English Essay

2011. S11

Coimisiún na Scrúduithe Stáit State Examinations Commission

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JUNIOR CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION, 2011

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ENGLISH - HIGHER LEVEL - PAPER 1

180 marks

___________________ WEDNESDAY, 8 JUNE - MORNING, 9.30 - 12.00 ___________________ ________________________________________________________________________

YOU MUST ATTEMPT ALL 4 SECTIONS ON THIS PAPER

IT IS SUGGESTED THAT YOU SPEND ABOUT HALF AN HOUR ON EACH OF SECTIONS 1, 3, 4, AND ABOUT ONE HOUR ON SECTION 2

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The following e edited extrac is adapted from The Maeve Binc ct d chy Write Club. T book ar ers’ The rose from a writing cou urse, which h aime to help as ed spiring writers start and finish a bo d ook. Each week succe essful write Maeve B er, Binchy, wrot a letter to the students on te o the c course sharin her thou ng ughts on a di ifferent aspe of writin In ect ng. the a adapted extr below, M ract Maeve give advice on telling a st es n tory. Dear Writers’ C r Club membe ers, 1. I can tell you w story t write. No n’t what to obody can do that exce you. Th is no po in d ept here oint tellin anyone e what to write abou But I can share with you some of the advic I got ng else o ut. n h ce alon the way f ng from wise ed ditors, men and women whose job it is to kno what peo like an n b ow ople nd to ke us write somehow on the rai eep ers w ils. They say that w y when beginn ning a story you should always try to catch people at som interestin me ng juncture of their lives, like when they have to mak a choice or decision or when someone has r ke n, s betra ayed them, or at the sta of love o the end of love. It’s better to co across them at art or f ome t some kind of cr e risis than in the middle of a long, lazy summe where not l er thing happe ens. The notion of ch hange is im mportant in a...