Lit Pd
Anecdote. Wandering… Rambling… Readings of the situation.
READINGS INVOLVE There is something vulnerable with character, poet, narrator… It involves power - either society, antagonist, culture Creates empathy. The marginalised, the other. Even intimidation.
Race, class, cultural identity and gender are the traditional. What other practices are there? Where do they start and end?
Readings can be anything. Look at the words, the images, the techniques, the genre, context: historical, cultural, social context, string of reading practices.
Your personal contexts are a reading practice.
The samples provided in hard copy scored 25/25. Close reading two Pg5 - Ecocritical reading not in the syllabus, but teachers are teaching them. There is a disconnect between the teaching and exam. You cannuse bits and pieces… See making key. Readings by themes, genre, techniques, style, form… All on page 6. Student response 2 - how texts naturalise - doesn’t use the words. The value of individualsm is often lost (theme). Historical context - turn of the century. Don’t read too much into the context provided, but they often go too far - it is only conjecture. You must use evidence. Phi - distinct imagery, style, free verse, enjambment, symbol, persona, simile, representation.. page 9… Personal context.
Second Booklet issued, but not discussed.
Most talked about - The Handmaid’s Tale, Othello, Gwen Harwood - most written about in the exam.
No reading strategy is required. It is discouraged!
Insert: If I Had A Gun, by Gig Ryan The poet gets agency from this. The loud, proud voice comes out because if it.
Insert Grace Nichols poetry - published 1984 senses a love of nature, Christian belief from the poems. Born 1950 in Giana, English speaking, slave trade? Nine tribes. Colonised by the Dutch and the English.
- 21 readings have been supplied.
Section Two
Aim for a deep level of meaning, not just the surface. Aim for ideological understanding, not literal.
Observations: unit 3 & 4 future focussed. Dynamic, experimenting, adapting literary conventions - we need to emphasise the changing nature and development of texts, genres, contexts and audiences.
Know the text, the formalities and the concepts. How to deploy the knowledge at the appropriate time.
Methods
- Charts of convention tied to genre
- Quote of competition.
- 7 minute essay idea - question, rephrase, thesis statement and full topic sentences. Great for year 12 pointy end.
- Terminology quizzes.
- A3 sheets of questions, placement activity, group rotation.
- Learn the definition, then come at me with a few questions. Create discussion.
- Posters for terminology.
- Writing it on student work
- Students create infographic.
- Write success criteria for each syllabus pointers, including terminology.
- Prepare responses to questions, then students give a tutorial.
- Barry Bennet - multiple intelligences - teams games tournament. - students write the questions and have access to answers. it’s competitive.
Model classroom teaching
- Buzzers if you have it.
- Hot Seat - student adopts a character - the other students ask questions of them. They don’t need to be in the text. It helps develop context for the character. Quick fire answers. It’s fun.
Answering Questions The WHAT and the HOW THE WHAT: The COMMAND VERB from the glossary. CONDITIONAL WORDS - usually towards the middle or the end. ‘one or more’, ‘Australian’. THE HOW: Conceptual Words: ideology, intertextuality… It means they ignore others CRITICAL WORDS they steer the question in a particular direction. They create boundaries of the concept : change, extent, resonate, extent.
- Meta-language/Terminology
Terminology shifts with the genre. Be aware of it. For example, theme rarely appears. It has been replaced by ideas…
Drama genre - with new terms
Vocal:
Body - movement, gesture, gait, structure…
Lighting (awash is whole stage, spot, profile, wash and degree of intensity), sound, set, costumes, properties (props), makeup, audio/visual (so multimodal now).
New terms Cast and creatives (not crew) Dramaturgy - advisor to the director (history, continuity and context) Scenography: concerned with the construction of scenes in a performance. Particular emphasis on stage with regard to patterns, balance, repetition and other Principals of Design ( a kind of mis en scen for the stage)