[English] Issues '09

[Rilen, Sophie L]

Thanks for your thoughts.  Greatly appreciated.
 
Soph

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From: english-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Jenny Gilbert
Sent: Wed 25/02/2009 10:34 PM
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Subject: Re: [English] Issues '09






	I was wondering though about this years 'Using Language to Persuade' SAC.  What issues are you looking at to use?  or are you getting the students to choose?  If anyone else out there has any ideas please let me know.
	
	Cheers Sophie


 
Hi Sophie - we choose for amalysis - they choose for the oral persuasive piece. At this stage we may well stick to coverage of the fires - lots of letters and smaller pieces make good practice material and there are issues within it. However we would really like to see something a little more - I don't know what the word is - challenging in language of persuasion? Less repetitive of the same appeals and emotions? something more sophisticated...gritty? Last year we did the sorry speech - it worked really well. There was a lot of sophistication in language and clearly opposing views. 

We have a good local issue - flouride for the water - but not a lot of good material to use. For us the drought is always relevant too. Again - not  much being said about that or the murray darling basin for that matter. The economic rescue package provided me with a great straight forward Knight cartoon (Kev's Insulation) but the callibre of student knowledge on world economics made it hard for many to get below the surface humour. 

We wait - in the meantime we are working with articles on the fires from The Age which seems to be treating it as more of an issue for consideration than an outpouring of emotion. Hopefully something will come up. 



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