YEAR TWELVE WHAT - Australian Theatre Assessment, Week 1 (T4W6)

So this is our first assessment of Year 12, I guess.

I'm going to be doing weekly journals for this assessment, as I've been doing more frequently as of recent times. Just generally much easier to tackle. I mention this because this particular week, there was only a single class spent working on this assignment anyway.

So, moving on to the actual journal portion of this journal. Since this was entirely our first lesson with the assignment, the hour was spent mostly doing that kind of general coming-to-grips kind of stuff. We began by examining the sheet, taking a look at exactly what we needed to do and what the requirements were. Basically, we need to create a 'seminar' of about 12 minutes in length, incorporating 2 scenes from each of our 2 texts - Neighborhood Neighbourhood (it's an Australian text, remember) Watch and Stolen - discussing how Epic and Domestic issues were presented in each of them.

Complicated enough?

Karen and I...

Actually, it's worth mentioning my group members at this point. (I apologise for the stream-of-consciousness nature of these journals, but it helps me write them and also will help me read back through them when it comes time to do that for study.) So. My group is comprised of myself, Karen Nelapati and Kate MacLeod. Only three people, out of our class of eight. Something about preparing us for uneven numbers in GP groups or something. Anyway.

Kate was away on this particular week (and thus the entire 'week' of this journal), so Karen and I thought about how exactly to define Epic and Domestic issues - not just for the audience, but for ourselves as well. The concept we ended up with is that Epic Issues are, for lack of a better word (which certainly exists, but eludes me at this current moment), the large-scale issues; Domestic Issues are the smaller-scale results of these Epic issues.

Wow, this actually feels like a remarkably substantial post for a single hour of work. Don't get too excited though, it seems like a lot of description goes to the background information on any assessment so don't expect five times this much for each subsequent week.

--Not entirely sure how I got here,

Alexander