[English] Ideas for a new anthology would be good

[Lyle Stebbing]

Hi Jill,
I'm surprised by your email to me off the mailing
list, i.e. 
Dear Lyle
I wish I had a budget which would enable me to pay
people who might do this sort of work.  I know it's a
big ask.  As you may know we're a not-for-profit
organisation and will niot be making vast sums out of
the end product - just trying to put something
together that's of value to teachers.  That's my
personal ambition.
regards
Jill
   When you say 'we,' are you referring to Curriculum
Corporation? If Curriculum Corporation is a non-profit
organisation, I'd be happy to share resouces tha would
help other teachers. But I've never seen Curriculum
Corporation as this. I thought at least part of it was
definitely geared geared towards profit.
Lyle

--- "Wilson, Jill" <jill.wilson at curriculum.edu.au>
wrote:

> Dear Jo
> 
> We haven't considered this but if we got some
> examples of writing which
> were interesting, I can't see why we wouldn't put
> some in.
> 
> Jill 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: english-bounces at edulists.com.au
> [mailto:english-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf
> Of Jo McLeay
> Sent: Sunday, 29 October 2006 2:28 PM
> To: VCE English Teachers' Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [English] Ideas for a new anthology
> would be good
> 
> Are you also looking for unpublished writing or just
> published writing.
> Could student writing be considered? (I'm thinking
> secondary school
> students)?
> cheers,
> Jo
> 
> --- Margaret Zeegers <m.zeegers at ballarat.edu.au>
> wrote:
> 
> > I have a couple of suggestions:
> > The Prologue from Feral Kid (p. 7) as well as the
> chapter 26 'Morning'
> > from the same book, pp 163-164 (part of a
> homelessness theme re place,
> 
> > and personal shaping
> > 
> > I would also suggest any passage at all from
> Steven Herrick's 'By the 
> > River', but especially 'Sometime, someday' pp.
> > 201-202 and 'The Big
> > River', pp. 24-25
> > 
> > Cheers
> > mz
> > 
> > Dr Margaret Zeegers
> > Senior Lecturer
> > School of Education
> > University of Ballarat
> > University Drive
> > Mt Helen
> > Victoria
> > Australia, 3363
> > 
> > Ph: + 61 3 5327 9327
> > Fax: + 61 3 5327 9717
> > email: m.zeegers at ballarat.edu.au
> > 
> > >>> "Wilson, Jill" <jill.wilson at curriculum.edu.au>
> > 10/27/06 1:39 PM >>>
> > Dear group
> >  
> > I am hoping that some of you might be interested
> in helping with a 
> > project I'm currently managing.  Curriculum
> Corporation will be 
> > publishing the following in January 2008:
> >  
> > The project is a collection of writing and art
> which has attempted to 
> > characterise Australians, a collection of text
> types which explore 
> > notions of Australian identity.  It will include a
> range of genres 
> > that are engaging for an upper secondary school
> audience (Year 11 - 
> > 12) as well as a general audience.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > The aim is to compile a collection of voices which
> are diverse, 
> > contradictory, provocative and, at times,
> complementary of each other.
> > The text as a whole is designed to explore the
> notion of identity and,
> 
> > in particular, the conversations, past and
> present, that Australians 
> > have about who they are and what has shaped them
> as a people.  It will
> 
> > provide a richness of materials, speculative
> opportunities and space 
> > for
> > reflection about this issue.   The themes are
> > outlined at the end of the
> > email.  
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I would like some ideas from all of you as
> practising English teachers
> 
> > - do you have favourite pieces tucked away that we
> could use?  The 
> > text types are varied - poetry, extracts from
> novels, cartoons, 
> > essays, newspaper articles, artwork etc.
> > 
> >  
> > We would pursue the copyright on anything you
> suggest that is 
> > selected.
> > I'm afraid that there is only glory in the
> project, not money attached
> 
> > to helping but we will acknowledge your help.
> >  
> > Any suggestions can be posted to me or emailed (if
> you have it in 
> > electronic form).  My mailing address is:
> > Jill Wilson
> > Curriculum Corporation
> > PO Box 177
> > Carlton South 3053
> >  
> > If you need an Express Post bag to help with this,
> just send me an 
> > email with your mailing address.  It you sned
> anything, can you please
> 
> > attach a copy of the publication details so we can
> chase copyright.
> >  
> > The collected voices are intended to produce an
> energetic and engaging
> 
> > approach to being Australian.  The collection
> should be 
> > non-stereotypical, focused on the contemporary as
> well as traditional 
> > views of what it is to be Australian.  The
> collection should include 
> > pieces which relate to and "speak to" each other
> as well as pieces 
> > which problematise the content. As a text for
> English classrooms, the 
> > text will range across modes of expression from
> fine literary writing 
> > to pictures to pieces expressing strong arguments.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > The intention is that school students emerge with:
> > 
> > *	interest in and increased understandings of how
> > and why identity
> > is talked about and represented
> > *	some knowledge of traditional ways in which
> > questions of
> > identity have been approached in Australia
> > *	awareness of competing, contradictory and
> > contemporary views of
> > this topic.
> > *	having participated in discussions about
> > contesting views of
> > what it is to be Australian
> > *	the joyful experience of experiencing good
> writing
> > and finely
> > honed argument.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >  The resource is intended to include content about
> the following:
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Shapers of identity like:
> > 
> > *	The places "we" live: Landscapes - Eastern
> > seaboard/vast empty
> > interior, urban landscapes, rural landscapes, the
> beach
> > *	Who are "we"?: People and events - Recent and
> past
> > events which
> > have shaped attitudes and values, prominent
> Australians, Indigenous 
> > people of Australia, immigrants to Australia
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Expressions of identity like:
> > 
> > *	The way "we" talk about ourselves - How we are
> > constructed by
> > and in the media -opinion, reflection and
> commentary, 
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