[English] Context

[Jill Morgan]

Hi Gail,
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.
I am sure if your students are producing rich writing which explores connection to place and its complexities then they are understanding this Context.
Best wishes,
Jill Morgan

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Hi everyone I need some opinions.



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.



>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?



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.



Gail

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