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Date Set:29th Aug Date Due: 30th Aug

Details: 1. Answer the two short questions on Durcan's 'The Difficulty that is Marriage'. 2. Learn the highlighted quotes from both poems covered this week. There will be a quote test on Monday.

Date Set: 30th August Date Due: 2nd Sept

Details: 2019 Comprehension Question A - Answer in full (parts i, ii and iii) Remember, all work must be on foolscap pages, neatly labelled and stapled. No work which is poorly presented will be accepted. If you do not have a copy of the exam papers, get them over the weekend. There will be a quote test on Durcan’s ‘The Difficulty That Is Marriage’ on Monday.

Date Set: 2nd Sept Date Due: 3rd Sept

Details: 1. Learn the highlighted quotes from Durcan's 'Sport'. There will be a quote test on this and 'The Difficulty That Is Marriage' later this week. You can find the highlighted quotes for both poems on this website. 2. Note: This is a Comprehension Question B style task. It is worth 50 marks and is an opportunity to practise your Paper 1 skills while exploring a prescribed poem. Imagine you are the young man in this poem. Write the text of two diary entries you would make, one before and one after the match described in the poem. Your diary entries should make close reference to the events in the poem and express your thoughts and feelings after the match.


Date Set: 4th September Date Due: 5th September

Details: Learn the highlighted quotes from Durcan’s ‘Parents’. They are on the prescribed poetry section of this website.

Date Set: 4th September Date Due: 5th September

Details: Learn the highlighted quotes from Durcan’s ‘Windfall’. There will be a test tomorrow on the four Durcan poems we have done to date: The Difficulty That Is Marriage, Sport, Parents and Wife Who Smashed Television Gets Jail. Bring in exam papers tomorrow.

Date Set:6th Sept Date Due: 9th Sept

Details: LC HL Exam - 2019 - Text 1 - Comprehension Question B

Date Set: 9th September Date Due: 10th September Details:Learn all the highlighted quotes from Windfall. There will be a test on this and the other four Durcan poems at some stage this week

Date Set:11th September Date Due: 12th September

Details: 1. Revise all notes and quotes on the six Durcan poems we have covered to date as we will be preparing and writing a full LC Durcan essay in the coming days. 2. There will be a test on the themes and quotes of all six Durcan poems on Friday.

Date Set: 12th September Date Due: 13th December

Details: Using the slideshows on this website, revise the main themes and poetic techniques in Durcan's poetry.

Date Set: 16th September Date Due: 17th September

Details: Write a detailed plan for the Durcan essay question we discussed in class today.

Date Set: 18th September Date Due: 23rd Sept

Details: Continue working on your complete Paul Durcan essay.

Date Set: 19th September Date Due:23rd September

Details: You have two full assignments to hand up on Monday (both were set some time ago so if you have left them until now to complete, the fault is your own!) 1. 2019 Composition 2. Paul Durcan essay. For those students who were absent, Thursday and Friday's lessons were spent discussing answering the 2019 Text 2 Comprehension Question A in class. All students are expected to catch up on any work they have missed.