http://www.screencast.com/users/DavidJEBaxter

Enjoy!

End of Week 2. Do a little evaluation. Howzit going?

Q1: Get the hols questions done?

Q2: Involved in class? Plenty of notes & comments?

Q3: Check the blog frequently? Read the notes and posts? Understanding them more?

Hopefully, the answer to all these is yes. If more than one is a ‘no’, you may have a problem – and it’s not about the mark, it’s about the ability to complete the work in a way that both of us would like: confident, with a clear opinion and understanding. It’s easy to let it go; harder to stir yourself to ask, and ask, and ask until it starts to sink in, until you start to be able to express your own clearl views and understandings. It won’t just (magically) come – practice it, in conversation with each other, by responding (send an email) to the blog posts, by beginning to write your own explanations of why characters do what they do (or don’t, as it were!)

Don’t delay – do it today!

 just  today

In this week, we aimed to accomplish four things:

1. Over view of the course – so you know where we’re headed. Check out the Powerpoint: 2010CourseIntro12

2. A ground-level awareness of “A Man for All Seasons” first-up, next year.

3Work out a program for the holidays so that we can all come back with the preparatory work (mainly reading) done, and a base-level of understanding developed.

4. Build a bit of confidence and a sense of determination and energy from which to generate the motivation to succeed.

Year 12 timeline: 2010

Start: November, 2009 – Orientation Week – three lessons – course outline; Letter2Teach; Context prep; UL2P … texts – “Streetcar” & “AMFAS”

Holiday preparation – read the texts – “Streetcar”; “A Man for all Seasons”; “Enduring Love”; cover tasks in Holiday prep pack.

Term 1:

Weeks 1-4 – “A Man for all Seasons” – SAC 1 (R&R) in Week 4

Weeks 5-9 – Prep for “Using Language to Persuade” – Oral presentation AND analysis SACs.

Term 2:

               Week 1 – Camp

Week 2 & 3 – UL2P Persuasive oral presentations

               Week 4 – Analysis (3 sessions, 3 articles)

               Weeks 5-9 – Prep for Context – “Whose Reality”. Core text: “A Streetcar Named Desire”. SAC over 3 sessions in weeks 9 & 10; 3-5 pieces of writing.

Mid-year holidays – Re-read “Enduring Love”; watch “Look Both Ways”

Term 3:

               First day back – First practice exam

Weeks 1-4 – Study R&R text: “Look Both Ways” SAC in Week 4.

Activities week – Second Practice exam

               Weeks 5-9 – Context: core text “Enduring Love” SAC week 9; 3 lessons, one extended (900-1200) piece.

Term 4:

               First day back – Third practice exam

               Weeks 1-3 – Revision and practice for exam.

Wow. Well done. Almost the end of Year 11. Made it.

‘K. Had a good rest? ‘Cos your Year 12 starts now. Yep, now. You’ll hardly have time to dwell on your 11 exam results (about which more later) before your school will be thrusting books into your sweaty hands (no offense – it’s a warm spring) and shouting, “O-Week! Get ready!)

 The Gooney: loves concentric circles

There are two things you can do. Run around in diminishing circles, screaming, “They’re coming to get me!” Or sigh, and get on with it. Chalkie advises option 2.

Check out this podcast: Podcst109n10

It’s definitely not another techno-funky, hyper-mega-digital, “My life’s so interesting I just have to tell you AAAAALLLL about ME!” site. And it’s not (meant to be) so good for you you can feel it clogging you up – a sort of “bran-for-the-brain” effect. OK. Sometimes I sound like my own Dad. Put up with it.
But the fact is, it’s simple. We live and die, here at Chalkie & the drum, by the KISS principle. If you have to ask, you don’t belong here. Go away until you find out.
The drum is the good stuff. The gen, the gist, the real deal, watcha needa know. And for VCE English, Chalkie’s your ace in the hole. Stick around. You’ll see!