2003 School Magazine

,^ LANGUAGE AND LITERACIES 2003 for the Centre for Language and Liter acies has been distinguished by the intro uc ion o g ' senior curriculum, the institution of Writers' Week, the return of overseas travel OPPortuni ies wi , from visiting academics and further curricular-related interactions with Brisbane rammar c EN GLISH ExTEN SION (LITERATURE) Students who participated in the subject English Extension ILiterature) has proved both to be an extremely popular and an during 2003 thrived on the challenges an the autonomy generated by the stimulating intellectually engrossing subject for those Year 12 students who rose to the challenge approaches to teaching an earning in e subject, which in its structure and delivery, in this. its inaugural Year in the school. This is oriented more to the relative freedom and two-semester enrichment subject, studied informality that characterise learning in a concurrently with Senior English, has University environment. Taught by Dr Robyn enabled students to be immersed in an Colwill, classes run offline on Monday of traditional and eclectic range evenings. After sharing dinner in the Dining contemporary literary theories, and to apply Room, students adjourn to seminar sessions these theoretical understandings about that are characterised by lively discussion reading and writing practices to a diverse and animated intellectual engagement with range of canonical and contemporary texts, the elements of the course, as they engage including those from popular culture, with the nature of literature and how which they selected for their independent texts may be read as 'literary', thereby guided study FACULTIES subject itself. Dr R Colwill Head of Senior English

conceptual is ing notions of 'literariness' in terms of their own reading and writing practices, as well as those of others The twenty students who undertook the developed and demonstrated course impressive and sophisticated sets of understandings about literature and literary theory, and their excellent outcomes in the subject reflect not only the creativity, commitment and capacities of this very first and therefore very special group of students, but also the inherent fascination and intellectual appeal engendered by the

WRITERS' WEEK

Doris Townsend IWaraker) Creative Writers Master Classes Second Row: Anna Taylor, Madelin Newman. Ms Bronwyn Lea, Rohani Mitchell nt Row: Zoe Briggs, Susannah Hume. Shona Gray

in heralding the official start to Writers' Week, the Doris Townsend IWaraker) Memorial Visiting Poet, multi award- winning Ms Bronwyn Lea, conducted well- received Creative Writers' Master Classes with interested senior students' The girls enjoyed the uninterrupted opportunity over the weekend to savour the beauty of language and to experiment with ideas, metre and imaginative word-pictures In their own writing.

Our inaugural Writers' Week held in late July introduced eminent authors and academics to students at all levels for cohort lectures, class workshops and small group discussions. Experts in their respective fields, these visitors stimulated thought, an appreciation of creativity and a respect for scholarship in their Youthful audiences. Such role models brought a dynamic reality to career futures based on disciplined approaches to thinking, writing and creativity.

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