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02/08/2005: "Introducing students from Latrobe Secondary College!!!"

In Term 1 2005, 180 students from Latrobe Secondary College are participating in the 2005 Pop Fiction Youth e-Literature Event. It’s unique that students from all year levels are participating, including WAVE, VCAL & Year 12’s!
Here's a class of Year 7's

I’m ‘writer in residence’ whilst students make Pop Fiction artwork and multimedia related to To love Veronica Bee. Creations are showcased in bumble.com.au’s Hive and Honey Pot plus students add comments right here in the Buzz Room. At the end of Term 1, students’ creations are exhibited at the State Library of Victoria (March 14th-24th).

Click on ‘MORE’ to read about students I’ve met so far!
Click on ‘COMMENT’ to share what your class is up to or to read about what other classes are up to!

So what’s happened so far and who have I met?
In the first week of Term students settled into class, organized text books, timetables etc. So Week 2 was when my residency started. When I drop into a class, first thing we did was chat about pop culture and find out what people are into, like “music and movies and stuff”. We watched the ‘Pop Fiction Multimedia Performance’ to learn about ‘what is Pop Fiction’ and see how other students make Pop Fiction. Then we brainstorm a list of all the different kinds of artforms to get us thinking about our Pop Fiction. I usually get asked heaps of questions like “how old are you?” That’s when I say “it’s my birthday on Thursday and if you buy me a big chocolate cake then I’ll tell you how old I am!”.
Today is Tuesday so it’s the middle of Week 2. I’m still yet to meet WAVE and VCAL students (some have run out of class to say hello or have waved from the other side of the classroom window. I’m looking forward to meeting these guys coz they look like they’re full of beans). The cool thing about Latrobe is that every class is sooooooo different. Some classes are playful and loud, some classes are conscientious and right into it and some are shy to begin with.

When I first met the Year 7’s they were so busy reading TLVB that they didn’t even notice that I’d joined their class. I noticed that they used Veronica Bee stickers as bookmarks.
Year 8's asked me to draw Veronica's house at Yarra Valley and Kew. I'm not a vey good drawer so they ended up drawning a picture on the whiteboard for me! This is Veronica's house at Yarra Valley:

And this is Veronica's new house at Kew:

Year 8's brainstormed a list of themes, issues and symbols. Check out: Year8'sThemesIssuesSymbols Plus Pip has made a 3D Model of a bushfire just like the Waring bushfire that happens in To love Veronica Bee!

The Year 9’s and VCAL are way ahead of schedule. They’re already making Pop Fiction rockart which totally caught me by surprise. If you click on ‘COMMENTS’ you can read what they have to say about what they’re making!!

I don’t know about you guys, but I’m totally looking forward to Elf Tranzporter coming to Latrobe to perform his hip hop!! He’s also gonna give students ideas for how they can write lyrics about TLVB and help students record a Pop Fiction hip hop album.

Wicked!
See ya,
Sare

Replies: 9 Comments

on Tuesday, May 3rd, Emily Hinson said

on Tuesday, March 1st, nathan said

For pop-fiction our class is making an Altered Activity Book, so we are decorating old books to turn into the Activity book. We have been doing activities to put in our book, so far we have done 5 activities. Some are about people who we like and someone in To Love Veronica in footprints; the footprints are about a chosen character and write what they do in the story. We also did word searches about Veronica and wrote a Unicorn story.

on Thursday, February 17th, antheA JONES said

oh my god my best friends picture is up ere thanx sarah hugs and kisses anthea

on Thursday, February 17th, christie said

yea

on Monday, February 14th, christie said

oh my god my pic is in here thanks sarah

on Tuesday, February 8th, Kane Price said

We started to paint the rocks because in the book Veronica and her best friend Suze do the same thing because Veronica is moving to Kew so we are doing the same thing.. We went to our school car park to get a rock for us to paint, we only had 5 minutes to get one but in the end we all managed to get one.. Today we just painted our rocks one colour mine is a blue colour.. Miss Stafford our English teacher made us hurry up! I think the book is GOOD! and hope the rest of the book is the same as the start!

on Tuesday, February 8th, Shadow (Emily!) said

We have been painting rocks like in the book! Its been fun, and i hope we have more artistic things to do! Im thinking of a poem to write about the book!

on Tuesday, February 8th, Morgana said

I reckon Pop Fiction is a great idea too. The fact that alot of the work is hands on rocks! I reckon it will be a bit of a circus as well.

on Tuesday, February 8th, Nicole Brennan said

Im in year 9 and our class has started to paint and decorate rocks that we collected.
So far Sarah Boland has visited La Trobe Secondary twice and says she enjoys coming to our class and she is going to becoming to our school for the whole term.
So Sarah keep up the good work!!!!
Hugs and Kisses Nicole