Louise TY (:
So TY's already just over and what a year we've had!

As well as going on trips here and there , we also got to try loads of different subjects like music and technology and as well as learning academically you also learn loads of stuff about yourself. TY is all about team-work and I think it really helped me to grow as you have to take on lots of responsibility.
I also learned to be organised and self-motivated.

We also went to loads of places such as Work experience, Young Scientist,Carlingford,State Labs,Mini Company Workshops,Ballet show ,English Trip to town,Swim a Mile,Retreat and Drama Competitions.

We had lots of talks such as WEEE, cycling, our social development day,a podcasting worshop and a colour me beeautiful workshop. IN PE we tried out neew things such as dancing, pilates and tag rugby.

I've was also lucky to be part of lots of successful teams. The noughts and crosses drama group won best new comer at the Briery Gap Drama Final. Team Swift, my technology group got to the semi finals and my mini-company Green Hero won 1st for sustainability and 3rd for quality in the regional finals and 3rd for quality in the national final.

Its a great year of change and a way to make new friends. Overall , TY is was an amazing experience and i'm really glad i did it. :)
Louise TY (:
This morning all the TY's were up early as we had to be in school before 8! We went to the Scifest competition in the ITT.
We have been working on these projects since the beginning of TY and they were submitted for YS, only one project for our year got through to that so we had plenty more time to work on our projects.
Unfortunately my project wasnt in the competition but it was still fun and after lunch we got to go to two lectures, I went to Forensic Science and to a Chemistry one.
St Wolstans won 5 awards, and best overall project so well done to all the girls and especially Aoife B,Kate and Steph H. :)
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Over the Easter I finished Wuthering Heights and I really enjoyed it.
I didn't find it as hard to read as I thought it would be and once I got into it I found it a good read, it does take concentration though, so I wouldn't recommend it as a light read.
You can read my points by clicking the links below...

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Wuthering Heights follows the life of Heathcliff from a young child to death. Found in Liverpool by Mr Earnshaw, he insists on bringing him home and treating him as his son to the dismay of his wife. Throughout their childhood Hindley is jealous of Heathcliff and tries to make his life as unbearable as possible while Catherine unexpectantly takes a shine to Heathcliff. The story evolves with Catherine and Heathcliff falling in love but not having the support of the Earnshaws. Catherine ends up marrying Edgar and Heathcliff becomes more desolate and bitter as he and Catherine are torn apart. He despises Edgar for taking away his soul mate and becomes sourer as the story progresses. Although Catherine is content in her marriage she knows that the bond she shared with Heathcliff was more passionate and spiritual.

When Catherine died giving birth to her and Edgar’s daughter Cathy, Heathcliff immediately loathed her too, as in his view she killed her, and should have been his child. Years later, he forces her to marry his son Linton. Although they get on initially, Heathcliff imprisons her in Wuthering Heights and makes her life a misery. As with what normally happens in novels, we expected Heathcliff to change his cruel and angry traits into a nice man but it’s not until the very end when Heathcliff begins to die and finds happiness within himself and the apparition of Catherine that we see him as a vulnerable and human person for the very first time. He begins to stop eating and wanders around hallucinating Catherine’s ghost. He seems, for the first time in the novel at peace as he realises he will be with his soul mate for eternity.

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I chose to do famous actors who are of Irish descent for my Geogaphy project as it is topical at the moment because many young people are emigrating to America , England and Australia for work. Barack Obama is also visiting Ireland for the first time this summer and his fathers family origionally came from Moneygall, Co Offaly. It is estimated that after 1700 around 9 million Irish emigrated to Britain. In the 80 years up to 1914, 5 million went to the USA. Today 40 million Americans claim direct Irish ancestry. An incredible 80 million people worldwide claim some Irish descent.

You can see the people by clicking on the links below:
George Clooney
Judy Garland
Catherine Zeta Jones
Mischa Barton
Charlie Sheen
Mel Gibson

You can see my google map by clicking here.
Louise TY (:
On Tuesday it was back to school after having over 2 weeks off for Easter. We arrived back a busy day with cooking in home ec where me and Kellie made soda bread and burgers. They were delicious. :)
With only 4 weeks left we are really busy working on TY night. Each person is assigned a subject they have to be in charge of and I'm also helping to make the invitations for parents and teachers. Dances have to be learnt, songs have to be sung, stands have to be organised and hoodies have to be bought.
In doing all of this it really feels like TY is ending but we've had a good year :)
Louise TY (:

Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights is a Gothic novel set in 19th century Yorkshire. It deals with the "supernatural" such as ghosts and dark villainous characters. It is also fiction as it deals with the likes of relationships and class.

The dialogue in Wuthering Heights differs. It is used to create scenes between Heathcliff and someone else. We can see from Heathcliff’s dialogue that he is an angry and bitter character. It helps to portray his traits rather than someone else describing him. Wuthering Heights elderly servant Joseph speaks in a thick Yorkshire accent making hiss dialogue almost impossible to decipher, but again it sets the scene and makes the setting more convincing.

Wuthering Heights is a narrative story. Bronte cleverly uses two completely different people to tell Catherine and Heathcliff's story. A young man from London, an outsider called Lockwood narrates for the beginning and end of the story and Ellen “Nelly” Dean, Thrushcross Grange’s trusted housekeeper tells the rest of the story. By using two points of views, it involves human nature to the story as it tells us the story through different people’s opinions and social class. The story’s not told in chronological order as it’s told like an actual story so it includes various flashbacks.


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Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights is set in the Yorkshire moors in the 19th century. Social class is really evident through her use of setting as the vast differences between Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange really show the vast contrast in classes. Thrushcross Grange is a haven of respect, civility and order. As the middle class, the Earnshaws and Lintons lived comfortably with servants, a big estate and plenty of land. Catherine’s decides to marry Edgar so she will be “the greatest woman of the neighbourhood” We see the luxurious life education provides whilst Wuthering Heights is a centre of chaos, ignorance and neglect.

The Yorkshire moors helps to develop the theme of setting as you get the impression as the characters walk over the hill they enter a parallel world. On one side is the calm, educated Thrushcross Grange where everyone gets along and is generally happy. When you step over the hill to Wuthering Heights, it’s like you step into a different world of neglect, anger and commotion where the likes of Heathcliff, Zillah and Joseph are neither welcoming nor happy. It also symbolises Heathcliff and Catherine’s love as this is where they played together as children, and also the dips and hills in the moors represent their relationship; there’s the good, happy memories and then the sad times of being forced apart.

The use of ghosts in Wuthering Heights is a way of bringing the living and dead together and showing that Catherine and Heathcliff were actually destined for each other as towards the end of Heath cliff’s life he becomes blissfully happy as he begins to connect with Catherine in another world. They portray the way that the past never really leaves the present and that memories help to determine outcomes and reminiscences are forever.

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There are many themes in Wuthering Heights such as revenge, social class, love, rebellion and conflict between good and bad.

We see revenge throughout the novel with Heathcliff. After Catherine marries Edgar instead of him, Heathcliff becomes withdrawn and angry and points his hatred towards her nearest. He despises their daughter Catherine for two primary reasons, for one she is not his child with Catherine and secondly his soul mate died giving birth to her. Just before his death Heathcliff says “My old enemies have beaten me; now would be the precise time to revenge myself on their representatives: I could do it; and none could hinder me. But where is the use? I don't care for striking. I can't take the trouble to raise my hand! That sounds as if I had been labouring the whole time, only to exhibit a fine trait of magnanimity. It is far from being the case – I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.” This shows his peace on reflection of his brutal treating of Catherine’s family throughout his life.

In Wuthering Heights, there’s two types of love. For example, with Edgar and Catherine there is a restrained devotion but with Heathcliff and Catherine it is more adoring and soulful. Although content with being married to Edgar, Catherine’s real soul mate is Heathcliff, they have a real connection and they really understand each other, she makes him a better, more considerate person. We see Catherine’s understanding of the two men in chapter 9 when she says “My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being. So don't talk of our separation again: it is impracticable.” Her daughter Catherine’s marriage to Linton becomes miserable even though they were happy in each other’s company at the start, because he began to pick up his father’s traits.

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For the leaving cert we have to do English, Irish, Maths, a continental language(Spanish) and three options.
Originally I chose Home Ec, Economics and Geography but before the Easter holidays Mr C called me in to say there was no economics class due to poor interest. At the beginning I wasn't very happy as I really wanted to do it but I chose Business instead and hopefully I like it. :)
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