HELP!!!! Mentor for extension 2 (1 Viewer)

[brookiehsc]

Hi! Good luck to all of you handing in your major works for the HSC 2005
Anway back to my probably less of a problem than many you all will be having atm. I am doin extension 2 next year (ie. term 4 this year!) and am wondering where all of you people (so proper english lol) found your mentor and how you found them ie. email, phone calls, old fashioned letter writing!?
Help me! thanks heaps

 

[666_blessings]

You can always ask any of the English teachers, they're usually more than happy to read over your major works. If not, you can always get one of the past ee2 students on BOS to help out. PM me if you need a mentor. =)

 

[kami]

Well there is the English faculty at your school, as well as depending on your work type and the individual teachers background your History or Drama teachers could be of some assistance if you want to just get a second opinion and so on. Also you have the past students(many of which hang out here), some of whom are doing writing courses at uni themselves. If you want to talk to me about your work any time(after HSC lol), feel free. And the EE2 mods are super helpful here if you ask nicely.

 

[brookiehsc]

Thanks heaps guys! um, my school has gone for the whole thing of u actually need an "official" mentor who is specialised in your feild for example a peer is doing a critical analysis on politics in sci-fi so he is supposed to talk to sum1 at a uni that is a lecturer or sumthin.. im all for gettin lots of opinions on my MW but did ne of u have an official mentor like i am being asked to get?!

 

[nwatts]

Thanks heaps guys! um, my school has gone for the whole thing of u actually need an "official" mentor who is specialised in your feild for example a peer is doing a critical analysis on politics in sci-fi so he is supposed to talk to sum1 at a uni that is a lecturer or sumthin.. im all for gettin lots of opinions on my MW but did ne of u have an official mentor like i am being asked to get?!

Heh, just grab kami or glitterfairy. They're official enough.

I'd advise you to go to your nearest Uni's creative arts faculty and ask around - some students there might be happy, or a teacher. It'd be your best bet though, as it's the place to find someone you're after.

 

[brookiehsc]

Thankyou! So far my eng teacher ( i have two seperate teachers for ext1 and 2 unit) has suggested i go to a writers asociation i have emailed them and they have sed they wouold have to pay a mentor profess. rates for me and therefore they r seeing if it is in their budget?! pretty good! so it is not a BOS reuqirement to have a mentor?

 

[nwatts]

Thankyou! So far my eng teacher ( i have two seperate teachers for ext1 and 2 unit) has suggested i go to a writers asociation i have emailed them and they have sed they wouold have to pay a mentor profess. rates for me and therefore they r seeing if it is in their budget?! pretty good! so it is not a BOS reuqirement to have a mentor?

Not at all. My friend (who did EE2) simply had her teacher as a "mentor". They'd organise periods together and go through what she'd written, etc. etc.. She was, however, the only student in Year 12 doing EE2... so I can imagine it'd be a bit different if there were 20 of you.

 

[kami]

Thanks heaps guys! um, my school has gone for the whole thing of u actually need an "official" mentor who is specialised in your feild for example a peer is doing a critical analysis on politics in sci-fi so he is supposed to talk to sum1 at a uni that is a lecturer or sumthin.. im all for gettin lots of opinions on my MW but did ne of u have an official mentor like i am being asked to get?!

Well glitterfairy is doing Creative Writing at Uni, Jhakka is in training to be an English teacher, there was a guy from UTS who was doing Communication(Writing and culture) and sort of advertising earlier this year that he might do mentoring, Pwaryuex is an honours student and a HSC marker and they all would have done EE2. All of whom I suspect do some sort of tutoring at the moment. Not to mention most of the 05ers flitting around here will be majoring in those subjects at uni next year. And if that doesn't cut the mustard for you, then you'll have a hard time getting anything much higher as most universities won't have lecturers that will mentor you through your entire course - they may give interviews and some might give a bit of input but I have doubts they will take you on the entire year unless the uni has a program specifically for that(which I hear UNE does if you live out that area). So I'd advise you to look around the unis creatiive arts/communications etc. faculties and see what they have, just don't expect too much.
Personally for my mw process, I didn't exactly need a mentor exactly, but if I had to categorise anyone as fulfilling that position it would be my EE1 teacher and some of the fantastic people on here.

Thankyou! So far my eng teacher ( i have two seperate teachers for ext1 and 2 unit) has suggested i go to a writers asociation i have emailed them and they have sed they wouold have to pay a mentor profess. rates for me and therefore they r seeing if it is in their budget?! pretty good! so it is not a BOS reuqirement to have a mentor?

No BOS requirements at all to have a mentor - in fact the subject is structured that your teacher is basically meant to be more of a mentor than a teacher, but like I said(and nwatts) no official need.

 

[brookiehsc]

~Thankyou! im sure i will be doing much posting on here next year~ I will def. take on board your suggestions!! good luck with any of you who have handed in your MW!

 

[glitterfairy]

There's definately no need for an external mentor - my EE2 teacher did a fantastic job last year. I sent my drafts off to a professional writer to have it critiqued (you have to pay for this though), but that's really it, excluding the EE2 BOS forum.

As others have mentioned previously, Justin (jhakka) and I (glitterfairy) are always happy to help out if we can (well duh, that's what we're here for, lol). Back to the teacher-mentor thing: We started out with 50-something EE2 students at the beginning of my Yr 12, it did dwindle down to around forty by the end of the year, but every single one of us still met up with our teacher (we had 3 EE2 teachers at my school) once a week to have our drafts and progress checked out. And really, I think that's all you need...

Remember that the forum is always here for you to air your questions and worries. This first term, there's no need to stress out too much - just research your medium and start thinking and experimenting with what sort of thing you need to do

 

[brookiehsc]

I agree. there is no real need for an external mentor, but thats what our school requires us to get. WOW! 50 peiple doing extension 2 we only have 5!!!

 

[glitterfairy]

^ My school's forte is english. I believe they started out with something like 62 (120 total in the grade) this year, although I expect that to drop somewhat by submission date next year.

 

[Z_Nizzle]

i did not have a mentor...although most of the reflection statements in the Showcase seem to indicate the valuable input they have recieved from a mentor....so i just said that i had one too.