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Darling Downs Branch News

Office Bearers


Rohan Davis	Linda Creedon	Kriss Menzies	Kathleen Hannant
President	Vice-President	Secretary	Treasurer

Branch News from Townsville

Office Bearers


Heather Fraser	Alison LLoyd	Emma Monfries	Kiri Lucas
President	Vice President	Secretary	Treasurer

Townsville Branch is planning to host the JCU Spectacular on 25th July 2020 when Dr Emma Maguire will present a workshop on Creative Writing and Dr Claire Hansen will present a workshop on teaching Macbeth.

Southern Cross Catholic College will present a Resource Sharing workshop on 17th October, 2020

Upcoming Events

Short Stories and Poetry

The transformation of text is demanding and difficult, but it is also often a thing of beauty. General English Unit three requires students to transform a poem into a short story, which requires us to guide them through this process. Using poems as stimulus for short story is inspiring and energising and this workshop will offer practical a...

Category:		Zoom meeting
Start Time:		9:00 AM
Date:		Saturday 12th February 2022
Venue:		ZOOM
Email Enquiries:		adminofficer@etaq.org.au

March Masterclass 2022

We are delighted to announce our first event for 2022 will be the March Masterclass: Writing: Our future to be held on Saturday 12 March 2022 at Iona College, Lindum, when Dr Sally Humphrey, senior lecturer (Literacy Education) ACU will present the keynote address. The program will be available by 28 January and registrations will open ...

Category:		Master class
Start Time:		8:30 AM
Date:		Saturday 12th March 2022
Venue:		Iona College

May Seminar 2022

The May seminar Writing our future ... will respond to developments in the text list, National Curriculum and NAPLAN. Keynotes will be presented by Lisa Bottomly and Sophie Johnson, from QCAA with supporting workshops on the new additions to the text list.

Category:		Seminar
Start Time:		9:00 AM
Date:		Saturday 14th May 2022
Venue:		To be confirmed

JCU Spectacular 2022

Join Dr Claire Hansen for a two-hour session on teaching Macbeth. We'll dive into an exploration of the language of Macbeth and teaching strategies to engage students with Shakespeare's Scottish play. The workshop will also explore learning activites for Macbeth created by the Shakespeare Reloaded project. For further details, see the...

Category:		Seminar
Start Time:		9:00 AM
Date:		Saturday 28th May 2022
Venue:		ZOOM

Indigenous Perspectives in the Junior Curriculuk

After a work program review Town High explored ways to better embed indigenous perspectives in the year 7 program through a novella study of Black Cockatoo. The unit became our first taste of analytical essay writing in year 7, in preparation for subsequent years. We found greater engagement from students across the board. ...