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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white background="cid:image001.gif@01CCEE1B.9E2C41D0" lang=EN-AU link="#9D454F" vlink="#814E95"><img src="cid:image001.gif@01CCEE1B.9E2C41D0" v:src="cid:image001.gif@01CCEE1B.9E2C41D0" v:shapes="_x0000_Mail" width=0 height=0 class=shape style='display:none;width:0;height:0'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Thankyou everyone for your contributions – I will eventually build some of this shared wisdom into my wiki for future reference</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>J</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>As for the competition yes traditionally an in house comp for the 13 Mercy Schools in Victoria – sorry </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>J</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Jenny Gilbert<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> english-bounces@edulists.com.au [mailto:english-bounces@edulists.com.au] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Reynolds, Gail G<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, 17 February 2012 5:10 PM<br><b>To:</b> VCE English Teachers' Mailing List<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [English] Voice choir<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>I'd never encountered such a thing. A new English week activity on the list -- looks like something our students could run with (even though we are not eligible for the competition I assume)!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Gail<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><div id=divRpF66190><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:english-bounces@edulists.com.au">english-bounces@edulists.com.au</a> [english-bounces@edulists.com.au] on behalf of Jill Morgan [jmorgan@loreto.vic.edu.au]<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, 17 February 2012 2:10 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'VCE English Teachers' Mailing List'<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [English] Voice choir</span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><img border=0 width=50 height=50 id="_x0000_i1026" src="cid:image001.gif@01CCEE1B.9E2C41D0"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Something from Under Milkwood?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> <a href="mailto:english-bounces@edulists.com.au">english-bounces@edulists.com.au</a> <a href="mailto:[mailto:english-bounces@edulists.com.au]">[mailto:english-bounces@edulists.com.au]</a> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Deb Cumming<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, 17 February 2012 11:55 AM<br><b>To:</b> VCE English Teachers' Mailing List<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [English] Voice choir</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>We used to do this many years ago as part of our English/Drama programme – through the Trinity College exam system (from memory) – that may be a place to start</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Deb </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> <a href="mailto:english-bounces@edulists.com.au">english-bounces@edulists.com.au</a> <a href="mailto:[mailto:english-bounces@edulists.com.au]">[mailto:english-bounces@edulists.com.au]</a> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Caruso, Greta<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, 17 February 2012 11:24 AM<br><b>To:</b> VCE English Teachers' Mailing List<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [English] Voice choir</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>HI Jenny, </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>This is really big in Malaysia and Singapore. I saw a competition and it was wonderful. I can’t remember what it was called. Choral recitation maybe. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Greta</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> <a href="mailto:english-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">english-bounces@edulists.com.au</a> <a href="mailto:[mailto:english-bounces@edulists.com.au]" target="_blank">[mailto:english-bounces@edulists.com.au]</a> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jenny Gilbert<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 16 February 2012 10:49 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'VCE English Teachers' Mailing List'<br><b>Subject:</b> [English] Voice choir</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi everyone</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Last year I was a member of the audience for the Frayne Speech Festival – an annual Mercy schools event. One of the competitions was Voice Choir – where students recite poetry in a team of 18-20 and do it in such a way that they use voice and action to contribute to meaning, It was both fascinating and the better teams were very clever – well choreographed etc. </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I am after any resources I can get my hands on for the teacher coordinating our first ever team and suggestions for poems to be used. Last year it was Kenneth Slessor’s night ride. I cannot recall the free choice pieces but they were all quite lengthy and allowed for lots of variation in tone, pitch, pace etc as well as physical movement of the choir itself to convey meaning. If you have any weblinks that would be great too – anything I search tends to throw up musical choir – which is not what I am after. </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Can you help? If not you someone in your network?</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks in advance</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Jenny Gilbert</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Teacher St Joseph's College Mildura</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'><a href="http://msgsresources.wikispaces.com/" target="_blank"><span style='color:blue'>Wiki</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/nenifoofer" target="_blank"><span style='color:blue'>Diigo</span></a> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Jens <a href="http://livebinders.com/edit?id=6500" target="_blank"><span style='color:blue'>PLN at Live Binders</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Twitter - @nenifoofer</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><u><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red'><hr size=1 width="100%" align=center></span></u></strong></div><p class=MsoNormal><strong><u><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red'>Attention</span></u></strong><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext'> <br><br></span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential and, if you are not the intended recipient, you must not disclose or use the information in this message. 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