Yr12 Area of Study Study Day-Darling Harbour-"Journeys" (2 Viewers)

[Mike iE]

I'll type up my notes in a a few days.

The first lecture was a waste of time, the second was good, except i hadn't read all of the stimulus texts so i was a bit lost on a few of the explanations. The third was pretty useful, the parte method is interesting i was bored by the end though and started to tune out.

That guy that kept turning the slides quick was a bit of a toss but he knew what he was on about.

 

[Tenille]

Ahhhh i was getting so fustrated at him flicking the side so quick, then my pen ran out, then he started complaining since we were complaining i wanted to throw something at him. I have to agree with you on the 2 systems tho...

so which icky uniform did you have ???

 

[edd91]

where were yall sitting

 

[Tenille]

We were kinda down the front. some in maroon jumpers and while blouses and the girls were in grey/red/black/white checkered but but really chekered skirts more in a tartin pattern.

 

[KarmaKitten]

It was so pointless and obvious. Everything that man told us (extension 2 english) I already knew from our teachers. And some of the questions people asked were so....obvious.
it made me wonder whether those kids actually have teachers! I felt sorry for them.

 

[MissSavage29]

notes

Yesterday wasn't too bad excpet for teh 5am start - the second lot of speeches were really good and i got some great notes - we already had a lot but its good to have a little more.

Lol out teacher had us right in the front row in the middle...
Anyway here are some notes from speech one and two
Enjoy




The concept of the Journey Section One

Metaphor show how understand links of physical world
Relate and make sense b/w physical, imaginary and spiritual world
Creative metaphor makes strange ordinary and creative strange
Dead Metaphor does not provoke thought
Physical journey involves both inner journey and imaginative journey
Three types of journey
1. Physical
2. Inner
3. Spiritual


Area of Study Stimulus Booklet Section Two

The Road Not Taken

Sustained metaphor for lifes choices
In the form of physical journey yet is an inner journey
Individualist poem about choices you can take
Yearning to make life more meaningful
Cease the Day
Normal roads are unchallenging and unfulfilling

Analysis of poetic devices
Allegory - universal idea shown as part of story
Sustained metaphor road background
Formal poem stanza and rhyme scheme (ABAAB) and Lyrical
No colloquial content important start of journey

Inner journey
2nd Stanza looking back
4th Stanza looking forward

Use of personal pronoun
Personal voyage
Long voyage
Internal journey repetition of 2 roads

Symbols
1. Yellow wood autumn
2. Undergrowth inability to tell future not living as a result
3. Black leaves uninviting path, both paths have black leaves

Tricky poem why? Think about
1. Passing had worn them both them both the same yet one more taken
2. Why sigh?
3. Write about Complexity
Ivory Trail Victor Keller

Social Purpose
To promote desire and attract attention and sell book
Sets up mystery to unresolved
Marketing Meaning
1. Extratextuality
2. Visual Coding
3. Representation

1. Extratextuality
Author fantastical book, adolescence protagonist, overcoming difficulty
Publisher youth / child teen readers
Genre physical journey
Heroic youth in extraordinary circumstances
Comment - Genre as problematic, enigma code of unresolved narrative puzzle read to find out
Comment defies common sense
Expect a resolution

2. Visual Coding
Salience
Demand and Vectures
Where eyes are drawn to the sphinx text frames, lighting, framed against pyramids, shadows, gaze of the eyes towards, mystery of time and culture
Colour danger, new beginning or warm glow of resolution
Symbolism riddle of sphinx shifting sands, new dawn or sunset light and shadow
Reading path gaze not returned by sphinx inscrutable sphinx
Movement upwards rising in the east; spiritual growth or redemption or setting sun resolution engagement with other culture and place

3. The Clash of Civilizations
Physical journey through time and space into other (foreign) culture
Ideology of oriental to east as mysterious, dark (providing complications in narrative)
West and east differences
Inner journey to personal growth engage with others
Moving beyond boundaries of east and west abandoning what we live

The Wind in the Willows

About attitudes towards the journey rather then the journey itself
What language tells us about attitudes towards journey

1st Paragraph
Context
English society
Early 20th Century
Class middle and upper

Contrasting attitudes towards journey
Toad wants journey
Rat resistant to journey

Toad Rat
Bossy ToneStance Straddling ResistantDubiousSarcastic Tone
Enthusiastic about journeyListing highlightsExclamation MarksShort Sharp sentencesYou statements Resistant about journeySpeaks slowlyI StatementsItalics for emphasis

Anthropomorphism attributing human qualities to non-human characters (i.e. Animals)

Characture exaggeration of worst qualities of English society

Humor Irony; both Toad and Rat are bossy in their approach to the journey
Toads caravan all comfort of home, not like leaving home nothing much changed

Symbolism
Gypsy caravan itinerant, no fixed home, transit peoples
Constantly moving physical journeys

Journey to the Interior

Context
Canadian poem
1960s
Old fashion school of poetry
Inner focus rather then focus on landscape
Factual notes on Canadian culture and Canadian colonial history

Analysis of the poem
Form free verse, monolog / 1st person
Purpose to explore mystery of human behavior and nature of self
Narrator male or female deliberately ambiguous to suggest universality of experience
Audience could be partner or interior monologue / private meditation
Style intimate, confessional, conversational, rational and analytical argument, cool, figurative, image driven

Central Mapping Metaphor
Metaphor of physical journey to explain inner / imaginative journey
Physical terrain of landscape as metaphor for mental landscape

Key Image
Mapping metaphor to describe process or nature of inner journey
Similarities and differences b/w map and journey
Landscape to describe her mind
Canada large hard to scale through mid geo on identity

Prairie Landscape
Not saying mind but hills
Search for self infinite, labor / struggle / difficult process, isolation / wilderness / difficult
Tangible branches difficult, cluttered mind, claustrophobic
Poor country weaknesses / poverty of own intellect.
Not fertile or productive slow and clumsy

Explanation (the techniques explain the insight)

Insight the ideas of interior journey for less daunting and difficult then actual process
Techniques mapping metaphor, parallelism, accumulation, image, inner journey but process is hard

Insight Consideration of nature of interior journey may be a deliberate and rational process
Techniques balance / structure, aware of mental status

Insight Interior journey of seeking to understand self is mundane yet dangerous and challenging
Techniques accumulation of ambiguous images, domestic images that become threatening (not sure about that one??)

Insight interior journey is the most fundamental or basic of all journeys. It is inevitable. Journeys can tend to understand self
Techniques structure, line break

Blood on the Tracks

Extract of a review from contemporty magazine

Structure
Form prose, non fiction, review, present tense, 3rd person
Purpose to review Benith the Clouds and reflect on the significance of the road in movie genre
Audience film student, film makers, teachers of film, specialist audience
Style academic / formal, opinion, contemporary, jargon
Assumed knowledge

Paragraphs (description to follow follow the numbers)
1. Discusses significance of road as metaphor
2. History of road
3. Short review

1. Etymology
Road from old English rad journey on horseback
Series of events or course of action lead to overcoming
Insight is important and signifies how journey may offer individual resolution or further impeachment to problem
Sustained metaphor, accumulative academic language, allusion to Frosts poem (text One), parentheses / choices

2. Road
Social realism / semi documentary genre
Plight of economic refuges from Afg. Seeking asylum
Insight individual across time and culture vary experiences their identity such as the diverse road movie genre
Listing, metaphor, formal vocal

3. Insight into road movie genre
Is a physical journey where inner growth occur not necessary obvious pathway to discovery

Journeys over Land and Sea

Purpose
Persuade to visit the S. Library
Inform us of the journeys of discovery and documents there are

Language
Verbs to excite interest
Nouns concrete and abstract
Verbs urgency and intrigue
Forceful action verbs to be inspired

Visual Aspects
Mythical monster www.ub.ult.no/northernlights/eng/omagnus.htm
Reinforce exotic past and place
www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues95/nov95/pliny/html

Quote or text 7

Context
Extract
Author an immigrant from Malaysia to US
Author has experience of traveling b/w cultures, places and released how this experience enlightens and extends
Learn from journey

Form
Prose, non fiction, 3rd person, present tense

Purpose
Travel / writing reflects motive, nature and consequences of traveling

Audience
Educated
Adult readership

Style
Analytical

Genii Loci
Genii plural of spirit / soul
Loci plural of place or location
Common usage guardian spirit of man / place
Genii to do with Genie

Baser Motives (I think thats the spelling)
What you want to get out of journey selfish

Example used at the seminar
Travels to Bali
Baser Motives want cheep alcohol, goods, have good time etc
Genii Loci insight into balances culture connection of land to be moved
The genii loci is what happens when you get to the place

Insight urge to find Genii loci may be result of conclusions motivation or active desire. Where individual seeks inner growth or discovery as well as internal and physical benefits




I hope that fills in some gaps for people - there is some stuff missing though cause it was hard to keep up.

 

[Aussiechick]

I agree with what everyone said, the guy who was turning slides heaps fast was annoying, I couldn't get it all down. Our teacher was taking notes though, and she's a fast writer, I dunno how much she got down...

Our school was wearing navy pants with white shirts, sitting at the front of the top right hand side if u were on the stage.

I'll type up my notes on the weekend for you guys, and the teacher's if I get time.

Overall, the second lecture was good cuz it told me stuff about the stimulus booklet that I didnt know, but the stuff in the other two were things I already knew...

Extension 2 was a bit of a waste too, I knew everything from that before I went. Nice for clarrification though.

Did anyone else tape it?

 

[= Jennifer =]

MissSavage29
thanks for ur notes they are good they r a real benefit for me since our skool never told us about it and i was interested in going thanks heaps !!

 

[MissSavage29]

Glad they were of some help

 

[trekkie]

Hey guys its me, the guy the started the post. I emailed the english teachers association of new south wales and apparently the lecture notes for "Journeys" will be placed on their website in the student section. The address is below:

www.englishteacher.com.au

Just thought that id let you know. Ill post some of my notes in a few days when i get the chance to type them up, cyas

 

[Tenille]

Hmmm i was trying to type up my notes today, and i carn't even read bloody half the word in it lol, so im giving up typing them till i can be bothered to work it out hmmm what could "dectectio" possibley be cause im lost LMAO

 

[KarmaKitten]

you rock miss savage!

 

[= Jennifer =]

Originally posted by trekkie
Hey guys its me, the guy the started the post. I emailed the english teachers association of new south wales and apparently the lecture notes for "Journeys" will be placed on their website in the student section. The address is below:

www.englishteacher.com.au

Just thought that id let you know. Ill post some of my notes in a few days when i get the chance to type them up, cyas

thanks for that handy tip

 

[~*HSC 4 life*~]

Originally posted by Tenille
I so feel sorry for all those people in the icky uniforms ones that come to mind...the pastal pink...sorry but they were kinda yuck.

^^ OMG THAT WAS ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hahah i thought it was fun, i had a good day

 

[piglet-ann]

Miss savage, is ur note exactly taken? I wanna make sure that won't loss any part of it. (but ur note really help me, ^^ thanks)

 

[Tenille]

Originally posted by ~*HSC 4 life*~
^^ OMG THAT WAS ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hahah i thought it was fun, i had a good day

Hehehehe i didnt mean it in a bad really really, its not as if you get much of a choice, but i managed to convince one of my (guy) friends that my wedding dress was going to be that colour heheheh

 

[kimmeh]

stripey?

 

[Tenille]

nah icky pink

 

[~*HSC 4 life*~]

dont bag the pink man!!! LOL pink nurse outfits with blue socks *shudders*
dont worry, we all know how gross they are...it sooo sucks when our shcool makes us go to public places wearing..THAT

 

[MissSavage29]

Originally posted by piglet-ann
Miss savage, is ur note exactly taken? I wanna make sure that won't loss any part of it. (but ur note really help me, ^^ thanks)

I got a majority of the notes they gave us. Some of it - admittidely - is a bit of my own interpretation from stuff that i missed cause they were talking so fast but 99% is accurate. My english teacher has checked it - and she was there and is very happy with them and given a copy to the rest of teh english staff so it can't be that bad.

ummm i hope i've answered ur question (cause i'm not exactly sure what you meant)