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<DIV>Dear everyone,</DIV>
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<DIV>The practice exams will be held 5 - 7 October.</DIV>
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<LI><STRONG>10 VCE LITERATURE STUDENTS</STRONG>: texts will be <EM>Hamlet, Stasiland, A Passage to India </EM>and Gwen Harwood poetry.</LI>
<LI><STRONG>27 IB STUDENTS -</STRONG> texts will be <EM>A Streetcar Named Desire, Oedipus the King, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Doctor Faustus.</EM></LI>
<LI>Payments according to VCE and IB rates.</LI>
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<LI>any suggestions of people who may be retired or not on this English list?</LI>
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<LI>many thanks!</LI></UL>
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<DIV><IMG src="cid:TLGIGHPQWOCM.IMAGE_6.jpeg" width=194 height=57 apple-height="yes" apple-width="yes"></DIV></SPAN><BR><BR>>>> Jan May <Jan.May@stleonards.vic.edu.au> 28/07/2011 7:16 AM >>><BR>I've been using 'A Christmas Carol', the film Graveyard of the<BR>Fireflies, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Inheritance, Frankenstein,<BR>poetry text Blue Light, Clear Atom and a Shakespeare play. Also did<BR>earlier in year a bit of a Shaun Tan unit using class set of The Red<BR>Tree and short film, The Lost Thing. <BR><BR>>>> "Caruso, Greta" 07/27/11 6:39 AM >>><BR>We have done <BR>Beneath Clouds (Great Australian film) but will next year swap to Mary<BR>and Max (animated film by Adam Eliot)<BR>The Longest Memory but will swap to The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville<BR>(possibly) <BR>Night <BR>Medea (but I think I am sick of that)<BR><BR>Cheers, <BR>Greta<BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: english-bounces@edulists.com.au<BR>[mailto:english-bounces@edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Alex NELSON<BR>Sent: Wednesday, 27 July 2011 3:13 PM<BR>To: VCE English Teachers' Mailing List<BR>Subject: Re: [English] Text Choices for Yr11 Lit?<BR><BR>We do Edgar Allen Poe, A View From the Bridge (as a sort of Views and<BR>Values study), Frankenstein (as a novel into film study), Midsummer<BR>Nights and a short story from Tim Winton's "Minimum of Two" for the<BR>comparison task, and Chaucer's A Millers Tale for creative response. But<BR>nothing very modern in here...<BR><BR>Just went to a New texts for Year 12 English PD and was told Atwood's<BR>Cat's Eye, Carver's Will You Be Quiet Please and Things We Didn't See<BR>Coming, Steven Amsterdam (I think) would all work well for Year 11 Lit<BR>as well.<BR><BR>Cheers<BR>Alex<BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: english-bounces@edulists.com.au<BR>[mailto:english-bounces@edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of<BR>nautakat@tpg.com.au<BR>Sent: Wednesday, 27 July 2011 2:42 PM<BR>To: VCE English Teachers' Mailing List<BR>Subject: Re: [English] Text Choices for Yr11 Lit?<BR><BR>We are finding 'I'm not Scared' a terrific choice at yr 11.<BR><BR>We still love Macbeth, always works with Yr 11s with lots of<BR>supplementary activities.<BR><BR>We also look at Paul Kelly's lyrics and again Yr 11s respond to the<BR>familiarity of these.<BR>Good luck, Kathryn<BR><BR>On Wed, Jul 27th, 2011 at 1:05 PM, "Kennedy, Renee L" wrote:<BR><BR>> Hi All,<BR>> <BR>> I would like to know what texts schools are choosing for year 11 <BR>> Literature? 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