[English] Context

Mon Jul 30 20:44:49 EST 2012

Hi Gail,At a PD I attended the presenter said that we need not confine our students ideas to the selected text alone, they may draw ideas from any other texts too but their writing must connect to the context.

Lorraine 

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Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 20:03:51 +1000
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I agree, Jan.
This section has always worried me and the questions seem to keep coming!

Regards,Julie Squires
On 30/07/2012, at 3:01 PM, Jan May <Jan.May at stleonards.vic.edu.au> wrote:

Hi Gail and Jill
I haven't got time to add much at the moment but I did mark IL and remember some wonderful links to Asia. Will think more on it and let you know.
BUT I would also love a conversation about the whole Creating and Presenting section of the course. My feeling is that VCAA need a review, sooner rather than later, of this section in particular. We are 5 years (?) in and still many questions being asked
 and frustrations being aired. 
What do others think?
Cheers
Jan

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On 30/07/2012, at 2:49 PM, "Jill Morgan" <jmorgan at loreto.vic.edu.au> wrote:

Hi Gail,
While the students need to ‘draw directly from at least one selected text’ in their exam response it is really the key ideas about emotional connection to landscape
 that should be the focus.  We give our students a wide range of texts from newspapers and other sources to draw on and encourage them to explore ideas like the remembered landscape, dislocation etc.
I am sure if your students are producing rich writing which explores connection to place and its complexities then they are understanding this Context.
Best wishes,
Jill Morgan

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Subject: [English] Context

Hi everyone I need some opinions.

Our students are doing Imaginative Landscape as their Context.  The set texts have a strong bias toward the rural Australian landscape but we have a sizable Asian population, many
 of whom are writing not about the Australian landscape but the landscapes of their homelands. Much of their writing is rich and engaging.

>From my perspective this should be allowable as they are using the set texts as their jumping off points, but I am getting cold feet wondering if it is acceptable in the exam. 
 I haven't marked Imaginative Landscape... Any comments?

As an aside, I think it is a real pity that this Context has such a narrow range of texts; there are any number of non-rural  reflections on landscape which would meet the text
 setting criteria and make this more accessible to city dwellers.

Gail

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