A Major Conference English in Years 9 - 12 Make it Real! Teaching Shakespeare, Poetry and Drama with Purpose and Passion FRIDAY, 27 MARCH 2015 AGENDA 8.00 – 8.45 8.45 – 8.55 8.55 – 11.00 Session 1 Registration and Coffee Welcome to the day Housekeeping and introductions Making drama live in your classroom  Strategies and resources to engage students from Year 9 to the HSC  Plays old and new to suit your classes in Stage 5  Getting your students active: from page to stage  Strategies and tasks linked to implementing the new 7-10 syllabus  Explore new plays to program for Year 11  Ideas to engage Year 12 students to enhance their critical responses to HSC drama texts Presenter Kathy Deacon Director CPL Deb McPherson Jane Sherlock Jackie Manuel 11.00 – 11.25 Morning Tea and publishers’ display 11.25 – 1.00 Session 2 1.00-1.45 1.45 – 3.00 Session 3 Breathing life into poetry in the classroom Deb McPherson  Research into what works in the classroom Jackie Manuel  Ways to integrate poetry across your program Jane Sherlock  Strategies for making poetry relevant in your students’ lives  Innovative models to inspire your students to create multimodal representations of their own and others’ poetry  Ways to engage Year 12 students through the lens of “Discovery” Lunch and publishers’ display Shakespeare: Shaken and Stirred  Research and insight to an exciting new project: Shakespeare Reloaded  Years 9-10 and HSC syllabus links  Strategies to excite your students about Shakespeare  Technology to aid engagement with plays  Engaging, contemporary and powerful resources Deb McPherson Jackie Manuel Jane Sherlock