Questions about English Extension 2? (1 Viewer)

[Shadowdude]

Are those ideas from EX1 hard to include in your major work or easy? What are other ideas are there?

So should I pick up Adv and Ext 1? I really want to drop Society and Culture. I was thinking of dropping it for Modern but then I figured I didn't want that either, so should I drop that for those extra 2 units of English? EX2 sounds really fun, but before I make any drastic decisions I really need to be sure of what I'm doing. The issues are that I will be have to be doing 12 units in Year 12, instead of 10, and since EX2 is only 1 unit, I'll be risking damage to my ATAR, because I'm not particularly good at English.

So you are 100% sure that you don't need anything of EX1 to do a good major work?

1. Come on... say you see a nice plot line on TV and you go "Wow, that's nice - I'll adapt it for my next creative writing task". It's the same thing. I saw a nice technique in one EX1 book - which was having multiple endings - so I used a multiple ending for my story.

It's not difficult at all, so stop implying it's difficult somehow. Besides, it is YOUR OWN English Extension 1 and Advanced modules which have to inspire your work so you have to do the research yourself - but I advise you NOT to do that because it has to flow naturally from what you learn in Advanced or Extension 1 - which is something you don't pick.

2. Should you pick it up is the wrong question. "Do I want to pick it up?" is the correct question.

3. Yes. Your EX2 work has to come from ideas YOU LEARN in Advanced OR Extension 1 OR both.

 

[aphorae]

Okay, strawberries chill out.

Your EX2 does not HAVE to come from ideas your learn from adv/ext, you can just bs it to make it suit the ideas... do whatever you want, then just link it back. Oh this person has an identity crisis = BELONGING! Oh look lots of nature = ROMANTICISM! Oh these people have different views because of their religious backgrounds = CONFLICTING PERSPECTIVES!

I wrote a poem focusing on the colour blue (it was symbolic in my story) = INSPIRED FROM HUGHES' POEM RED. I actually read the poem after I wrote mine, but whatever. It's more important that you enjoy the course c: Relating it back to the adv/ext course is the easiest part, there are so many modules...

Inevitably, you'll probably admire at least one concept in your eng adv/ext course and use it (if not purposefully, then subconsciously ~). For instance, I really loved Blake's poetry (his concept of childhood innocence/naivety -> adulthood 'maturity'), and started using that concept for a while before realising that I probably got it from reading so much Blake

If you suck at English though... not sure why you'd be wanting to take this course... it's a lot of effort if you're taking it seriously/wanting to do it really well. A lot of research required ~