Introduction & Overview

As a whole year-level group, students will participate in a session with guest professional writer Archie Fusillo.

Archie will present to the students about his writing career, giving useful advice and activities that help in improving student writing.

In large groups students will cover the information on the Writing in Context unit and begin their first practice Context Writing piece.

We’ll go over the course outline and expectations for Year 12 English in 2012.

Then we’ll introduce the oral presentation task and review oral presentation techniques, along with aspects of the issue itself.

Students will create an individual list of research questions to develop their understanding of the issue and guide their research for the oral presentation.

Classes will have time in the library following the formulation of research questions.

Students will work in the library on research for their oral presentations.

Students should have decided on their persona, context, point of view, audience and arguments by the end of this session.

Students need to complete research and prepare a draft or detailed plan for the context of their speech (DUE Day 1, 2012).

1. Continue work on the first SAC for next year; the Issues Oral Presentation: Continue researching the issues topic by collecting and

reading newspaper articles related to the issues we will be exploring.

Choose a narrowed topic for your oral presentation and develop a scenario for your topic that includes a persona, audience and setting.

Complete a draft or detailed plan for your oral to present to your teacher for feedback.

2. Read the novel “Year of Wonders” which will be our first text. Write brief chapter summaries of key events in the novel.

3. Complete the Context piece you started in transition.

Each of these tasks will be due in your first English class of 2012.