GCSEs 2018 (9) Will we get to half term, for never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and who is Banquo

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Nettleskeins it was written by a lesbian in a time when people didn't think that there was such a thing as Lesbians. Maybe the poet was describing her own horror of men?

Oh no calzone hope he feels better in the morning. At least half term is in sight so he'll have time to recover. Such bad luck though.

Slinkyme/Cherryburn/Kingscote - of course what we should look at is whether he was right last year!

Bit of a discussion here this evening when DS showed me instagram videos of one or two of his classmates burning their notes/books after exams.
Perhaps I'm a bit old-fashioned, but I was a bit and just said to DS, "well let's hope they don't need to resit them then!"

Wonderwine but just having a list of what didn't come up is helpful. Some of it's bound to...surely...

Thanks Cherry.

I think it’s being overtired and overworked.....going into school at 7.45 , working through break and lunch, catch up after school and working at home only stopping for dinner......

Too much.

Book burning in any form doesn't sit right with me.

(Related aside- Has anyone had chance to watch the remake of Fahrenheit 451 yet?).

DS hasn't done a stroke of maths revision since Easter, apart from what they do in class. I've never known him be so complacent before. He's worrying me with the risk he is taking.
I tried to persuade him to do a past paper tonight but he refused because he doesn't think he needs to, and he's got RE tomorrow to study for.

It's not good, is it? If he screws up tomorrow, then it's not as though there's much scope to catch up by doing well in future papers because the grade 9 boundary last year was 88%.

I sound like I'm nagging.

Poor ds calzone - hopefully a good nights sleep will help him

This thread is less than a day old and it's already one third full! We are speeding up!

It's the problem they all face once they're in the thick of it mmzz. Too many exams and not enough hours in the day to revise for them all, so they have to prioritise. He won't have lost or forgotten his maths since Easter

Snap cherry we're also AVFTB and unseen.
DS against betting on predictions for papers 2 Sciences. Wants to play it safe.
Ver best of luck for all the mathematicians tomorrow

By the way your children are not relaxing, it's that no human being can keep the adrenaline high for this loooooong.

Maths revision 2 hours R.E revision 30 minutes (sigh).
Good luck to all tomorrow you will all do brilliantly! Early bed for me as I have to get up at 5 walk the dog, take dd to work at 6.30 am go back pick up dgd and drive her to school. Eta back home about 9.30am take the dog out again because she won't do jobs in her own back garden and finally get breakfast/lunch about 12 so just a normal, relaxing day!
Nite all!

Gosh Sostenueto - you are amazing.
How come you are taking your dd to work and then your dgd to school? You sound amazingly hands on with your extended family. I am very envious - DH and I are on our own and would love the level of support you give what seems to be week on week.

Just catching up with everything, but if a manic day here.
DD Loved the Psychology paper this morning.
Says Physics was hard and she thinks her answers for some questions were too logic-y and not science-y enough

She's done a good few hours of maths this evening. Luckily DD1 has been on hand to help with any sticky bits because maths is sooooo not my subject!

Well Done to all the DC for getting through another tough day (and all the DMs too!)

Hope anybody feeling poorly recovers fast.

Will be sending positive thoughts to them all for maths tomorrow 🍀

I've said it before - the world would be a better place if every teen had a grandparent like Sostenueto

Thankfully for me, I also had a grandmother who stepped up when it was needed. I lived with her from the age of 7 until I left home at 18.

I don't think she runs away on their wedding night, Ihadn't considered that reading of it. I just assumed that there was no intimacy between them at all and no love shown by her to him, but you are right mmzz that the timescale seems to be just two months after he chooses her (autumn) so maybe that is right.

But if you think that it is three years later that he "speaks" the poem, and he hasn't yet gone up to the attic, he seems more sympathetic.

The lack of communication is what he worries about, he is surprisingly eloquent himself as a narrator if you think about it, all that imagery, another thing which seems to make him sympathetic rather than controlling. He doesn't jsut want a worker, he wants a wife to love and baby. They don't understand each other but they have more in common than they think as he seems to love animals and understand their ways like her.

Ds2 has found his compass.

wrote this some time ago, then was interrupted, in case it is way out of synch...sorry..

My take on Farmer's Bride is that she was scared, he's creeping her out by looking longingly at her so she is acting mad and only talking to the animals and sleeping in the stable. I think it's the creepiest poem out of both the anthologies. And that's including the Browning murder monologues!

iimpossible I really want to read and watch 451. I read the introduction that Ray Bradbury wrote 50 years (50?) after he wrote it looking back at his younger self but I have to confess I didn't read beyond the first two chapters, I must try harder when I get in the zone.

Nettleskeins I think your reading is better than mine.
Still prefer the 2 Browning poems!

Nettles it could be read in the context of Sost being a great granny because she ran away on her wedding night.

I have no idea which poems are covered on Friday, simply that DD is doing power & conflict. The conflict will obviously arise if the little madam from this afternoon's physics fiasco dares to show her face in the special consideration exam room!

The world would be a better place if every teen had a grandparent like Sostenueto
This.

But maybe he [The Farmer] has gone mad too. Must discuss theme of madness in love and relationships with ds2 and dd!!!!

brainmelt exactly! Sostenueto you are a legend!

Nettle possibly! It's an interesting one - Porphyria's Lover has a mad, unrequited male narrator. But a murderous one. So Farmer's Bride definitely links to it in a lot of ways but not all.