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Suggestions for Related Material
This thread is for members to share suggestions for related material for the Area of Study, Belonging. Feel free to post ideas for texts as well as links to sources which have lists of suggested materials.
To get the thread started, here are some sites which have some suggestions
for related material.
:
Museum of London: Belonging
http://www.adamstrainor.com/site3.0/...belonging.html
This is a thought-provoking multimedia exhibition that was staged at
the Museum of London in 2007. It challenged many of the assumptions
about refugees and explored the contributions they have made to London.
Website: Scattered People
http://brisbane-stories.powerup.com.au/scatteredpeople/
Scattered People is a photo documentary that was developed over six
months. It tells the story of three families and their plight as refugees.
Website: Brisbane stories
http://brisbane-stories.powerup.com.au
This website has a large range of stories about living in Brisbane.
It has images, stories and oral recollections by people living in and
around Brisbane.
Website: Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission
Voices of Australia
http://www.hreoc.gov.au/education/voices/index.html
Voices of Australia was developed in recognition of 30 years of the
Racial Discrimination Act 1975 by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity
Commission. It features many different stories about Australian, and
reminds us that we are a society of many diverse communities. It has
audio stories, music, photographs and information about Australia.
Website: Film Australia: Digital learning
Digital learning: Sense of Belonging
Sense of Belonging - History, Identity
This short film is about the journey of descendants of ni-Vanuatu workers
back to their homeland. They had come to work in the Queensland sugar
industry in the 1930s and are now building a Pacific Islander museum
to preserve their identity and heritage.
Source: NEALS
Suggestions from other members:
- i don't know whether it's a good idea, but you could actually use mean girls... there are plenty of social groups and stuff etc it's sort of a struggle to belong.
- another you could use is the movie holes, i believe it's based on a novel too
- my place by sally morgan, if it isn't still a prescribed text.
- 'I am Australian' the song
* Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck
*First they Killed My Father - Luong Ung
*The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith - Thomas Keneally
*Desire Under the Elms - Eugene O'Neill
* The Tempest - William Shakespeare
* Belonging - Jeannie Baker. Walker (picture book)
*An imaginary Life - David Malouf
*Antigone - Sophocles
*Away - Micheal Gow
*Cloudstreet - Tim Winton
*Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
*Hachet - Gary Paulsen
*Inside Black Australia - Kevin Gilbert
*Norm the Onion - Wendy Orr
*Raw - Scott Monk
*Six Degrees of Seperation - John Guare
*The Club - David Williamson
*The Shoehorn Sonata - John Misto
*Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
*Wild Swans - Jung Chang
*The Mysteries of Belonging - Marjorie Salvodon
*Boss of the Pool - Robin Klein
*Colin and the Snoozebox - Leigh Hodgkinson
*Digger J Jones - Richard J Frankland
*Fancy Nancy - Jane O'Connor
*Freckleface Strawberry - Julianne Moore
*Getting It - Alex Sanchez
*Great Joy - Kate DiCamillo
*Mutt Dog - Stephen Michael King
*Not Old Enough - Charlotte Middleton
*The Rope Ladder - Nigel Richardson
*Two Tough Teddies - Kilmerry Niland
- http://www.stonesoup.com/writing/193
This thread is for members to share suggestions for related material for the Area of Study, Belonging. Feel free to post ideas for texts as well as links to sources which have lists of suggested materials.
To get the thread started, here are some sites which have some suggestions
for related material.
- Belonging and the Area of Study: this site has a list of suggested fiction and non-fiction books as well as films.
- Infocus: has some suggested texts.
- e-rudite HSC Belonging: this site has a list of suggested texts as well as a definition of belonging and other information.
- Hurstville Library: this document has a list of suggested related texts.
- Inside Break: this site has a large list of suggested related texts.
- Anne Plowman: this is a list of suggested belonging picture books.
- Sue Bognar: a list of suggested belonging texts from various sources.
- The Chimaera: includes an assortment of poetry and prose focusing on various aspects of belonging, including its negative form, alienation.
- www.hscbelonging.com
:
Museum of London: Belonging
http://www.adamstrainor.com/site3.0/...belonging.html
This is a thought-provoking multimedia exhibition that was staged at
the Museum of London in 2007. It challenged many of the assumptions
about refugees and explored the contributions they have made to London.
Website: Scattered People
http://brisbane-stories.powerup.com.au/scatteredpeople/
Scattered People is a photo documentary that was developed over six
months. It tells the story of three families and their plight as refugees.
Website: Brisbane stories
http://brisbane-stories.powerup.com.au
This website has a large range of stories about living in Brisbane.
It has images, stories and oral recollections by people living in and
around Brisbane.
Website: Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission
Voices of Australia
http://www.hreoc.gov.au/education/voices/index.html
Voices of Australia was developed in recognition of 30 years of the
Racial Discrimination Act 1975 by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity
Commission. It features many different stories about Australian, and
reminds us that we are a society of many diverse communities. It has
audio stories, music, photographs and information about Australia.
Website: Film Australia: Digital learning
Digital learning: Sense of Belonging
Sense of Belonging - History, Identity
This short film is about the journey of descendants of ni-Vanuatu workers
back to their homeland. They had come to work in the Queensland sugar
industry in the 1930s and are now building a Pacific Islander museum
to preserve their identity and heritage.
Source: NEALS
Suggestions from other members:
- i don't know whether it's a good idea, but you could actually use mean girls... there are plenty of social groups and stuff etc it's sort of a struggle to belong.
- another you could use is the movie holes, i believe it's based on a novel too
- my place by sally morgan, if it isn't still a prescribed text.
- 'I am Australian' the song
* Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck
*First they Killed My Father - Luong Ung
*The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith - Thomas Keneally
*Desire Under the Elms - Eugene O'Neill
* The Tempest - William Shakespeare
* Belonging - Jeannie Baker. Walker (picture book)
*An imaginary Life - David Malouf
*Antigone - Sophocles
*Away - Micheal Gow
*Cloudstreet - Tim Winton
*Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
*Hachet - Gary Paulsen
*Inside Black Australia - Kevin Gilbert
*Norm the Onion - Wendy Orr
*Raw - Scott Monk
*Six Degrees of Seperation - John Guare
*The Club - David Williamson
*The Shoehorn Sonata - John Misto
*Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
*Wild Swans - Jung Chang
*The Mysteries of Belonging - Marjorie Salvodon
*Boss of the Pool - Robin Klein
*Colin and the Snoozebox - Leigh Hodgkinson
*Digger J Jones - Richard J Frankland
*Fancy Nancy - Jane O'Connor
*Freckleface Strawberry - Julianne Moore
*Getting It - Alex Sanchez
*Great Joy - Kate DiCamillo
*Mutt Dog - Stephen Michael King
*Not Old Enough - Charlotte Middleton
*The Rope Ladder - Nigel Richardson
*Two Tough Teddies - Kilmerry Niland
- http://www.stonesoup.com/writing/193
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