Comparisons Of The Two Texts example essay topic

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A Comparison Of? The Mayor Of Casterbridge? A Comparison Of? By Thomas Hardy And?

A View From The Bridge? In this piece of coursework our class had to be split up into groups of three or four and have discussions about topics on the two texts? The mayor of Casterbridge? and? A view from the bridge?

The topics were: ? Comparisons of the two texts.? Similarities between the two texts.? The downfalls of the two main characters.?

What makes a tragedy? My group consisted of four people, Me, Mario Noto, Liam Noonan and David Hawthorn. We each took turns at speaking about all of the points, trying to talk smoothly and through flowing. We had to make sure we were able to talk to each other without shouting and without interrupting each other as we talked. Also, we had to use Standard English, not? slang? and we had to constantly refer to the texts. I feel our group did this very well; we all listened to each other allowing each person to talk, one at a time.

We were always trying to use Standard English and we referred to the texts continuously.? Our teacher, Mr Duffy, who was relentlessly walking around the classroom overseeing us all, was making his own assessment of us, taking notes and asking us questions, trying to contribute to the conversation.? Before this conversational session we had studied the two texts in great depth, by doing many essays and exercises on each of them, so we all had a good understanding of the characters, issues, background and context of each of the texts and if we didn? t, we surely had a good understanding of them all at the end of our conversational session.? ?