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Hi Gail,<div>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.<br><br><font style="" color="#1f497d"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><font style="" face="Comic Sans MS">Lorraine </font></font></font><br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: bookjewel6@gmail.com<br>Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 20:03:51 +1000<br>To: english@edulists.com.au<br>Subject: Re: [English] Context<br><br><div>I agree, Jan.</div><div><br></div><div>This section has always worried me and the questions seem to keep coming!<br><br>Regards,<div>Julie Squires</div></div><div><br>On 30/07/2012, at 3:01 PM, Jan May <<a href="mailto:Jan.May@stleonards.vic.edu.au">Jan.May@stleonards.vic.edu.au</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote><div>
<div>Hi Gail and Jill</div>
<div>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.</div>
<div>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. </div>
<div>What do others think?</div>
<div>Cheers</div>
<div>Jan<br>
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On 30/07/2012, at 2:49 PM, "Jill Morgan" <<a href="mailto:jmorgan@loreto.vic.edu.au">jmorgan@loreto.vic.edu.au</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hi Gail,</span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">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.</span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I am sure if your students are producing rich writing which explores connection to place and its complexities then they are understanding this Context.</span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Best wishes,</span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Jill Morgan</span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Reynolds, Gail G<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, 30 July 2012 12:09 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> VCE English Teachers' Mailing List<br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Hi everyone I need some opinions.</span><BR>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><BR>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">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.</span><BR>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><BR>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">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?</span><BR>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><BR>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">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.</span><BR>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Gail</span><BR>
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