn't have Stanley in it, so eh.

[breo-saighit.livejournal.com]

And there's probably very little chance Marlon Brando would have played the character of Willy Loman. And taken his shirt off.

*heaves huge sigh*

How did such a spunkylicious young man turn into such a fat old man? What a waste!