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HSC: Area of Study

The Area of Study for  HSC 2009 - 2012 is Belonging.

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Suggestions for related material

Note #1: When choosing related material, you don't need to find a 'match'; you just need to be able to make connections (similarities and differences in experience) between the prescribed text and your chosen related material. 'Belonging' is - and this is an oversimplification -about relationships between people and/or places. These relationships can be positive and negative and they have an impact on self esteem and the development of identity. You need to define the nature of 'belonging' in your text and find another text - not the same text type - that allows you to make connections.

Note #2: Some texts will allow you to show what you can do better than others. Don't choose a text because you've liked it forever, it's easy, it's a film or a picture book or someone gave it to you. Put some thought into it. There are some excellent films and some wonderful picture books. A more challenging text will provide more depth of ideas and more rewarding techniques.

The texts:

The Crucible Romulus, My Father The Namesake
Ten Canoes Peter Skrzynecki The Joy Luck Club
Strictly Ballroom    

What does belonging mean?

From the Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus:

belong, verb,

1 to be rightly put into a particular position or class;

2 fit or be acceptable in a particular place or environment;

3 belong to be a member of;

4 belong to be the property or possession of.

belonging, noun, affiliation, acceptance, association, attachment, integration, closeness, rapport, fellow feeling, fellowship

antonym: alienate, verb

1 cause to feel isolated

2 lose the support or sympathy

Synonyms for alienate, verb, estrange, divide, distance, put at a distance, isolate, cut off, set against, turn away, drive apart, disunite, set at odds/variance, drive a wedge between.

This website will give you 'a vocabulary' to use for 'belonging'. (Just scroll down.) It's not a good idea to use the same words all the time and by using a variety of aptly chosen words you are demonstrating your understanding of the concept.

http://www.insidebreak.org.au/category/belonging/

From the 2009 - 2012 Prescriptions document:

http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/syllabus_hsc/pdf_doc/english-prescription-09-12.pdf

Context plays a role in the perception of belonging (or not belonging and all the shades in-between):

  •      personal context refers to those elements that are one's own, individual and private
  •      cultural context is complex and refers generally to way of life, lifestyle, customs, traditions, heritage, habits - civilisation. More specifically, it refers to intellectual and artistic awareness, education and discernment. Popular culture refers to the Arts, the humanities, intellectual achievement, literature, music, painting and philosophy.
  •      historical context refers to the factual and documented evidence of a set time, either of the composer and/or the text.
  •      social context refers to the larger community or group, its organisation or hierachy. It also refers to that which is civil, public and of society at large.

Context and the sense of belonging that comes from it contributes to a sense of identity, our relationships and processes of acceptance and understanding.

We get a sense of belonging (or not belonging and all the degree of belonging in-between) through interaction with:

  •      people, including groups and broader communities, and,
  •      places 

Students are expected to explore through the study of their texts:

  • aspects of belonging, including the potential of the individual to enrich or challenge a community or group.
  • the way attitudes to belonging are modified over time
  • choices not to belong, or barriers which prevent belonging

Students are expected to become to :

  • develop their own understanding of the concept of belonging through their engagement with texts
  • become aware of the construction of perceptions and ideas of belonging
  • discover the underlying assumptions contained in texts
  • deconstruct the representation of belonging - people, relationships, ideas as well as the places, events and societies, by different composers through their use of language modes, forms, and their relevant structural forms and language features
  • engage personally with their texts and draw on their own experience
  • make connections to their perceptions of the world and the worlds represented in

Suggestions for related material

This link is to EDNA and provides reading lists of various kinds: http://www.groups.edna.edu.au/course/view.php?id=616

fiction non fiction poetry
song lyrics drama graphic novels and picture books
film online young adult fiction

Fiction

Christos Tsioklas, The Slap  (for mature readers)

Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

Monica Ali, Brick Lane     http://www.themanbookerprize.com/search

Kate Grenville, The Lieutenant

William Golding, Lord of the Flies

Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger

Steven Carroll, The Time We Have Taken

Tim Winton, Breath     http://breath.timwinton.com.au/

Peter Goldsworthy, The Maestro

Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clark HaHa      http://www.themanbookerprize.com/search

Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Day_in_the_Life_of_Ivan_Denisovich

Alan Paton, Cry, The beloved country    

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cry,_the_beloved_country

J D Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Catcher_in_the_Rye

Paul Gallico, The Snow Goose     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Snow_Goose

Markus Zusak, The Book Thief     http://www.panmacmillan.com.au/resources/MZ-TheBookThief.pdf

Toni Morrison, Beloved     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beloved_(novel)

John Le Carre, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold

Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Barry Hines, A Kestrel for a Knave    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Kestrel_for_a_Knave

Geraldine Brooks, March     http://www.geraldinebrooks.com/march.html

V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas

Lionel Shriver, We Need To Talk About Kevin     http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides3/we_need_talk_kevin2.asp     

Alice Sebold  , The Lovely Bones     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lovely_Bones

Khaled Hoseini, The Kite Runner     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kite_Runner

Yann Martel, The Life of Pi     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_of_Pi

Louis Sachar, Holes     http://www.louissachar.com/HolesBook.htm

Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Curious_Incident_of_the_Dog_in_the_Night-time

Drusilla Modjeska, The Orchard

Bernard Schlink, The Reader

Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden

Young adult fiction

  • John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (also a film to be released in 2009)
  • Benjamin Zephaniah, Refugee Boy
  • Amit Chaudhuri, A New World
  • Suzanne Gervais, That's Why I Wrote This song (lyrics and video make this multimedia)
  • kathy Lette, Puberty Blues (also a film)
  • Scott Monk, Raw
  • Maureen McCarthy, The In-Between series
  • Maureen McCarthy, Queen Kat and St Jude
  • Ting-xing Ye, Throwaway Daughter

  • Abdel-Fattah, Randa, Does my head look big in this

  • Beale, Fleur, Juno of Taris

  • Bilkuei, Cola, Cola's Journey

  • Hayes, Rosemary, Mixing it

  • Laird, Elizabeth, A little piece of ground

  • Sis, Peter, The Wall: growing up behind the Iron curtain

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Non fiction

Poetry

  • Belonging, New Poetry by Iranians Around the World, Edited by Niloufar Talebi
  • Joseph's Coat: An anthology of multicultural writing, Peter Skryznecki
  • Wole Soyinka, "The Telephone Conversation"   http://www.nexuslearning.net/books/Elements_of_Lit_Course6/20th%20Century/Collection%2015/TelephoneConversation.htm
  • Robert Gray, "Journey: the North coast", "Boarding House Blues", "Emptying the Desk" from Selected New Poems
  • Kate Jennings, Couples
  • W H Auden, "Refugee Blues" http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/refugee-blues/
  • Bobbi Sykes, "Ambrose", "Monopoly"
  • Kenneth Slessor, "William Street"
  • Robert Gray, "The Late Ferry"
  • Seamus Heaney, "Clearances"
  • Les Murray, "The Conquest", "An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow"
  • Fay Zwicky, "Letting go"
  • Sylvia Plath, "Kindness", "The Applicant"
  • Bruce Dawe, "Drifters"
  • Adrienne Rich, "Mother-Right", "After Twenty Years"
  • Oodgeroo Noonuccal, "We Are Going", "colour Bar"
  • Gwen Harwood, "Suburban Sonnet", "Father and Child", "Class of 1927"
  • Robert Frost, "The Mending Wall"
  • Judith Wright, "Brothers and sisters", "Australia 1970"

This website is useful for getting etext of poems out of copyright and it has a search facility: http://www.poemhunter.com/

Drama

Graphic novels and picture books

  • Tales from Outer Suburbia, Shaun Tan
  • The Island, Greder Armin
  • Memorial, Gary Crew and Shaun Tan
  • Way Home, Libby Hathorn and Gregory Rogers
  • My Place, Nadia Wheatley and Donna Rawlins
  • Belonging, Jeannie Baker
  • Window, Jeannie Baker
  • The Arrival, Shaun Tan
  • Possum Magic, Mem Fox
  • Ten Little fingers and Ten Little Toes, Mem Fox and Helen Oxenbury

  • Almond, David, The Savage

Film

  • The Boys are Back, dir. Scott Hicks

  • Genova, dir. Michael Winterbottom

  • Nowhere Boy, dir. Sam Taylor Wood

  • Up In the Air, dir. Jason Reitman

  • An Education, dir. Lone sherfig

  • Mary and Max, dir. Adam Elliot

  • Milk, dir. Gus Van Sant

  • Gran Torino, dir. Clint Eastwood

  • Slumdog Millionaire, dir. Danny Boyle

  • Australia, dir. Baz Luhrmann - It does it really well in a very entertaining way.

  • Suddenly, dir. Johan Brisinger

  • Big Fish, dir. Tim Burton

  • Brick Lane, dir. Sarah Gavron
  • Edward Scissorhands, dir. Tim Burton
  • Home Song Stories, dir. Tony Ayers
  • The December Boys, dir. Rod Hardy
  • Rabbit Proof Fence, Phillip Noyce
  • Once Were Warriors, dir. Lee Tamahori
  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, dir. Julian Schnabel
  • Girl Interrupted, dir. James Mangold
  • When Did You Last See Your Father, dir. Anand Tucker
  • As It Is In Heaven, dir. Kay Pollack
  • My Life as a Dog, dir. Lasse Halstrom
  • High Tide, dir. Gillian Armstrong
  • The Italian, dir. Andrei Kravchuck
  • Little Miss Sunshine, dir. Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
  • Look Both Ways, dir. Sarah Watt
  • Somersault, dir. Cate Shortland
  • Monsoon Wedding, dir. Mira Nair
  • In America, dir. Jim Sheridan
  • Whale Rider, dir. Niki Caro
  • Swimming Upstream, dir. Russell Mulcahy

Song Lyric

Note: Song lyrics, however much you love the song, may not be your strongest choice in terms of depth of ideas for you to discuss and the variety of techniques used.

Treaty, Yothu Yindi
Beds are Burning, Midnight Oil

No Bravery, James Blunt.

So What, Pink
Stupid Girls, Pink

Belonging, Bread.
Oh Father, Madonna
This used to be my playground, Madonna
Don’t cry for me Argentina, Time Rice (You need context here.)

If I were a boy, Beyonce

Viva La Vida, Coldplay

Chasing Pavements, Adele

All across the world, Silverchair

Scar, Missy Higgins

Lyrics to Peter Allen's "I still call Australia home": http://www.lyrics007.com/print.php?id=TkRBNU1EZ3c

Online

An Australian government sponsored exhibition on the theme of belonging: http://www.belonging.org/ 

An interview with Jeannie Baker: http://www.jeanniebaker.com/focus_web/belonging_interview.htm
A book rap on Belonging by Jeannie Baker: http://www.schools.nsw.edu.au/raps/belonging/welcome.htm

An essay on belonging and exclusion (academic): http://www.manningclark.org.au/papers/belonging.htm

A SMH survey on 'belonging': http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/feeling-of-not-belonging-plagues-one-in-four-study-finds/2008/07/02/1214950851281.html


This page may help with defining the concept: http://www.abc.net.au/talkitup/chalkitup/peerculture.htm

From Australian Story, ABC television: I like this programme because it is the stories of Australians we may never otherwise know about or a different side to people of note. It is always about being human and often inspiring.

These are links to recent episodes that involve themes of belonging. The ABC provides transcripts, vodcasts and podcasts of it's more recent programmes. An excellent resource!

Actor Sam Johnson's story: http://www.abc.net.au/austory/specials/sumofsam/default.htm
 The Merry Makers, a successful dance group of physically and intellectually disabled people, also demonstrating the importance of belonging: http://www.merrymakers.com.au/
 

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