[English] Help, It's Issues Time !!

[Lyndall Hough]

Hello,
with reference to resources: in NSW, HSC students will be studying a  
common content area called 'Belonging' from next year. I am currently  
writing a chapter for a text book on 'Belonging' and the book should  
be out by June/July. I am writing on a text called Swallow the Air by  
Tara June Winch published in 2006 by University of Queensland Press.  
The author, Winch, is a young woman who won the David Unaipon Award  
for Indigenous Writers in 2004.
You might be interested in Winch's book as a text on individuality  
and belonging and later in the year, our text book as a resource.

I am an ex head teacher English who joined together with two other  
head teachers English to write text books. You can contact us through  
www.thelearningcurve.net.au or via this email.

I also wrote a book called Language, Context and Meaning Book 1 for  
Heinemann published in 1999 and another text for Heinemann called  
English A - Z published in 2002 (a useful glossary of terms). Another  
one I wrote for them was In fact: reading and viewing everyday texts  
- 1998.

These may be of use to you for resources or for your students.

Regards everyone
Lyndall









On 02/04/2008, at 8:27 PM, Pennie White wrote:

> Hi Max,
>
> I am teaching Y12 English at Monbulk College and we have chosen  
> Identity and
> Belonging for our context. I am currently reading Catcher in the  
> Rye I was
> also looking to share conversations and resources about this.
>
> Perhaps we could migrate to a ning community like Jo McClea has set  
> up for
> Encountering Conflicts at http://year12.ning.com/
>
> I have set up a space for called VCE English Teachers and we could  
> discuss
> the Identity and Belonging here http://vceeng.ning.com/
>
> Regards,
>
> Pennie White
> Junior Curriculum Manager
> Monbulk College
>
> Ph:  9751 9000
> Fax: 9751 9001
> white.pennie.l at edumail.vic.gov.au
> Skype: yvelc_pennielwhite
> MSN: pennie_white_1 at hotmail.com
>
>
>
>
> On 2/4/08 2:24 PM, "Max Duthie" <mduthie at ncable.net.au> wrote:
>
>> Hi Colleagues,
>>
>> I think I have just about got my head around the Context work
>> (although if anyone else out there is teaching Identity and  
>> Belonging,
>> I'd love to hear from you).
>>
>> But, I've been doing some planning over the break and have just
>> realised that "Using Language to Persuade" is coming up fast on  
>> the radar !!
>>
>> Have people given any thought as to the issue they might be using.
>> I've looked at the apology (a bit too political perhaps, esp. in a
>> Christian school) and the Bay Dredging. Also a local issue of  
>> fluoride
>> in drinking water; but none of them really grab me at this stage.
>>
>> Does anyone out there have any bright ideas or resources ?
>>
>>
>> Max Duthie
>> Ballarat Christian College
>>
>>   mailto:mduthie at ncable.net.au
>>
>>
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