English

Exam Structure

• Breakdown of Marks
• Marking Criteria
• Modes of Comparison (2023)

  Paper 1

  Composition

• Steps to Write a Diary Entry
• Essay Structure
• The 6 Styles of Language (Different Writing Styles in Leaving Cert English)
• Debate Speech Layout (Slides)

  Letters

• Layout of a Formal Letter
• Layout of a Informal Letter
• Open Letter

  Paper 2

• Paper 2 Revision Booklet
• Essay Formatting for Paper 2

  Texts

  Casablanca

• Full Movie

  A Doll’s House

• Full Play
• Study Guide - Study Guide (from Teacher) (Including Questions)
  • Characters
  • Themes
  • Symbolism
  • Quotes
• Act Summaries

Full Movie Version - Warning: The exam will be on the book, not the movie

Full Movie

Room

• Full Book
• Cultural Context
• Study Guide - Study Guide (from Teacher) (Including Questions)
• Key Moments
• Relationships in Room

Full Movie Version - Warning: The exam will be on the book, not the movie

• Amazon Prime
• Apple TV

Macbeth

• Full Play with Modern Translation
• Full Play
• Summary
• Gaiety School of Acting - Student Workbook
• Intro to Macbeth 1
• Intro to Macbeth 2
• Characters
  • Lady Macbeth Quotes
• Character Analysis
• Character Profiles
• Dramatic Techniques
• Macbeth LitCharts Notes
• Key Quotes and Important Shakespearean Elements of a Tragedy
• Revision Booklet
• Knowledge Organiser

Poetry

• Poems Cheatsheet

  Adrienne Rich

• From a Survivor
• Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers - Slides
• The Uncle Speaks in the Drawing Room
• Our Whole Life
• Trying to Talk with a Man
• Storm Warnings

  Paula Meehan

• Hearth Lesson
• Praying for the Children of Longing
• Buying Winkles
• The Exact Moment I Became a Poet
• Them Ducks Died for Ireland
• Death of a Field

  Derek Mahon

• Grandfather
• Day Trip in Donegal
• The Chinese Restaurant in Portrush
• Antartica
• As It Should Be
• Kinsale

  Elizabeth Bishop - More Slides

• The Fish
• Prodigal
• Sestina
• The Armadillo

  William Butler Yeats (W.B. Yeats)

• The Lake Isle of Innisfree
• The Wild Swans at Coole
• Sailing to Byzantium
• An Irish Airman Foresees his Death
• Swift’s Epitaph
• The Stare’s Nest By My Window (From Meditations In Time Of Civil War, VI)

  Rudyard Kipling

• If

Comparative - Notes - Video

General Vision and Viewpoint - Video

• A Doll’s House
• Room
• Casablanca
• Comparative Study

  Theme or Issue

  Theme of Identity

• A Doll’s House
• Room
• Casablanca
• Comparative Study

  Theme of Control and Violence

• Room

  Example Questions and Sample Essays

• Adrienne Rick Poetry Question
• Control and Violence: Theme or Issue Question
• Entertaining Exploration of Theme or Issue Question
• Key Moments Question
• Exploration of Theme is Emotionally Engaging Question
• A Doll’s House - Theme Satisfaction Question
• General Vision and Viewpoint - Comparative Study - Macbeth and A Doll’s House
• General Vision and Viewpoint - Comparative Study - Macbeth and Room
• Literary Genre - Comparative Study - Macbeth and A Doll’s House
• Literary Genre - Comparative Study - Macbeth and Room
• Theme or Issue: Conflict - Comparative Study - Macbeth and A Doll’s House
• Theme or Issue: Isolation - Comparative Study - Macbeth and Room

  Other Resources

• Thug Notes - Videos about Literature/Texts told by a “Gangster”
• Aoife’s Notes - Website with Notes