Anyone going to VATE english tomorrow?

[98.40_for_sure]

Was it just me... or was her analysis (2/3 stolen) that she based her lecture on, just absolute shit and replicating something of that standard would not be a 10?

[Slumdawg]

I got A, thank god, he was good but he made me realise how crap I am.
Insanely jealous of scotch now.
I thought the context guy was a bit too broad and emphasized imaginative pieces alot...

Oh how I envy you.
I really liked the stuff he said on jindabyne that was really helpful. He should have discussed the texts more and less on the other general stuff everybody knows.

I mean if you don't know the forms are expository, persuasive and imaginative this late in the year then you probably won't learn it in a lecture. I think lecturers need to pick up their game. English teachers always harp on about how we need to write for an "informed audience" in our essays.. Well maybe they could start lecturing like we're an "informed audience" too. God if I hear one more mention of the vcaa website in a lecture I will strangle the lecturer with my bare hands.

Thank god today is the last lot of vce lectures I'm going too. At least I ended on a high note with the psych one which was actually good, VATE = VERY AVERAGE TEACHING of ENGLISH.

[iffets12345]

I got A, thank god, he was good but he made me realise how crap I am.
Insanely jealous of scotch now.
I thought the context guy was a bit too broad and emphasized imaginative pieces alot...

Oh how I envy you.
I really liked the stuff he said on jindabyne that was really helpful. He should have discussed the texts more and less on the other general stuff everybody knows.

I mean if you don't know the forms are expository, persuasive and imaginative this late in the year then you probably won't learn it in a lecture. I think lecturers need to pick up their game. English teachers always harp on about how we need to write for an "informed audience" in our essays.. Well maybe they could start lecturing like we're an "informed audience" too. God if I hear one more mention of the vcaa website in a lecture I will strangle the lecturer with my bare hands.

Thank god today is the last lot of vce lectures I'm going too. At least I ended on a high note with the psych one which was actually good, VATE = VERY AVERAGE TEACHING of ENGLISH.

lol maybe for you but I quite liked it .
I don't know, I am not sure how to "change" my expository so it doesn't so formulaic cause that's the way I do it...and the talk of the feature article seemed a bit stretched. Some of the ideas were a tad corny, and unoriginal even tho they stuck well to the prompt.

[Slumdawg]

Was it just me... or was her analysis (2/3 stolen) that she based her lecture on, just absolute shit and replicating something of that standard would not be a 10?

Yer the analysis didn't seem to be that amazing as she made it out to be. I think just cos she wrote it she thought it was the best thing on earth. Looked like a 9. Not 10 to me. It was good though. Just not the holy grail of analysis. Yer, you could tell most of the essay was from her students, she probably only just joined the two students' pieces - that was her contribution. Just physically joining the two on word or something.. She was just so arrogant. e.g. "I think the word 'claims' is the best to use here...Maybe you could think of a better one? I doubt it (smirk on her face)"

I was so tempted to just walk out cos it was so frustrating having to listen to her.

[crayolé]

Yeah, she tried to be funny. Every time she made a joke you couldn't even hear a courtesy chuckle.

WTF was up with her notes?
First of all, it was those gay powerpoint print outs that no one even bothers to look at or annotate. I could tell it was going to be bad as soon as I looked at the notes, should of just left whilst I had the chance
And second - I'm not even kidding here - every single page had the same fucking paragraph, just highlighted differently (which didn't even turn out with the black and white printing). Some glorified introduction that she was way too proud of

She's got a bad case of saggy nanna tits too  :buck2:

[Slumdawg]

I got A, thank god, he was good but he made me realise how crap I am.
Insanely jealous of scotch now.
I thought the context guy was a bit too broad and emphasized imaginative pieces alot...

Oh how I envy you.
I really liked the stuff he said on jindabyne that was really helpful. He should have discussed the texts more and less on the other general stuff everybody knows.

I mean if you don't know the forms are expository, persuasive and imaginative this late in the year then you probably won't learn it in a lecture. I think lecturers need to pick up their game. English teachers always harp on about how we need to write for an "informed audience" in our essays.. Well maybe they could start lecturing like we're an "informed audience" too. God if I hear one more mention of the vcaa website in a lecture I will strangle the lecturer with my bare hands.

Thank god today is the last lot of vce lectures I'm going too. At least I ended on a high note with the psych one which was actually good, VATE = VERY AVERAGE TEACHING of ENGLISH.

lol maybe for you but I quite liked it .
I don't know, I am not sure how to "change" my expository so it doesn't so formulaic cause that's the way I do it...and the talk of the feature article seemed a bit stretched. Some of the ideas were a tad corny, and unoriginal even tho they stuck well to the prompt.

Yer his sample responses were of a really high standard. But the possible ideas you could write on were so cliched. "Write an article of logging" I doubt it would score high marks unless it was done really really well. Yer I thought he would have focused more on expository cos that's what most of the people were actually doing.. I get what you mean though. It can be hard to be creative and finish in an hour. Most of my context essays are the same thing repeated over and over again.

[Slumdawg]

Yeah, she tried to be funny. Every time she made a joke you couldn't even hear a courtesy chuckle.

WTF was up with her notes?
First of all, it was those gay powerpoint print outs that no one even bothers to look at or annotate. I could tell it was going to be bad as soon as I looked at the notes, should of just left whilst I had the chance
And second - I'm not even kidding here - every single page had the same fucking paragraph, just highlighted differently (which didn't even turn out with the black and white printing). Some glorified introduction that she was way too proud of

She's got a bad case of saggy nanna tits too  :buck2:

hahahaaha. So true to all of that. At the end of exams I'm gonna write a letter of complaint about her. She does not deserve a job lecturing. Other students shouldn't be put through her crap. Yer the highlighting was completely useless. One of the people next to me wrote down: "Highlighters weren't invented until the lecturer was in her 20s" haha. I was in the front row. Oh god. It was horrible. I'm like... put your jacket back on. please?

Nobody laughed cos she was just a rude b****, just trying to be funny. I feel sorry for her students. Having to deal with that on a daily basis would be horrible.

[98.40_for_sure]

She's got a bad case of saggy nanna tits too  :buck2:

Mate... you loved it. As if you even looked there hahah

And she was extremely proud of her first sentence, went on about it for a good 10 minutes; "excitedly urgent call for action"
No examiner would immediately be convinced that the piece is a 10 from the get-go with vocab like that

which session were you in shiyali?

[iffets12345]

Yer his sample responses were of a really high standard. But the possible ideas you could write on were so cliched. "Write an article of logging" I doubt it would score high marks unless it was done really really well. Yer I thought he would have focused more on expository cos that's what most of the people were actually doing.. I get what you mean though. It can be hard to be creative and finish in an hour. Most of my context essays are the same thing repeated over and over again.

I thought nobody put their hand up for expository? I'm doing it because I can' risk imaginative I reckon. I seriously believed 95% of ppl in that room were doing it...at which point I thought "they're all either super smart or super pretentious about the quality of their writing." He should have but I think there's not much to say about expository, he just warned us about being mechanical, so now I have to shuffle my paras around and stuff *shrug*.

[Slumdawg]

She's got a bad case of saggy nanna tits too  :buck2:

Mate... you loved it. As if you even looked there hahah

And she was extremely proud of her first sentence, went on about it for a good 10 minutes; "excitedly urgent call for action"
No examiner would immediately be convinced that the piece is a 10 from the get-go with vocab like that

which session were you in shiyali?

The middle one (session two). If you were in that one, I was the one she yelled at for supposedly talking the whole time when I only said one thing when she wasn't even talking herself, bloody guy behind me. Took the blame. It was noble of me..haha Seems like she left a bad impression on everyone. When I first read the sentence I thought she was giving us an example of what not to do.. I thought you usually started with a discussion of the broad issue.. That opening sentence screamed like 8. No way 10. What the hell is wrong with her.

[Slumdawg]

Yer his sample responses were of a really high standard. But the possible ideas you could write on were so cliched. "Write an article of logging" I doubt it would score high marks unless it was done really really well. Yer I thought he would have focused more on expository cos that's what most of the people were actually doing.. I get what you mean though. It can be hard to be creative and finish in an hour. Most of my context essays are the same thing repeated over and over again.

I thought nobody put their hand up for expository? I'm doing it because I can' risk imaginative I reckon. I seriously believed 95% of ppl in that room were doing it...at which point I thought "they're all either super smart or super pretentious about the quality of their writing." He should have but I think there's not much to say about expository, he just warned us about being mechanical, so now I have to shuffle my paras around and stuff *shrug*.

Nar like 1/3 put their hands up. Everyone behind you did. So you probably didn't see. Yer imaginative = risky. I saw there was a blind girl in the lecture. That would have been so difficult for her. I can't even begin to imagine her situation. I thought she'd be doing auslan? Can you write in brail in the exam? I was so confused.

[98.40_for_sure]

Lol you should have argued with her, although it seems it's impossible to win, she's just too loud
I don't like old lecturers, they seem to think they know what they're doing, but it's the people that recently finished vce that can relate to you and give the best advice. Being an assessor for 20 years and teaching at a school that charges 30k a year does not make you a good teacher/lecturer imo.
I think i'm in love with derrick ha...

[Slumdawg]

Lol you should have argued with her, although it seems it's impossible to win, she's just too loud
I don't like old lecturers, they seem to think they know what they're doing, but it's the people that recently finished vce that can relate to you and give the best advice. Being an assessor for 20 years and teaching at a school that charges 30k a year does not make you a good teacher/lecturer imo.
I think i'm in love with derrick ha...

derrick ha = god. hahaha
I was so close to yelling back at her. But I decided to remain cool and calm. I knew she would just not shut up if I did. And she'd use all her english crap to argue with me..rhetoric (excuse me?)... inclusive language (we're all trying to gain an understanding of language analysis and you're disrupting all of us)... appeal to the hit pocket nerve (people here have paid good money for my lecture and not for you to be talking during it)... The list is endless. I bet she would have done something annoying like that, and I just wanted to leave so I just said "yer" gave her a death stare and left.. Younger lecturers are so much better. They just tell you what the teachers are too scared to say.

[98.40_for_sure]

Hahahah there is not one person that does not love derrick ha, the guy is amazing.
All the lecturers come from fancy schools. Imagine paying a fortune each year... and to end up having her for your final year of english. I really hope she does not mark my exam... she seems to be one of those people that have a checklist in their head. Context? Yes. Tone? Yes. Form? No, -1 mark.

[m@tty]

She's got a bad case of saggy nanna tits too  :buck2:

Mate... you loved it. As if you even looked there hahah

And she was extremely proud of her first sentence, went on about it for a good 10 minutes; "excitedly urgent call for action"
No examiner would immediately be convinced that the piece is a 10 from the get-go with vocab like that

which session were you in shiyali?

Does "excitedly urgent" even make sense? Excitedly seems unnecessary here and the expression just sounds awkward.

The essay is all that she gave us, and it is a disappointment. Sigh.