Secondary English Network Day

Description

The focus for this network meeting is broad and includes the 7-10 Syllabus, as well as all of the Senior Secondary Courses.  Teachers have the opportunity to share relevant resources and knowledge.

This course is run in conjunction with Catholic Education WA.

8:30am                         Registration and networking

8.55am                         Acknowledgement of Country and Prayer

9.00am                         Narrative viewpoints and narrative voice:  conceptual understanding and formative exercises – Part 1

                                      Presenter: Anthony Phillips (SCSA)As well as being one of SCSA’s Principal Consultants, Anthony is the author of many published stories, so he brings this experience, as well as his experience as a teacher and HoLA, to this workshop.  *More information about his publications below.

10.00am                       Question Time – A General forum for all matters English

10.30am                       Morning Tea    

11.00am                       Workshop on narrative voice and narrative point of view – Part 2

12.30pm                       Lunch

1.15pm                         Collegial sharing of Course Outlines and Assessment Outlines

2.00pm                         Engaging students with alternative text choices

2.15pm                         Updating the shared text list

2.30pm                         Blueback – the film.  Using this text and the Atom Study Guide.  Presenter: Wayne Walters (Minderoo Foundation)

3.00pm                         AOB 

3.15pm                         Evaluation

3.30pm                         Close

*Anthony Phillips has worked in the State, Independent, and Catholic sectors, and has spent most of the past decade as a HOLA at Santa Maria College. Under another name, however, Anthony has had over 20 publications, predominantly short stories, and novelettes in anthologies and journals. For lovers of literature some story homes include The Best Australian Stories, Meanjin Quarterly, Overland Literary Journal 204 & 214, the anthologies: We’ll Stay in That Place and Other Stories; Changing Tides; and The Sky Falls Down An Anthology of Loss. He’s also had stories in The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy & Horror Vol. 2 & Vol. 6, the Sir Julius Vogel Award-winning At the Edge and Aurealis Award-winning Bloodlines, and the Aurealis Award shortlisted Dreaming of Djinn and Kisses by Clockwork.