To make it easier for your examiner to find the work that you want assessed, please do the following. As well as submitting the details of your 3 assessment pieces into WebCT, please post INTO YOUR LIVEJOURNAL a post that has in the SUBJECT LINE: MY BEST LIVEJOURNAL ENTRIES. Then give the dates of your…
Life's Seasons- Poetry Competition Winners
The Judges Decision is final. Judges were 4 third year LJAAs: Maxine, Alyssa, David and Olivia… with the help of yours truly. I have decided this time to find the best poem from each year of students. There was a top first year, top second year and top third year…. but so much talent overall!…
Life's Seasons- Poetry Competition Winners
The Judges Decision is final. Judges were 4 third year LJAAs: Maxine, Alyssa, David and Olivia… with the help of yours truly. I have decided this time to find the best poem from each year of students. There was a top first year, top second year and top third year…. but so much talent overall!…
Life’s Seasons- Poetry Competition Winners
The Judges Decision is final. Judges were 4 third year LJAAs: Maxine, Alyssa, David and Olivia… with the help of yours truly. I have decided this time to find the best poem from each year of students. There was a top first year, top second year and top third year…. but so much talent overall!…
Poetry Comp Winner(s) will be announced this Friday.
Garlands will be placed at lectures next week! MG
Week 10 Ideas for LiveJournal
The new system of LiveJournal Academic Assistants is now in full swing. You should all be visited by your LJAA very soon. Once you have been visited you can ask them questions and get the advice you need. The whole LJ experience will, I am sure, get a powerful lift through this process. And remember…
Another Amazing Poem!
If you want to see someone else’s amazing poetic creation- this one using animated, kinetic imagery then check out Rebecca Isgrove’s offering (Second year student) at: http://rebeccaisgrove.livejournal.com/2417.html?view=4977#t4977- you will need to click on her electronic text icon. If you are not on her friend’s list click here: http://www.rebeccaisgrove.com/hypertext1.html She is happy to share her “secret”…
Experimenting with poetic form
Suzanne Brooke asked me to comment on her Ekphrastic poem …. I took one of her stanzas and worked on shaping it visually and physically. Here is her stanza (check it out in context on April 28th: http://maryhope.livejournal.com/): Staring left and right Wondering which is better To stay in the past Or To embrace the…
2nd. Yr. LiveJournal Academic Assistants for First Year
Here finally is the fully equipped team of Second Year LJ specialists riding to help all first years to become LJ afficionados (look it up!). Enjoy their comments and help. They are adding real value to the whole LiveJournal phenomena and to the study of literature at ACU. Thank you very much LJAA Team.- Triple…
3rd Yr.LiveJournal Academic Assistants for Second Year… they have arrived!
Click on the image to get a close-up of your LJAA: click twice to get an even closer close-up! No matter what the weather They’re coming through the purple heather To lend you A hand Ciao MG
Week 9 Literature at ACU
A heady week for us all. In first year we finished off our poetry segment and explored some wonderful short poems that gave a real taste of the huge differences in poetic language between one poet and the next. I especially enjoyed exploring Gary Snyder’s “Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout”. This is where Gary Snyder…
LiveJournaL Academic Assistants Help Team On Its Way
A similar team is on its way to Second Year Students… you have already been mailed details of this in WebCT: but here is the provisional third year group helping Second Years:
LiveJournaL Academic Assistants Help Team On Its Way
Hi patient first years: we have just created this fantastic device called an LJ Help Team (made up of a bunch of very enthusiastic second year students). Here they are, and here are the groups of you guys who they are going to work with. So please welcome this group of trusted, skilled, patient, artistic…
Suggestions for Week 8
Year 1: those that hung around for the last half hour of the lecture (ho-hum!): try finishing the poem you started inspired by William Carlos Williams poem about the number 5. For others… and for all… in the light of what we have learnt today about imagism and about the critical importance of the form…
First Year LiveJournal Entries- Take 1
Hi First Years: here are a few thoughts about your progress in LiveJournal since the beginning of semester. Most of you have now mastered the tasks of uploading and of making your LiveJournal look visually interesting. Some of you are still to learn the “art” of uploading images into your LJ. Images can really support…
Suggestions for Week 7 LJ Entries
First years: you could develop any one of those poems/ prose pieces that you started writing on Friday in class: the Ekphrastic poems…. if, for whatever reason you missed the class this week, you could write a commentary on Mirikitani’s “Breaking Tradition” the poem that we all spent some really good time on in tutorials.…
Poetry Competition- Deadline: Friday 20th April!!!!!
Don’t Delay- Post your Entries to http://community.livejournal.com/poetrywcom/…. hope to see you there!!!!! MG
Poetry Competition- Autumn 2007- Life's Seasons.
Thank you all for your many suggestions for a theme for our next poetry competition- they were all good, all potentially cracker-jack entries (by which I mean capable of producing a crop of new poems that would jump out of the ground like cracker-jacks!). But the one that caught my imagination most, and that seemed…
Poetry Competition- Autumn 2007- Life's Seasons.
Thank you all for your many suggestions for a theme for our next poetry competition- they were all good, all potentially cracker-jack entries (by which I mean capable of producing a crop of new poems that would jump out of the ground like cracker-jacks!). But the one that caught my imagination most, and that seemed…
Poetry Competition- Autumn 2007- Life’s Seasons.
Thank you all for your many suggestions for a theme for our next poetry competition- they were all good, all potentially cracker-jack entries (by which I mean capable of producing a crop of new poems that would jump out of the ground like cracker-jacks!). But the one that caught my imagination most, and that seemed…
Suggestions for Week5/6 LJ Entries
Hi all… Easter is almost upon us so we need to tidy up our Live Journals in ready for the first “inspection”…. hope that you have all found the experience challenging and satisfying. I must say there have been some fantastic breakthroughs in terms of what students have been doing in LiveJournal across all years.…
Week 4 Teaching
One quarter of the way through semester! And we have covered such amazing ground in four weeks. Let’s take a quick review: In first year: a clutch of the world’s greatest story tellers: Mena, Kafka, Parker, Cliff, Leyner – and along with this an exploration of how we as readers shape the meaning of the…
Great First Year LJ Blogs
I am going to keep an updated list here of some excellent first year LiveJournal Blogs as they come to hand. Please visit them, make friends, make comments and let’s keep the community growing and growing: For some wonderful stories, poems and comments take a look for starters at: http://suze-h.livejournal.com/ http://davidchadar.livejournal.com/ http://elisriture.livejournal.com/ http://aussielatina.livejournal.com/ http://peterjmw.livejournal.com/ http://davidoff22.livejournal.com/…
Year 2 ENGL200 19thC. Literature Art Gallery Visit: How Literary Themes Are Mirrored In Visual Art.
Thank you all for your enthusiastic attendance. We began with Brett Whitely- only because he is Romanticism re-incarnated in the late 20th Century. This amazing painting is called “Alchemy” – the ancient art of turning coarse matter into gold (symbolic of the spiritual domain)- and it is a painting of huge spiritual significance despite its…
Great News- Our Uni LiveJournal Poet published
Hi all – I have just had confirmed something that I had heard on the grapevine a few days ago, that one of our literature students, Young J, who was in third year last year – and began LiveJournal with us 3 years ago- has finally had a book of his poems published. These are…
Week 3 Teaching and ETC
Hi all- an amazing week all round. In first year we had the luxury of reading four fantastic stories: Katherine Mansfield’s “The Garden Party”, James Joyce’s “Araby”, Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” and Hanif Kureishi’s “Blue, Blue Pictures of You”. These represented Anglo/New Zealand, American/European, Irish and Anglo Pakistani perspectives. Talk about international literature!…
Week 2 2007 Hi all- hope the week has not been too exhausting
Thank you all for your keen participation during this second week. Third years: we had a rollicking time mulling over the nature of love in the sixteenth century, contrasting that with love in the 21st century. Are there any essential similarities? Certainly love stories from the 16th century seem to be filling our cinemas. My…
Harry Potter Appreciation Society Meeting
Fabulous to see our senior students co-ordinating such literary activities: well done Alyssa. Hope the event goes really well. MG “Harry Potter Appreciation Society Meeting this Thursday 8th March at 2pm outside the canteen. Great discussions of all things Harry!” Organized by Alyssa P (3rd Year Literature) <!– –>
First Year: Introduction to Literature
Hi first years… I think we had a great start to the subject. We managed to deal with the administrative stuff painlessly and were able to get down to the business of responding deeply to literature very quickly. So good to see so many of you eager to talk about and share your ideas. And…
Ideas for LiveJournal Entries for Week One 2007
Hi all: a provisional plan is to post in here some suggestions each week for what you might like to try in your LiveJournal. So each week (as I pass through my three units: Shakespeare; Nineteenth Century and Introduction to Literature) I will jot down ideas for critical and creative responses to what we have…
Welcome back to Uni everyone!!- and an International On-Line Conference on Blogging
In two weeks time we are all back together, cutting our teeth, brains and imaginations on fabulous literature… I am really looking forward to the journeys we have in store for us. For third year: the renaissance in England in the sixteenth century; for second year the nineteenth century and Romanticism; for first year an…
Welcome back to Uni everyone!!- and an International On-Line Conference on Blogging
In two weeks time we are all back together cutting our teeth, brains and imaginations on fabulous literature… I am really looking forward to the journeys we have in store for us. For third years: the renaissance in the sixteenth century in England; for second years the nineteenth century and Romanticism; for first years an…
Great News
And now for the great news that Anissa and John have both gained entry into our uni as a result of their work in the C program. Congratulations to you both! And George has gained entry into the CI to study Theology… so all the hard work put in by you all on those long…
Christmas Day in the 'Tanic Gardens
Some of the C “Sacred Australia” Group, together with some of the friends of “David’s House” gathered with me and my two daughters (Hannah and Helen) at the Botanic Gardens for a late Christmas Lunch. Here is the gathered community (minus Ted who went walkabout)[and remember to click 2 or 3 times on each image…
Christmas Day in the 'Tanic Gardens
Some of the C “Sacred Australia” Group, together with some of the friends of “David’s House” gathered with me and my two daughters (Hannah and Helen) at the Botanic Gardens for a late Christmas Lunch. Here is the gathered community (minus Ted who went walkabout)[and remember to click 2 or 3 times on each image…
Christmas Day in the ‘Tanic Gardens
Some of the C “Sacred Australia” Group, together with some of the friends of “David’s House” gathered with me and my two daughters (Hannah and Helen) at the Botanic Gardens for a late Christmas Lunch. Here is the gathered community (minus Ted who went walkabout)[and remember to click 2 or 3 times on each image…
Final public performance of "Away" by the C Students
This is tonight at 5.30 pm at 141 Harrington Street, The Rocks…. all welcome… go down to the quay end of George Street… turn Left (facing towards the quay) up Grosvenor Street and the Right into Harrington… 141 is near the corner… MG…. be there or be square….
Final public performance of “Away” by the C Students
This is tonight at 5.30 pm at 141 Harrington Street, The Rocks…. all welcome… go down to the quay end of George Street… turn Left (facing towards the quay) up Grosvenor Street and the Right into Harrington… 141 is near the corner… MG…. be there or be square….
Dress Rehearsal of Michael Gow's Away at Wahroonga
Yesterday (Sunday) our Cgroup (Sacred Australia) were invited to present their Christmas Play (Michael Gow’s Away) to the Quakers at their “Friends Meeting House” in Wahroonga. This was a wonderful occasion at which our drama group performed to a capacity crowd with the Wahroonga Bushland singing through the windows behind the stage: The Quakers were…
Dress Rehearsal of Michael Gow's Away at Wahroonga
Yesterday (Sunday) our Cgroup (Sacred Australia) were invited to present their Christmas Play (Michael Gow’s Away) to the Quakers at their “Friends Meeting House” in Wahroonga. This was a wonderful occasion at which our drama group performed to a capacity crowd with the Wahroonga Bushland singing through the windows behind the stage: The Quakers were…
Dress Rehearsal of Michael Gow’s Away at Wahroonga
Yesterday (Sunday) our Cgroup (Sacred Australia) were invited to present their Christmas Play (Michael Gow’s Away) to the Quakers at their “Friends Meeting House” in Wahroonga. This was a wonderful occasion at which our drama group performed to a capacity crowd with the Wahroonga Bushland singing through the windows behind the stage: The Quakers were…
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C Students studying Sacred Australia….
Students taking part in this course Sacred Australia through the VV and CO have been keeping their own LiveJournal Literature Blog as part of their course requirement. The C Program is an innovative series of courses designed to help into University entry those who for a range of reasons have found access to higher education…
C Students begin rehearsals for Michael Gow's "Away".
What a fabulous beginning to our rehearsals for Michael Gow’s play “Away”: thank you all C crew for your attendance and diligence. And thanks especially to John G who has come on board again to direct this motley crew and transform them into “star” material. Of course this is an amazingly appropriate play for the…
C Students begin rehearsals for Michael Gow's "Away".
What a fabulous beginning to our rehearsals for Michael Gow’s play “Away”: thank you all C crew for your attendance and diligence. And thanks especially to John G who has come on board again to direct this motley crew and transform them into “star” material. Of course this is an amazingly appropriate play for the…
C Students begin rehearsals for Michael Gow’s “Away”.
What a fabulous beginning to our rehearsals for Michael Gow’s play “Away”: thank you all C crew for your attendance and diligence. And thanks especially to John G who has come on board again to direct this motley crew and transform them into “star” material. Of course this is an amazingly appropriate play for the…
Australian Hong-Kong LiveJournal Exchange
Fantastic news folks- all those who volunteered to be part of the Hong-Kong / Australia LiveJournal Creative Exchange should hear something from your Hong-Kong Colleagues very shortly. If you don’t then please let me know and I can try to help with the connections. Just for information this is what the Hong-Kong group received from…
Marking Finished!
Hi All…. out of the sweat shop finally. Marking has now finished and results are now in. A few of you have commented that you can’t access WebCT any more. I have rectified that. So please revisit WebCT and check out results, returned assignments etc. Those students who have put forward their interest in interacting…
Art Gallery Visit- VV – Sacred Australia
Week Seven of Sacred Australia with the group of students at Vincentian Village (now temporarily relocated to Charles O’Neill) brought us to the NSW Art Gallery where we explored images of the Sacred in Australian painting across 2 centuries… It was a wonderful animated group that provided many insights into the paintings. Here, at the…
VV Week 6- The Desert and the Suburbs
From the bottom left around the table clockwise: Hi John (Johannes!), Luke, Shayne, Tania, Michael, George, Rosemary, Ian and Anissa. We have been temporarily moved from our site at Vincentian Village because internet access was suddenly cut. So here in upper Crown Street in the Charles O’Neill Men’s refuge we have found a wonderful location…
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