Ms. Dominico’s Year 12 VCE English Class

The most-excellent mind-map we made in class last week (which Ed thankfully made into a Word file for us) can be uploaded here:

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I really like the ideas you came up with regarding how the context “Whose Reality?” can be broken into groups of types of realities (mulitple, emotional, constructed, cultural) and then linked by aspects of the texts we’ve studied and discussed so far.

Good job, everyone!

Here is another prompt for you to write: 1) a written explanation and 2) a SAC response

PROMPT: ‘It’s not what we remember but rather how we choose to remember it’

Steps to Success:

1) Write your statement of explanation first (use the “triangle”: discuss the prompt, discuss how the prompt relates to the context “whose reality?” and the film ESSM, and then how your writing will discuss the ideas in the prompt as it relates to the context-film.

2) Write the piece of writing that addresses the ideas in your statement of explanation.

Do it for before Wednesday and I can give you some feedback before you do the actual SAC!

A written explanation would help!

“To see the importance of the written explanation (Insight p. 133) where the ideas generated from the text must be clearly explained in cases where the actual text is not mentioned by name in the response itself.” – Ms. Duffy

READ:
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1 Multiple realities ** NOTE: This is for Thursday May 15th’s Class — Your homework tonight is on “reality TV”
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Emotional reality versus literal reality
Two realities are presented in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The tangible and objective reality of the ‘real’ world of the text is contrasted with the realm of memory, emotions and subjectivity as revealed through Joel’s subconscious mind. The emotional reality recounted through memory is concerned with what is felt, with those things that cannot be proven to exist but are experienced as real. Here, the feelings associated with an event make it real, even if it only exists in dreams, observations or intuition.
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Tonight’s HW task:

TASK: Analyse the types reality as presented in some of the reality TV shows that you watch. Use Week 5’s Handout (from the Insight CD) to help you “name” these types of realities.
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Quotations:

** ‘Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.’ Philip K. Dick
** ‘Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.’ Albert Einstein
** ‘Are you sure that the floor can’t also be a ceiling?’ M.C. Escher
** ‘There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes and values.’ David G Myers, Social Psychology
** ‘There are no facts, only interpretations.’ Freidrich Nietzsche
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Some questions to consider:

1. What is reality?
2. Is there such a thing as objective reality, or does every individual’s perceptions of reality differ – a subjective reality?
3. How might we become aware that our perception of reality is not the same as another person’s?
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