INSIGHTS AND WISDOM

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'Understanding Self and Place' and 'The Lessons Life Teaches Us' are wonderful Contexts to explore. It is important for us to read widely for the ideas these Contexts bring up so that we have lots of resources informing our thinking when we have to create texts of our own.

The focus texts for reading are 'Growing Up Asian in Australia' and 'Sometimes Gladness' but your reading should not stop there. When you are reading, viewing and listening to books, magazines, blogs, youtube clips, songs, paintings, films, cartoons, pictures, documentaries, soapies, etc., you should take the opportunity to look for connections they have to our Contexts and focus texts.

The Context Area of Study is also a great opportunity to make cross-curricular links. This means you might be able to see opportunities to use learning from other subject areas you are passionate about in English. For example, studies in Psychology might inform narrative structure and characterisation in a creative short story you develop. Or, you might produce a piece of artwork in graphic design that relates to our Context and would be excellent to present as a thinking prompt in this space.

Use this space to share texts that you come across or produce yourself. When you present them explain what it is you feel they have to contribute to a discussion about 'understanding self and place' or 'the lessons life teaches us'. Also, it is a bonus if you can make links between these texts and our focused texts.

Inspiration is in the eye of the beholder and is all around you. Be a thinker, an explorer, reflective and creative. Be inspired and be inspirational. Use the voice you have to influence the places of the world you live in by sharing your perspectives about the lessons life teaches us.

Friday, May 3, 2013

What could you do?

This is an example of a reflection students have created on the Year 12 Context of Exploring Issues of Identity and Belonging. You too can get creative in the ways you explore ideas for our Context of Understanding Self and Place. Study and homework doesn't need to always be static, at a desk, with head down and bum up and the Creating and Presenting Area of Study provides you with an opportunity to have some fun as you expand your thinking and increase your knowledge base. Get together with friends, flesh out ideas and create a video brainstorm. Draw/paint a picture or design a cartoon that expresses your engagement with the Context and a focus text. Write a song inspired by the focus text and Context and record it. Take a photo. Choreograph a reflective dance routine. Use your passions to enhance your Creating and Presenting studies.

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