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Part 1: Works in Translation
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The Reflective Statement
Sample Reflective Statements
The Outsider
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Existentialism and Absurdism
Albert Camus - biog.
Overview
Class Handouts
Part 2: Oral Commentary
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Macbeth
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Macbeth - overview
Banquo
Despair and defiance
Macbeth's Character
Lady Macbeth's Soliloquy
Yeats
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Early Phase Poems
Greatest Poems
Yeats' Last Poem
Poetic Devices
Fitzgerald
Part 3: Genre - Drama
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Stagecraft elements
Philadelphia, Here I Come!
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Post-colonial criticism
Philadelphia, Here I Come!
Naturalism and Expressionism
Katie Doogan Recalled
Madge and S.B.
Miller
Written Exams
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Paper 1 Criteria
Poetic Devices
The Written Commentary
5IB
Course Overview
Part 1: Works in Translation
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The Reflective Statement
Sample Reflective Statements
The Outsider
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Albert Camus - Biog.
Part 2: Detailed Study
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Macbeth - overview
Fifth Year
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Exam Technique
English Leaving Cert. Course 2014
Composing
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The Essay
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Narration
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Tips
The Narrative Essay
Similes to avoid
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Question B
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The Catcher in the Rye
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Phoebe Caulfield
'Catcher' Motif
Poetry
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Poetic Devices
Modernism
Sample Poetry Answer - Keats
Plath
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Plath - Biography
Sylvia Plath - Overview
'Morning Song'
Nicholas Hughes - Times Article
Third Year
Functional Writing
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Letter
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Radio Talk
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Report
Review
Memo
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Reading and Writing
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Reading Comprehension
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Book Review List
Of Mice and Men
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Themes
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Wanted Poster
The Short Story
Media Studies
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Advertising
Newspapers
Vocabulary Building
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Third Year Classics
Pompeii
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Pliny's Account
Excavation
Streets and Water
Houses
Childhood & Education
Typical Day in Ancient Rome
The Iliad
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Iliad summary
Characters
The Roman Army
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Artillery
Daily Life
Uniform and Weapons
Camps and Forts
Roman Army - revision
The Athenian Acropolis
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Panathenaic Festival
Construction
Refinements
The Elgin Marbles
Lesser Buildings of the Acropolis
The Last Days of Socrates
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Socrates
Plato's Apology
Reasons for Socrates' unpopularity
The Truth about Classical Studies
Second Year
Junior Cert. Course
Book Review Format
Poetry
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Poetic Devices
Of Mice and Men
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Context
Themes
Characters
Symbols
Wanted Poster
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