Scotch College

Events and Special Guests

2007 Sir John Monash Memorial Lecture

Acclaimed Australian writer, David Malouf, presented the keynote address over dinner at the inaugural Sir John Monash Memorial Lecture on Monday 27th August. More information ('76k) can be found in the letter to parents.

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2007

Scotch English Excel – VCE Holiday Workshops

In recent years we have introduced a series of holiday lectures and workshops for VCE English exam revision called “Scotch English Excel – VCE Holiday Workshops”. The lectures and workshops are all held here at Scotch over two days at the end of the upcoming September holidays on Friday 5th and Saturday 6th October. We only present on a selection of texts and both parts of the writing task which, while being particularly useful for Scotch boys, may be of interest to students from other schools as well. They are “open to the public.” If you wish to attend, all you have to do is complete the booking sheet and send it along with payment to the address as indicated. The deadline for booking is Friday 7th September 2007.

Friday 5th October

Session 1	9 – 10.15am	Lantana LECTURE
Session 2	10.30 – 11.45am	Lantana WORKSHOP
Session 3	12 – 1.15pm	Hamlet LECTURE or
	12 – 1.15pm	The Quiet American LECTURE
Session 4	2 – 3.15pm	Hamlet WORKSHOP or
	2 – 3.15pm	The Quiet American WORKSHOP

Saturday 6th October

Session 1	9 – 10.15am	Writing Task Part 1 + 2 (Analysis & Response)
	9 – 10.15am	LECTURE
Session 2	10.30 – 11.45am	Writing Task Part 1 (Analysis) WORKSHOP or
	10.30 – 11.45am	Writing Task Part 2 (Response) WORKSHOP
Session 3	12 – 1.15pm	Hamlet LECTURE (Repeat) or
	12 – 1.15pm	The Quiet American LECTURE (Rpt) or
Session 4	2 – 3.15pm	Hamlet WORKSHOP (Repeat) or
	2 – 3.15pm	The Quiet American WORKSHOP (Rpt) or

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2007 Literature Festival

Program of events and timetable

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Archive of past events

2006

Scotch English Excel VCE holiday workshops

Friday 29th and Saturday 30th September

A series of voluntary holiday lectures and workshops aimed at consolidating and extending the various skills and knowledge required for the VCE English examinations was held at Scotch College.

Lectures and Workshops were held for the following:

• Gattaca
• Hamlet
• Quiet American
• Paul Kelly
• Writing Task Part 1 + 2 (Analysis & Response)
• Writing Task Part 2 (Response)

Public Speaking Workshops with Judith Field

In July, all Year 8 English classes attended consecutive individual workshops with acclaimed speaking coach, Mrs Judith Field. .

Felix Riebl confronts Hamlet

Old-boy (’99) and lead singer of the internationally acclaimed band, The Cat Empire, Felix Riebl gave a special presentation on Hamlet to Year 12 boys at lunchtime on Friday 26th May. .

 
 

“Songs, Sonnets and Rock and Roll” – Shakespeare Festival

On Thursday 2nd March, the English Department hosted this unique performance of ‘the music of Shakespeare’s poetry and language through contemporary and traditional music, recital, anecdote and dramatic readings. The acclaimed actor, and spookily bard-like, Richard Piper, enlisted the help of his ‘friends’ from the Melbourne Theatre Company (Kate Kendall, Julie Nihill, Rod Mullinar and Luciano Martucci) and some of Australia’s most acclaimed musicians (Wendy Stapleton, Paul Norton, Greg Ham and Gerry Hale), to take his audience on a journey into the beauty and fun of language and lyric. .

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2005

Professor James Simpson – Literature Workshops

The English Department hosted a visit by Professor James Simpson (’71) from Harvard University. Prof Simpson is currently Professor of English and American Literature there. Prior to this he was Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge University. Throughout the day, Literature students from Years 10, 11 and 12 participated in several workshops covering subjects as diverse as Shakespeare, The Great Gatsby, Chaucer and War Poetry. .

 
 

VCE Literature Day

The new VCAA Chief Examiner for VCE Literature, Mrs Margaret Smith joined forces with some recent Scotch Old Boys - Tom Kelly (04), Andrew Kemp (04), Anthony Kung (04) - to run special after-school seminars entitled “Why Literature is Great” and “How to prepare for the VCE Literature Exam”. .

 

Scotch College Literature Festival – “Story Matters”

Archive of programme, presenters and special events conducted during the week.

Media Conference with John Schwartz

In August, John Schwartz, Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications at Swinburne University of Technology delivered a lecture at Scotch introducing VCE Media students from Scotch, MLC, Haileybury, Overtown Newton College, and Our Lady of Sion to the major theories of media influence developed during the 20th Century.

Professor Jeff Hiller – Literature workshops

In Term 3, Professor Jeff Hiller from Monash University presented special workshops in Year 12 Literature classes extending their understanding of various core VCE texts.