1993 School Magazine

FACULTY OF ENGLISH As part of the Faculty policy providing enrichment of curricu- Ium, and of bringing "The Real World" into our classrooms and learning environments, students in Subject English have enjoyed and benefited from the expertise and experience of a range of guest speakers, writers, and performers

in May, thirty Year 9 students attended an extremely enter- laining talk presented by the acclaimed British writer, Anne Fine, at the Slate Library auditorium, as an extension of their study of an adaptation of one of Anne Fine's works, The Gi'anny Ployect. Anne Fine described the writing process which she employs, offered pragmatic advise to aspiring young writers, and displayed manuscript copies of some of her twenty-five novels for examination by students. A Department of Education film, in which some of our students participated, was made of the session, and will form part of a Meei Tile Author series which is in production.

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(L-R): Vicki Muller, Emma Riggs, SIeven Herrick, Teresa Tweed dale, Cara Newton In Term One, we welcomed back Sieven HerTick, who enjoys a national and international reputation as a Performance Poet He presented a range of poems, written both by himself and others, and demonstrated that poetry at its most entertaining and accessible remains part of a strong oral tradition. The poems, presented 10 an audience of Year 10 students, were selected because of the contemporary relevance and appeal that their themes hold for young adults in the 1990s.

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(L-R): 10 Crumbie, Fahienne Templeman, David Farmiter, Sarah Morgan, Shelley 11iff In Term Three the Year 12 students attended a seminar on documentary film, this forming an important and integrated component of their Media Studies Unit on the documentary genre. The seminar was conducted by David Parmiter, a for- mer Senior Education Producer with ABC Television, who as well as operating a freelance video consultancy which spe- cialises in education and training programs, also currently Iec- lures in Media at the University of Southern Queensland David Parmiier's theoretical and practical expertise combined to engage the students in a tightly-focused and extremely informative session which was of immediate and pragmatic value to them in the devising of their own documentaries

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Marie-Louise TheIle spoke to an audience of recepiive and enthusiastic Year I I students on issues related to their Term Four study of a Media Unit focusing on an evaluation of Television News and Current Affairs, which is designed to make them more critical and informed consumers of the mass media. Her presentation covered areas ranging from philo- sophical issues integral to the ethics of responsible journalism

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