Textual Concepts
The basic elements of speech, writing and visual language convey meaning when they combine in commonly understood arrangements or patterns. These patterns are formed by the interplay.
What is code and convention?
Literature, Literacy and Language
What are the strands of the English syllabus?
A design, rather than a theory used to assist teachers to offer a comprehensive learning experience in the classroom.
What is the Williams Model?
Sally Sells Seashells by the Sea Shore
What is alliteration?
The preferred alternative to problem solving according to Paulo Friere and Joe Kincheloe
The lens can clarify, magnify, distort or blur what we see. By changing the position of the lens, different aspects of the text may be foregrounded. In this way, perspective provides a dynamic basis for the relationship between composer, text and responder.
What is perspective?
Language shapes our understanding of ourselves and our world.
What is the first sentence of the English Syllabus Rationale?
Core, Supported, Extended
What are the extended outcomes of Williams Model for differentiation?
"Friends, romans, countrymen, lend me your EARS"
What you do with other people according to Fred Moten and Stephano Harney.
What is study?
Every text we encounter is considered against our previous textual experiences as we build up a breadth of knowledge and understanding about the ways composers and responders construct meaning.
What is connecting?
"A student responds to and composes increasingly sophisticated and sustained texts for understanding, interpretation, critical analysis, imaginative expression and pleasure."
What is the first outcome of Stage 5 English?
Fluency, Flexibility, Complexity, Originality, Imagination
What are the list of creative processes used by those applying Williams to differentiate learning?
What is hypophora?
"[This space] remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy" - bell hooks
What is the classroom?
Students evaluate their own and others’ ways of responding to and composing texts and understand that meaning making results from particular world views and the adoption of different processes of response, composition and learning.
What is reflecting?
Critical and creative thinking, ethical understanding, information and communication technology capabilitiy, intercultural understanding, literacy, numeracy, personal and social capability.
What are the general capabilities?
Refocus away from achievement and demonstration of knowledge in order to ensure that gifted students from a variety of backgrounds have access to these opportunities.
What is advice for differentiating for students with high potential?
The houses are blind tonight, or in the snouting velvet dingles.
What is a transferred epithet?
"I have heard students and teachers react negatively to critical pedagogy by saying the proponents don't give any empirical proofs of whether or not it works. What they don't understand is that many questions about education don't involve empirical proof. How does one apply empirical knowledge to this question: should teachers help students develop a literacy of power?"
What is a critique a positivism?
Composers working within a particular time or place are, in varying degrees, influenced by characteristic ways of thinking arising out of common social and cultural conditions and are also influenced by each other’s styles, acknowledging that imitation is not the opposite of originality.
What is style?
The diversity and aesthetics of language, the independence gained from thinking imaginatively, the personal enrichment to be gained from a love of English
What are [some of] the values and attitudes being taught in the English syllabus?
Successful, challenging, underground
What are [some of] the different types of gifted students?
What is Antonio Gramsci?