CONGRATULATIONS TO MR JOHN SHEIL ON THE PUBLICATION OF HIS NEW BOOK 'LANGUAGE IN FOCUS – A GUIDE TO COMPREHENDING AND COMPOSING'.

PUBLISHED BY FALLONS, THE BOOK PREPARES THE READER FOR THE LEAVING CERTIFICATE HIGHER LEVEL ENGLISH, PAPER 1.

WE WISH BOTH MR SHEIL, AND THE PUPILS WHO USE IT, EVERY SUCCESS.

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THE IRISH TIMES
School ‘Mag’ Competition

CONGRATULATIONS TO JAMES SEMPLE (EDITOR) AND HIS TEAM FROM MS NULTY'S 38 ENGLISH CLASS ON THE SHORT-LISTING OF THEIR MAGAZINE 'BLAZE' FOR THE SCHOOL MAG OF THE YEAR AWARD. 5 SCHOOLS HAVE BEEN SHORT-LISTED.

IAN KENNY'S ARTICLE ON 'MY TOP FIVE FAVOURITE FOODS' WON AN AWARD FOR CREATIVE WRITING ACHIEVEMENT.

THE AWARDS CEREMONY WILL TAKE PLACE ON MAY 9TH.

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Irish Times SchoolMag Competition to Launch in January 2005
30/11/2004
New Second Level Competition to bring students into the world of media publishing



Media education has become and integral part of the second level curriculum. Questions about advertising, journalistic writing and image analysis come up on the Leaving Certificate English paper every year without fail. Educators realise that a student with an insight into the working of the media is better able to decode the messages that come at him from TV, radio and press every day. The media savvy consumer is empowered in every aspect of his or her life from body image to voting.

The new Irish Times SchoolMag competition invites students to become media producers themselves. This new competition gives secondary school students the opportunity to study what goes into making a magazine and to learn about the process of newsmaking, editorial responsibility, concise writing and using images. The competition has been conceived by Real Event Solutions, the school events company responsible for the popular Coca Cola Form and Fusion Awards.

The SchoolMag Competition will be launched in January 2005 with an Irish Times supplement covering different aspects of creating a magazine (design and layout, research methods, journalistic skills, editing, feature writing, etc.) Teachers will also contribute to the supplement, with their advice on using the SchoolMag competition as an interdisciplinary module for TY or a class project in any discipline. Any type of magazine can be part of the competition and it can therefore be anchored in any subject area; English, Art, History, Science, etc.

Each fortnight through February and March, Transition Times will track the progress of St Vincent’s School in Dundalk, as they prepare their magazine for the competition. Offering additional information and tips, the pieces will be especially useful as a resource tool for teachers of media studies and design.

Each of the magazine entries will be studied carefully by a panel of judges from the Irish Times. Prizes will be awarded for the best magazines in the junior and senior cycle categories, but there will also be awards for individuals from other schools who have displayed outstanding writing, editing or design skills.

Prizes will be awarded to both the junior and the senior sections of the school. In each section there will be five writing categories (e.g. best film review, social commentary, etc.) and three artistic categories (e.g. best cover, cartoon, etc.) A special supplement will be published in The Irish Times in May showcasing the winning magazines (Junior and Senior), the category winners, along with highlights from a selection of other magazines entered. The winning teams will receive their prizes at a prestigious awards day in Dublin in May 2005 attended by students, family, and the press.

The competition is open to second level students from 1st to 6th year. The deadline for entries is 18 March 2005. All entries should be sent to Real Event Solutions, 54 Ballyhooley Rd, St Luke’s Cross, Cork.

Contact Real Event Solutions, info@real-event.ie, or telephone 021 4550434, for further information

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Leaving Certificate Examination, 2005

English

Here is the list of prescribed texts for the Leaving Certificate Examination, 2005

As the syllabus indicates, students are required to study from this list:

1.One text on its own from the following texts: -

BRONTË, Emily Wuthering Heights (H, O)
ELIOT, George Silas Marner (H, O)
LEONARD, Hugh Home Before Night (O)
MALOUF, David Fly Away Peter (O)
MC GAHERN, John Amongst Women (H, O)
O’CASEY, Sean Juno and the Paycock (O)
SHAKESPEARE, William Hamlet (H, O)
As You Like It (H, O)
STEINBECK, John Of Mice and Men (O)

•One of the texts marked with H, O may be studied on its own at Higher Level and at Ordinary Level.

•One of the texts marked with O may be studied on its own at Ordinary Level.


2.Three other texts in a comparative manner, according to the comparative modes prescribed for this course.

•Any texts from the list of texts prescribed for comparative study, other than the one already chosen for study on its own, may be selected for the comparative study.
•At Higher Level and at Ordinary Level, a film may be studied as one of the three texts in a comparative study.


3.The Comparative Modes for Examination in 2005 are:

Higher Level
(i) The General Vision and Viewpoint
(ii) Theme or Issue
(iii) Literary Genre


Ordinary Level
(i) Relationships
(ii) Theme
(iii) Social Setting

Texts prescribed for comparative study, for examination in the year 2005

ACHEBE, Chinua Things Fall Apart
ANGELOU, Maya I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
BALLARD, J.G. Empire of the Sun
BARKER, Pat Regeneration
BIELENBERG, Christabel The Past is Myself
BINCHY, Maeve Circle of Friends
BRANAGH, Kenneth (Dir.) Much Ado About Nothing (Film)
BRONTË, Charlotte Jane Eyre
BRONTË, Emily Wuthering Heights
CHANG, Jung Wild Swans
COSTNER, Kevin (Dir.) Dances With Wolves (Film)
ELIOT, George Silas Marner
FRIEL, Brian Dancing at Lughnasa
GORDIMER, Nadine The House Gun
HUSTON, John (Dir.) The Dead (Film)
IBSEN, Henrik A Doll’s House
KINGSOLVER, Barbara The Poisonwood Bible
LEONARD, Hugh Home Before Night
LURHMANN, Baz (Dir.) Strictly Ballroom (Film)
MADDEN, Deirdre One by One in the Darkness
MALOUF, David Fly Away Peter
MC GAHERN, John Amongst Women
MEHTA, Gita A River Sutra
MILLER, Arthur A View from the Bridge
MOORE, Brian The Statement
O’CASEY, Sean Juno and the Paycock
O’HANLON, Redmond Into The Heart Of Borneo
OZ, Amos Panther in the Basement
PROULX, E. Annie Heart Songs
RADFORD, Michael (Dir.) Il Postino (Film)
SHAKESPEARE, William As You Like It
Hamlet
SOPHOCLES Oedipus the King
SPARK, Muriel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
STEINBECK, John Of Mice and Men
SYNGE, J. M. The Playboy of the Western World
TYLER, Anne A Slipping-Down Life
TWAIN, Mark The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
WEIR, Peter (Dir.) Witness (Film)


4. Shakespearean Drama

At Higher Level a play by Shakespeare must be one of the texts chosen. This can be studied on its own or as an element in a comparative study.

At Ordinary Level the study of a play by Shakespeare is optional.

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5.Poetry

Higher Level

A selection from the poetry of eight poets is prescribed for Higher Level.

Students will be expected to have studied at least six poems by each poet.

Ordinary Level

A total of 39 poems is prescribed for Ordinary Level.

Poets Prescribed for Higher Level

BOLAND, Eavan

The War Horse
Child of Our Time
The Famine Road
The Shadow Doll
White Hawthorn in the West of Ireland
Outside History
The Black Lace Fan my Mother Gave Me
This Moment
The Pomegranate
Love

DICKINSON, Emily

“Hope” is the thing with feathers
There’s a certain Slant of light
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
A Bird came down the Walk
I Heard a fly buzz – when I died
The Soul has Bandaged moments
I could bring You Jewels – had I a mind to
A narrow Fellow in the Grass
I taste a liquor never brewed
After great pain, a formal feeling comes

ELIOT, Thomas S

The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock
Preludes
Aunt Helen
from The Waste Land II. A Game of Chess
Journey of the Magi
from Landscapes
III Usk
IV Rannoch, by Glencoe
from The Four Quartets East Coker IV

HEANEY, Seamus

Twice Shy
Valediction
The Forge
Bogland
The Tollund Man
Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication (1) Sunlight
A Constable Calls
The Skunk
The Harvest Bow
Field of Vision
Lightenings viii. (The annals say…)
St. Kevin and the Blackbird

KAVANAGH, Patrick

Inniskeen Road: July Evening
Shancoduff
from The Great Hunger Section I
Advent
A Christmas Childhood
Epic
Canal Bank Walk
Lines Written on a Seat on the Grand Canal
The Hospital
On Raglan Road

LONGLEY, Michael

Badger
Wounds
Poteen
Carrigskewaun
Wreaths
Last Requests
Mayo Monologues 3: Self-Heal
An Amish Rug
Laertes
Ceasefire

WORDSWORTH, William

To My Sister
A slumber did my spirit seal
She dwelt among the untrodden ways
Composed upon Westminster Bridge
It is a beauteous evening, calm and free
The Solitary Reaper
from The Prelude:
The Stolen Boat [ll 357-400]
Skating [ll 425-463]
Lines Composed… above Tintern Abbey

YEATS, William Butler

The Lake Isle of Innisfree
September 1913
The Wild Swans at Coole
An Irish Airman Foresees his Death
Easter 1916
The Second Coming
Sailing to Byzantium
from Meditations in Time of Civil War:
VI, The Stare’s Nest by My Window
In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz
Swift’s Epitaph
An Acre of Grass
from Under Ben Bulben: V and VI
Politics

Poetry Prescribed for Ordinary Level

ARMITAGE, Simon
It ain’t what you do

BOLAND, Eavan
Child of Our Time
This Moment

CANNON, Moya
Crow’s Nest

CARSON, Ciaran
Soot

COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor
from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Part IV

DICKINSON, Emily
“Hope” is the thing with feathers
A narrow Fellow in the Grass

ELIOT, Thomas S
Preludes
From Landscapes
IV Rannoch, by Glencoe

FANTHORPE, Ursula Askham
Growing Up

GRENNAN, Eamon
Daughter and Dying Fish

HEANEY, Seamus
A Constable Calls
The Skunk
Field of Vision

HERRICK, Robert
Upon Julia’s Clothes

JENNINGS, Elizabeth
One Flesh

KAVANAGH, Patrick
Shancoduff
A Christmas Childhood

KENNELLY, Brendan
Night Drive

KINSELLA, Thomas
Mirror in February

LAWRENCE, David Herbert
Piano

LEVERTOV, Denise
What Were They Like?

LONGLEY, Michael
Last Requests
An Amish Rug

MC GOUGH, Roger
Let Me Die a Youngman’s Death

MC NEICE, Louis
Autobiography

MILTON, John
When I consider how my light is spent

MUIR, Edwin
The Horses

OLDS, Sharon
The Present Moment

RUMENS, Carol
Passing a Statue of Our Lady in Derry

THOMAS, Dylan
Do not go gentle into that good night

WILLIAMS, William Carlos
The Red Wheelbarrow

WORDSWORTH, William
She dwelt among the untrodden ways
It is a beauteous evening, calm and free
from The Prelude
Skating [ll 425 – 463]

YEATS, William Butler
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
The Wild Swans at Coole
Swift’s Epitaph

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Leaving Certificate Examination, 2006

English

Herewith is the list of prescribed texts for the Leaving Certificate Examination, 2006

As the syllabus indicates, students are required to study from this list:

1.One text on its own from the following texts:

AUSTEN,Jane Pride and Prejudice (H, O)
JOHNSTON,Jennifer How Many Miles to Babylon? (O)
KINGSOLVER, Barbara The Poisonwood Bible (H, O)
LEE, Laurie A Moment of War (O)
MC CABE, Eugene Death and Nightingales (H, O)
O’CASEY, Sean Juno and the Paycock (O)
SHAKESPEARE, William As You Like It (H, O)
King Lear (H,O)
STEINBECK, John Of Mice and Men (O)

• One of the texts marked with H, O may be studied on its own at Higher Level and at Ordinary Level.

• One of the texts marked with O may be studied on its own at Ordinary Level.


2. Three other texts in a comparative manner, according to the comparative modes prescribed for this course.

• Any texts from the list of texts prescribed for comparative study, other than the one already chosen for study on its own, may be selected for the comparative study.
• At Higher Level and at Ordinary Level, a film may be studied as one of the three texts in a comparative study.

3. The Comparative Modes for Examination in 2006 are:

Higher Level
(i) Theme or Issue
(ii) The Cultural Context
(iii) Literary Genre


Ordinary Level
(i) Theme
(ii) Social Setting
(iii) Aspects of Story: tension or climax or resolution

4. Shakespearean Drama

At Higher Level a play by Shakespeare must be one of the texts chosen. This can be studied on its own or as an element in a comparative study.

At Ordinary Level the study of a play by Shakespeare is optional.

Texts prescribed for comparative study, for examination in the year 2006

ATWOOD, Margaret Cat’s Eye
AUSTEN, Jane Pride and Prejudice
BELL, Sam Hanna December Bride
BIELENBERG, Christabel The Past is Myself
BINCHY, Maeve Circle of Friends
BRANAGH, Kenneth (Dir.) Henry V (Film)
BRONTË, Charlotte Jane Eyre
CAREY, Peter True History of the Kelly Gang
CHEVALIER, Tracy Girl With a Pearl Earring
COSTNER, Kevin (Dir.) Dances With Wolves (Film)
CRUISE O’BRIEN, Kate The Homesick Garden
DICKENS, Charles Great Expectations
ELIOT, George Silas Marner
IBSEN, Henrik A Doll’s House
IVORY, James (Dir.) A Room With a View (Film)
JOHNSTON, Jennifer How Many Miles to Babylon?
Joyce, James Dubliners
KAZAN, Elia (Dir.) On the Waterfront (Film)
KEANE, John B Sive
KINGSOLVER, Barbara The Poisonwood Bible
LEE, Laurie A Moment of War
LIVELY, Penelope Moon Tiger
MADDEN, Deirdre One by One in the Darkness
MC CABE, Eugene Death and Nightingales
MILLER, Arthur A View from the Bridge
MOORE, Brian The Statement
NAIPAUL, V.S. An Area of Darkness
O’CASEY, Sean Juno and the Paycock
O’HANLON, Redmond Into The Heart Of Borneo
PROULX, E. Annie Heart Songs
RADFORD, Michael (Dir.) Il Postino (Film)
SHAKESPEARE, William As You Like It King Lear
Twelfth Night
SOPHOCLES Antigone
STEINBECK, John Of Mice and Men
TYLER, Anne A Slipping-Down Life
WEIR, Peter (Dir.) Witness (Film)

YOSHIMURA, Akira Shipwrecks

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5.Poetry

Higher Level:

A selection from the poetry of eight poets is prescribed for Higher Level.

Students will be expected to have studied at least six poems by each poet.

Ordinary Level:

A total of 35 poems is prescribed for Ordinary Level.

Poets prescribed for Higher Level

• BISHOP, Elizabeth
  The Fish
  The Bight
  At the Fishhouses
  The Prodigal
  Questions of Travel
  The Armadillo
  Sestina
  First Death in Nova Scotia
  Filling Station
  In the Waiting Room<?LI>
  
  
  
• DONNE, John
  The Sunne Rising
  Song: Go, and catch a falling star
  The Anniversarie
  Song: Sweetest love, I do not goe
  The Dreame (Deare love, for nothing less than thee…)
  A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
  The Flea
  Batter my heart
  At the round earth’s imagined corners
  Thou hast made me




• ELIOT, Thomas S
  The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock
  Preludes
  Aunt Helen
  from The Waste Land II. A Game of Chess
  Journey of the Magi
  from Landscapes
  III Usk
  IV Rannoch, by Glencoe
  from The Four Quartets East Coker IV<?LI>
  
  
• HARDY, Thomas
  Drummer Hodge
  The Darkling Thrush
  The Self-Unseeing
  Channel Firing
  The Convergence of the Twain
  Under the Waterfall
  The Oxen
  During Wind and Rain
  Afterwards
  When I Set Out for Lyonnesse




• HOPKINS, Gerard Manley
  God’s Grandeur
  Spring
  As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame
  The Windhover
  Pied Beauty
  Felix Randal
  Inversnaid
  I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day
  No worst there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief
  Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend




• LONGLEY, Michael
  Badger
  Wounds
  Poteen
  Carrigskewaun
  Wreaths
  Last Requests
  Mayo Monologues 3: Self-Heal
  An Amish Rug
  Laertes
  Ceasefire




• PLATH, Sylvia
  Black Rook in Rainy Weather
  The Times Are Tidy
  Morning Song
  Finisterre
  Mirror
  Pheasant
  Elm
  Poppies in July
  The Arrival of the Bee Box
  Child




• YEATS, William Butler
  The Lake Isle of Innisfree
  September 1913
  The Wild Swans at Coole
  An Irish Airman Foresees his Death
  Easter 1916
  The Second Coming
  Sailing to Byzantium
  from Meditations in Time of Civil War:
  VI, The Stare’s Nest by My Window
  In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz
  Swift’s Epitaph
  An Acre of Grass
  from Under Ben Bulben: V and VI
  Politics

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As the syllabus indicates, students are required to study from this list:

1.One text on its own from the following texts: -

AUSTEN, Jane Pride and Prejudice (H, O)
BRONTË, Emily Wuthering Heights (H, O)
KINGSOLVER, BarbaraThe Poisonwood Bible (H, O)
LEE, Laurie A Moment of War (O)
MILLER, Arthur Death of a Salesman (H, O)
O’CASEY, Sean Juno and the Paycock (O)
SHAKESPEARE, William Macbeth (H, O)
TYLER, Anne A Slipping-Down Life (O)
WILDE, Oscar The Importance of Being Earnest (O)


·One of the texts marked with H, O may be studied on its own at Higher Level and at Ordinary Level.

·One of the texts marked with O may be studied on its own at Ordinary Level.


2.Three other texts in a comparative manner, according to the comparative modes prescribed for this course.

·Any texts from the list of texts prescribed for comparative study, other than the one already chosen for study on its own, may be selected for the comparative study.
·At Higher Level and at Ordinary Level, a film may be studied as one of the three texts in a comparative study.

3.The Comparative Modes for Examination in 2007 are:

Higher Level
(i) The General Vision and Viewpoint
(ii) Theme or Issue
(iii) The Cultural Context

Ordinary Level
(i) Hero/Heroine/Villain
(ii) Theme
(iii) Social Setting


4. Shakespearean Drama

At Higher Level a play by Shakespeare must be one of the texts chosen. This can be studied on its own or as an element in a comparative study.

At Ordinary Level the study of a play by Shakespeare is optional.


Texts prescribed for comparative study, for examination in the year 2007

ATWOOD, Margaret Cat’s Eye
AUSTEN, Jane Pride and Prejudice
BRONTË, Emily Wuthering Heights
BRANAGH, Kenneth (Dir.) Henry V (Film)
CAREY, Peter True History of the Kelly Gang
CHEVALIER, TracyGirl With a Pearl Earring
COETZEE, J.M. Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life
DEANE, Seamus Reading in the Dark
DESAI, Anita Fasting, Feasting
DEVLIN, Anne After Easter
ELIOT, George Silas Marner
FRAYN, Michael Spies
HADDON, Mark The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
IVORY, James (Dir.)A Room With a View (Film)
JOHNSTON, Jennifer.How Many Miles to Babylon?
JOYCE, James Dubliners
KEANE, John B Sive
KINGSOLVER, Barbara The Poisonwood Bible
LEE, Laurie A Moment of War
LIVELY, Penelope Moon Tiger
LUMET, Sydney (Dir.) Twelve Angry Men (Film)
MC CABE, Eugene Death and Nightingales
MILLER, Arthur Death of a Salesman
MOORE, Biran Lies of Silence
NAIPAUL, V.S. An Area of Darkness
O’BRIEN, Kate Cruise The Homesick Garden
O’CASEY, Sean Juno and the Paycock
PATCHETT, Ann Bel Canto
RADFORD, Michael (Dir.) Il Postino (Film)
SHAKESPEARE, William Macbeth
Twelfth Night
As You Like It
SHERIDAN, Jim (Dir.) My Left Foot (Film)
TAYLOR, Mildred The Road to Memphis
TOIBIN, Colm The Blackwater Lightship
TYLER, Anne A Slipping-Down Life
YOSHIMURA, Akira Shipwrecks
WEIR, Peter (Dir.) Witness (Film)
WILDE, Oscar The Importance of Being Earnest

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5.Poetry

Higher Level:

A selection from the poetry of eight poets is prescribed for Higher Level.

Students will be expected to have studied at least six poems by each poet.

Ordinary Level:

A total of 36 poems is prescribed for Ordinary Level.
Poets Prescribed for Higher Level


BISHOP, Elizabeth
The Fish
The Bight
At the Fishhouses
The Prodigal
Questions of Travel
The Armadillo
Sestina
First Death in Nova Scotia
Filling Station
In the Waiting Room

DONNE, John
The Sunne Rising
Song: Go, and catch a falling star
The Anniversarie
Song: Sweetest love, I do not goe
The Dreame (Deare love, for nothing less than thee…)
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
The Flea
Batter my heart
At the round earth’s imagined corners
Thou hast made me

ELIOT, Thomas S
The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock
Preludes
Aunt Helen
from The Waste Land II. A Game of Chess
Journey of the Magi
from Landscapes
III Usk
IV Rannoch, by Glencoe
from The Four Quartets East Coker IV

FROST, Robert
The Tuft of Flowers
Mending Wall
After Apple-Picking
The Road Not Taken
Birches
‘Out, Out-’
Spring Pools
Acquainted with the Night
Design
Provide, Provide



KAVANAGH, Patrick
Inniskeen Road: July Evening
Shancoduff
from The Great Hunger Section I
Advent
A Christmas Childhood
Epic
Canal Bank Walk
Lines Written on a Seat on the Grand Canal
The Hospital
On Raglan Road


MONTAGUE, John
Killing the Pig
The Trout
The Locket
The Cage
Windharp
All Legendary Obstacles
The Same Gesture
The Wild Dog Rose
Like Dolmens Round My Childhood
A Welcoming Party


PLATH, Sylvia
Black Rook in Rainy Weather
The Times Are Tidy
Morning Song
Finisterre
Mirror
Pheasant
Elm
Poppies in July
The Arrival of the Bee Box
Child


YEATS, William Butler
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
September 1913
The Wild Swans at Coole
An Irish Airman Foresees his Death
Easter 1916
The Second Coming
Sailing to Byzantium
from Meditations in Time of Civil War:
VI, The Stare’s Nest by My Window
In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz
Swift’s Epitaph
An Acre of Grass
from Under Ben Bulben: V and VI
Politics

Poetry Prescribed for Ordinary Level

ADCOCK, Fleur For Heidi With Blue Hair

ARMITAGE, Simon It Ain’t What You Do

AUDEN, W H Funeral Blues

BEER, Patricia The Voice

BISHOP, Elizabeth The Fish
Filling Station

BUSHE, Paddy Jasmine

DONNE, John The Flea Song:
Go andcatch a falling star

DUFFY, Carol Ann Valentine

DURCAN, Paul Going Home to Mayo

ELIOT, Thomas Stearns Preludes
Aunt Helen

FROST, Robert ‘Out, Out’
The Road Not Taken
Acquainted with the Night

KAVANAGH, Patrick Shancoduff
A Christmas Childhood
On Raglan Road

LEVERTOV, Denise What Were They Like?

MONTAGUE, John The Cage
The Locket
Like Dolmens Round My Childhood

MORGAN, Edwin Strawberries

MULDOON, Paul Anseo

MURPHY, Richard Reading Lesson

NEMEROV, Howard Wolves in the Zoo

OLDS, Sharon The Present Moment

PLATH, Sylvia Arrival of the Bee Box
Child

ROSSETTI, Christina Remember me when I am gone away

THOMAS, Edward Adlestrop

VAUGHAN, Henry Peace

YEATS, William Butler The Lake Isle of Innisfree
The Wild Swans at Coole
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

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