[English] Identity and Belonging Ning

Wed Apr 2 21:19:35 EST 2008

Thanks for the references that might assist us with the context of Identity
and Belonging Lyndall.

I have posted a page of Essential Questions to a discussion named "Identity
and Belonging" at http://vceeng.ning.com/

Here is a taster...

Essential Questions

>From where do we get our identity?
Is nature more important than nurture?
Can the environment alter who we are?
Is family group more important than peer group in determining our identity?
Can our identity change over time?
Is identity formed as a rebellion to influences and can this be a true
identity?
How strong an influence is gender on our identity?
Can our identity change with old age or do we then reveal who we really are?
What do we need to belong?

Regards,

Pennie White
Junior Curriculum Manager
Monbulk College

Ph:  9751 9000
Fax: 9751 9001
white.pennie.l at edumail.vic.gov.au

On 2/4/08 9:50 PM, "Lyndall Hough" <lyndallhough at ozemail.com.au> wrote:

> 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
> 
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> 
> 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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