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Belonging Related Texts

 

See the introduction to this resource list for further information and approaches to support student selection of their own texts at http://www.curriculumsupport.education.nsw.gov.au/schoollibraries/teachingideas/belonging/index.htm

Prose fiction

 

Title

Author

Publication

date

* Published in Australia unless otherwise noted.

Review

Novels

 

 

 

Angela

Moloney, James

1998 

Scan database

Apache

Landman, Tanya

2007

 

Black water

Metzenthen, David

2007

Scan 26.4

Blackthorn

Pulford, Elizabeth

2008

 

Boofheads

Johnson, Mo

2008

 

Boy in the striped pyjamas, The

Boyne, John

UK, 2005

Scan 25.3

Catcher in the rye, The

Salinger, J D

USA, 1951

 

Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith, The

Keneally, Thomas

1972

 

Child in time, The

McEwan, Ian

UK, 1987

 

Child of time

Asimov, Isaac

1992

 

Chocolate war, The

Cormier, Robert

1975

 

Cider House rules, The

Irving, John

USA, 1985

 

Clan of the cave bear

Auel, Jean M.

1981

 

Cold skin

Herrick, Steven

2007

Scan 27.1

Color purple, The

Walker, Alice

USA, 1982

 

Daughter of the wind

Staples, Suzanne Fisher

UK, 1990

 

Deadly Unna?

Gwynne, Phillip

1998

Scan database

December boys, The

Noonan, Michael

1990

Scan 25.4

Dirt music

Winton, Tim

2001

Scan database

Divisadero

Ondaatje, Michael

UK, 2007

 

Does my head look big in this?

Abdel-Fattah, Randa

2005

Scan 25.1

Don't take your love to town

Ginibi, Ruby Langford

1988

 

Far country, A

Mason, Daniel

UK, 2007

 

Fearless

Lott, Tim

UK, 2007

Scan27.4

Feral kid

Hathorn, Libby

1994

 

Fly away Peter

Malouf, David

1982

 

Handmaid's tale, The

Atwood, Margaret

UK, 1986

 

Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone

Rowling, J. K.

UK, 1997

 

Havenstar

Noramly, Glenda

UK, 1999

 

Heart of darkness

Conrad, Joseph

UK, 1973

 

Hobbit, The

Tolkien, J. R. R.

1966

 

Homecoming

Voigt, Cynthia

1983

 

Hunchback of Notre Dame, The

Hugo, Victor

France, 1831

 

I am the cheese

Cormier, Robert

1977

 

Incognito

Carmichael, Claire

2000

Scan database

Inheritance

Chang, Lan Samantha

2005

 

Keeper

Peet, Mal

2003

 

Killer's tears, The

Bondoux, Anne-Laure

2006

Scan26.4

Kite runner, The

Hosseini, Khaled

USA, 2004

 

Knife never letting go, The

Ness, Patrick

UK, 2008

Scan27.4

Leaving Barrumbi

Norrington, Leonie

2007

Scan 27.3

Lockie Leonard, Human Torpedo

Winton, Tim

1990

 

Looking for Alibrandi

Marchetta, Melina

1992

 

Lord of the flies

Golding, William

UK, 1954

 

Love like water

McDonald, Meme

2007

Scan 27.3

Metamorphosis

Kafka, Franz

USA, 1946

 

Mister Pip

Jones, Lloyd

2006

Scan26.2

Mixing it

Hayes, Rosemary

2007

Scan 27.2

My brilliant career

Franklin, Miles

1901

 

Nineteen eighty-four

Orwell, George

UK, 1949

 

Of mice and men

Steinbeck, John

UK, 1937

 

One flew over the cuckoo's nest

Kesey, Ken

USA, 1962

 

Only the heart

Caswell, B. & Chiem, D.

1997

 

Other Side of Truth, The

Naidoo, Beverley

UK, 2000

 

Outcast, The

Bernard, Patricia

1997

Scan database

Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place, The

Konigsburg, E.L.

USA, 2004

Scan25.1

Outsider, The

Camus, Albert

UK, 1946

 

Outsiders, The

Hinton, S E

USA, 1967

 

Plague, The

Camus, Albert

UK, 1948

 

Power of one, The

Courtenay, Bryce

UK, 1989

 

Pox party, The

Anderson, M.T.

2006

 

Remembering Babylon

Malouf, David

1993

 

Riders, The

Winton, Tim

1994

 

Rouseabout, The

Treasure, Rachael

2007

 

Scarlet letter, The

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

1906

 

Secret River, The

Grenville, Kate

2005

 

Ten things I hate about me

Abdel-Fattah, Randa

2006

Scan26.2

That eye the sky

Winton, Tim

1986

 

Things fall apart

Achebe, Chinua

1962

 

Tigana

Kay, Guy Gavriel

1990

 

To kill a mockingbird

Lee, Harper

USA, 1960

 

Tomorrow when the war began

Marsden, John

1993

 

Under the persimmon tree

Staples, Suzanne Fisher

2006

Scan25.4

Under the same stars

Staples, Suzanne Fisher

2007

Scan28.1

Walking naked

Brugman, Alyssa

2002

Scan22.1

White earth, The

McGahan, Andrew

2004

 

Wild Cat Falling

Mudrooroo

1966

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Short stories

 

 

 

Black juice: Singing my sister down

Lanaghan, Margo

2004

Scan 23.4

Fig tree, The

Zable, Arnold

2002

 

Interpreter of maladies

Lahiri, Jhumpa

1999

 

Place on earth, A

Tredinnick, Mark (ed.)

2003

 

Songs of the suitcase

Dell'Oso, Anna Maria

1998

 

Tales from outer suburbia

Tan, Shaun

2008

 

True blue?: on being Australian

Goldsworthy, Peter (ed.)

2008

Scan 27.2

Turning, The

Winton, Tim

2006

 

 

Drama

 

Title

Author

Publication date

Review

Away

Gow, Michael

1986

 

Box the pony

Rankin, S. & Purcell, L.

1999

Scan database

Caucasian chalk circle, The

Brecht, Bertolt

1972

 

Club, The

Williamson, David

1978

 

Dreamers, The

Davis, Jack

1982

 

Heartbreak kid, The

Barrett, Richard

1988

 

No sugar

Davis, Jack

1986

 

Othello

Shakespeare, William

2003

 

Story of the miracles at Cookie's table, The

Enoch, Wesley

2007

 

Taming of the Shrew, The

Shakespeare, William

2003

 

Tempest, The

Shakespeare, William

2002

 

Three plays: Norm and Ahmed, Rooted, The Roy Murphy show

Buzo, Alex

1973

 

Endgame

Beckett, Samuel

1964

 

Stolen

Harrison, Jane

1998

 

Radiance

Nowra, Louis

1993

 

A beautiful life

Futcher, M. & Howard, H.

2000

 

Parramatta girls

Valentine, Alana

2007

Scan27.2

 

Poetry

 

Title

Author

Publication

Date

Review

Verse

 

 

 

‘Mending Wall'

Frost, Robert

USA, 1915

 

‘Municipal gum'

Noonuccal, Oodgeroo

1960

 

‘My Artist Son'

Noonuccal, Oodgeroo

1988

 

‘My Beautiful Child'

Roach, Archie

1992

 

‘The Wasteland'

Eliot, T.S.

UK, 1922

 

‘Took the Children Away'

Roach, Archie

1992

 

‘We are going'

Noonuccal, Oodgeroo

1964

 

‘William Street'

Slessor, Kenneth

1935

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Collections

 

 

 

At the round Earth's imagined corners(but avoid the poems set for study for Standard Module C Elective 2: Into the World)

Watson, Ken (ed.)

2005

 

By the river

Herrick, Steven

2004

 

Inside black Australia: an anthology of Aboriginal poetry

Gilbert, Kevin (ed.)

1988

 

New selected poems 1966-1987(but avoid the poems set for study for Extension 1 Module B Elective 3: Navigating the Global)

Heaney, Seamus

1992

 

Sometimes gladness: collected poems 1954 to 1997

Dawe, Bruce

1997

 

Stradbroke dreamtime

Walker, Kath

1972

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Song lyrics

 

 

 

 

Artist

Date

Album / Producer / Company

‘Beautiful letdown, The' 

Switchfoot

2003

The Beautiful Letdown /produced by John Fields / Columbia Sony BMG

‘Englishman in New York'

Sting

1987

Nothing like the Sun/ A&M Records

‘From little things big things grow'

Carmody, Kevin & Kelly, Paul

1991

Comedy (1991) /  Mushroom Records

‘My island home'

Murray, Neil

1986

Go Bush /performed by Warumpi Band /Parole Records

‘My island home'

Anu, Christine

1995

Stylin' up / Mushroom Records

‘My island home'

Tiddas

1998

Radiance Soundtrack /produced by Alistair Jones

‘She's leaving home'

McCartney, Paul & Lennon, John

1967

Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band/ produced by George Martin / Parlophone Capitol

‘We belong'

Benatar, Pat

1985

Best Shots (1989 )/ Capitol Records

‘Youth of the nation'

P.O.D.

2001

Satellite / Atlantic Christian

Working class hero' * explicit language

Lennon, John

1970

John Lennon /Plastic Ono Band / Capitol

‘Working class hero'

Lennon, John/ Greenday

1995

Working Class Hero: A Tribute to John Lennon (Various artists) / Hollywood records

 

Non fiction

 

Title

Author

Publication

date*

Review

A question of colour

Healey, Kaye (ed.)

1992

 

Adopted children in the Kelly family, The - Nhung dua con nuoi trong gia dinh Kelly

Thai Huy, Nguyen & Vinh, Phuong

1984

 

Almost lost: the true story of an anonymous teenager's life on the streets

Sparks, Beatrice (ed.)

1996

 

Alone by myself

Woss, Melanie

2002

 

Angela's ashes: a memoir of a childhood

McCourt, Frank

UK, 1997

 

Anne Frank and the children of the Holocaust

Lee, Carol Ann

2006

 

As nature made him: the boy who was raised as a girl

Colapinto, John

2000

 

Australian immigration stories 1900-1940

Courtney, L. & Massola, L.

2004

Scan 24.2

Australian immigration stories 1940-1960

Courtney, L. & Massola, L.

2004

Scan 24.2

Australian immigration stories 1960-1980

Courtney, L. & Massola, L.

2004

Scan 24.2

Being in a wheelchair

Keith, Lois

1998

 

Belonging: home away from home

Huggan, Isabel

2003

 

Beyond the red door

Shaw, Janet

2004

 

Boy's life, A

Davis, Jack

1991

Database review

Broken circles: fragmenting indigenous families 1800-2000

Haebich, Anna

2000

 

Burn journals, The

Runyon, Brent

UK, 2006

 

Careful, he might not hear you

Solomon, Rosa

1990

 

Chinese Cinderella: the secret story of an unwanted daughter

Yen Mah, Adeline

1999

 

Desert dawn

Dirie, W. & D'Haem, J.

UK, 2002

 

Diving-bell and the butterfly, The

Bauby, Jean-Dominique

UK, 1997

 

Don't take your love to town

Langford, Ruby

 1988

 

Falling leaves : the true story of an unwanted Chinese daughter

Mah, Adeline Yen

1997

 

Follow the rabbit–proof fence

Pilkington, Doris

2002

 

Girl, interrupted

Kaysen, Susanna

UK, 2000

 

Girls like you

Sheehan, Paul

2006

 

Glory garage, The: growing up Lebanese Muslim in Australia

Jamal, N. & Chandab, T.

2005

 

Growing up Asian in Australia

Pung, Alice (ed.)

2008

 

Home and away: Australian stories of belonging and alienation

Benet, B. & Hayes, S. (ed.)

2000

 

I had a black dog: his name was Depression

Johnstone, Matthew

2005

 

Immigration and asylum 

Teichmann, Iris

2002

Scan 21.4

Infidel

Hirsi, Ayaan

UK, 2008

 

Life as an immigrant

Teichmann, Iris

USA, 2005

 

Look me in the eye: my life with Asperger's

Robison, John E.

2007

 

Lost children: thirteen Australians taken from their Aboriginal families, The

Edwards, C. & Read, P. (ed.)

1989

 

Lost German slave girl, The

Bailey, John

2003

 

Mao's last dancer

Cunxin, Li

2003

 

Maybe tomorrow

Pryor, B. & Macdonald, M.

1998

 

My place

Morgan, Sally

1987

 

No logo

Klein, Naomi

2000

 

Queen bees & wannabes

Wiseman, Rosalind

USA, 2002

 

Reconciliation

Cahir, Sandra

2002

 

Reconciliation, it starts with me

Carnegie, J. & Hastings, T.

2000

 

Refugee interviews

Neustatter, A. & Elliott, H.

UK, 2005

 

Refugee refugees see the East Timorese?

Duong, X.

2000

 

Refugees

Maddocks, Steven

USA, 2004

 

Refugees & asylum seekers

Dalton, Dave

2005

 

Respecting cultural differences

Watson, Susan

2003

 

Reviving Ophelia

Pipher, Mary

1996

 

Riding in cars with boys

Donofrio, Beverly

UK, 2001

 

Say it out loud: journey of a real cowboy

Sutton, A. & McMahon, N.

2007

 

Self-made man: my year disguised as a man

Vincent, Nora

UK, 2006

 

Shades of belonging: conversations with Australian Jews

Korn, Neer

1999

 

Shame

Sanghera, Jasvinder

UK, 2007

 

Sophie's journey

Collings, Sally

2007

 

Stolen Generations, The

Healey, Justin (ed.)

2001

 

Trouble in my head: a young girl's fight with depression

Monaque, Mathilde

UK, 2007

 

Under the Wintamarra tree

Pilkington, Doris

2002

Scan22.2

Unwanted, The: a memoir

Nguyen, Kien

2001

 

Where the sea takes us: a Vietnamese - Australian story

Huynh, Kim

2007

 

Youth gangs

Healey, Kaye (ed.)

1996

 

 

 

Film

 

Title

Director

Publication

date *

Review

300 (MA)

Snyder, Zack

USA, 2007

 

A beautiful mind (M)

Howard, Ron

USA, 2001

 

An angel at my table(M)

Campion, Jane

1990

 

An officer and a gentleman (M)

Hackford, Taylor

USA, 1981

 

As it is in Heaven (M)

Pollak, Kay

Sweden, 2005

 

Australia

Luhrmann, Baz

2008

 

Babel (MA)

Iñárritu, Alejandro González

2007

 

Band's visit, The (M)

Kolirin, Eran

Israel, 2007

 

Bend it like Beckham (PG)

Chadha, Gurinder

UK, 2002

 

Beneath clouds (M)

Sen, Ivan

2001

 

Brokeback Mountain (M)

Lee, Ang

USA, 2005

 

Children of men (MA)

Cuarón, Alfonso

USA, 2006

 

Cider house rules, The (M)

Hallström, Lasse

USA, 1998

 

Clueless(M)

Heckerling, Amy

USA, 1995

 

Color purple, The (PG)

Spielberg, Steven

USA, 1985

 

Cruel intentions(MA)

Kumble, Roger

USA, 1999

 

Cry freedom (PG)

Attenborough, Richard

1987, UK

 

Dead poets society(PG)

Weir, Peter

USA, 1989

 

December boys(PG)

Hardy, Rod

UK, 2006

 

Donnie Darko (M)

Kelly, Richard

USA, 2004

 

E.T. the extra-terrestrial (PG)

Speilberg, Steven

USA, 1982

 

Earth (MA)

Mehta, Deepa

Ind/Can, 1998

 

Educating Rita

Gilbert, Lewis

UK, 1983

 

Edward Scissorhands(PG)

Burton, Tim

USA, 1990

 

Elephant man, The (M)

Lynch, David

USA, 1980

 

Far from heaven (M)

Haynes, Todd

USA, 2003

 

Fire (MA)

Mehta, Deepa

Ind/Can, 1996

 

Freedom writers(M)

LaGravenese, Richard

USA, 2006

 

Fried green tomatoes (PG)

Avnet, Jon

USA, 1992

 

Gandhi (M)

Attenborough, Richard

UK/Ind, 1982

 

Glory road(PG)

Gartner, James

USA, 2006

 

Grease(PG)

Kleiser, Randal

USA, 1978

 

Happy feet (G)

Miller, George

UK, 2006

 

Hotel Rwanda (M)

George, Terry

USA, 2005

 

Howl's moving castle (PG)

Miyazaki, Hayao

Japan, 2005

 

Ice age (G)

Wedge, Chris

USA, 2002

 

Into the wild (M)

Penn, Sean

USA, 2007

 

Kite runner, The (M)

Forster, Marc

USA, 2007

 

Leaving of Liverpool, The (M)

Jenkins, Michael

UK, 2005

 

Life is beautiful (M)

Benigni, Roberto

USA, 1997

 

Little Miss Sunshine (M)

Dayton, Jonathon

USA, 2007

 

 

Lives of others, The (MA)

von Donnersmarck, Florian H.

Ger, 2006

 

Miss Potter (G)

Noonan, Chris

UK, 2007

 

Monsoon wedding (M)

Nair, Mira

USA, 2001

 

Muriel's wedding (M)

Hogan, Paul

1994

 

My big fat Greek wedding (G)

Zwick, Joel

USA, 2001

 

My brilliant career (G)

Armstrong, Gillian

1979

 

Nineteen eighty-four (M)

Radford, Michael

UK, 1984

 

Not without my daughter (PG)

Gilbert, Brian

USA, 1990

 

Of mice and men (M)

Sinise, Gary

USA, 1992

 

One flew over the cuckoo's nest (M)

Forman, Milos

USA, 1975

 

One night the moon (M)

Perkins, Rachel

2000

 

Oscar and Lucinda (M)

Armstrong, Gillian

1997

 

Pan's labyrinth (MA)

Del Toro, Guillermo

Finland, 2006

 

Places in the heart (PG)

Benton, Robert

USA, 1984

 

Pursuit of happyness, The (M)

Muccino, Gabriele

USA, 2007

 

Radiance (M)

Perkins, Rachel

1997

 

Remember the Titans(PG)

Yakin, Boaz

USA, 2000

 

Save the last dance 2(M)

Petrarca, David

USA, 2006

 

Saved!(M)

Dannelly, Brian

USA, 2005

 

Secret of Roan Inish, The (G)

Sayles, John

USA, 1994

 

She's the man (PG)

Fickman, Andy

USA, 2006

 

Shine(PG)

Hicks, Scott

1999

 

Slaughterhouse-five (M)

Hill, George Roy

USA, 1972

 

Snow falling on cedars(M)

Hicks, Scott

USA, 1999

 

Spirited away (PG)

Miyazaki, Hayao

Jap, 2002

 

Stranger than fiction (M)

Forster, Marc

USA, 2006

 

Talented Mr Ripley, The(M)

Minghella, Anthony

USA, 1999

 

Thelma & Louise(M)

Scott, Ridley

USA, 1991

 

To kill a mockingbird(PG)

Mulligan, Robert

USA, 1962

 

To Sir, with love(PG)

Clavell, James

UK, 1967

 

Tracker, The (MA)

Schechter, Jeff

Can, 2001

 

Transamerica(MA)

Tucker, Duncan

USA, 2005

 

Visitor, The(M)

McCarthy, Tom

USA, 2008

 

Waking Ned Devine (PG)

Jones, Kirk

UK, 1998

 

Water (M)

Mehta, Deepa

Ind/Can, 2005

 

West side story(PG)

Wise, Robert

USA, 1961

 

Whale rider(PG)

Caro, Niki

NZ, 2002

Scan24.2

What's eating Gilbert Grape?(PG)

Hallstrom, Lasse

USA, 1998

 

Wit (M)

Nichols, Mike

USA, 2001

 

Yolngu boy (M)

Johnson, Stephen

2001

 

 

 

 

 

Documentaries

 

 

 

1960: skin deep

Marzynski, Marian

USA, 1999

 

Frontline: a class divided

Peters, William

USA, 1985

 

Four Corners: A deathly silence

McDermott, Quentin

2006

 

A sense of place

Ferris, Marie

2007

 

Babakiueria

Featherstone, Don

1980

 

Band of brothers

Williams, Gareth

UK, 2001

 

Blue eyed

Verhaag, Bertram

USA, 1996

 

Boy who plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan

Grabsky, Phil

UK , 2004

 

Boy who was turned into a girl, The

BBC TV

UK, 2000

 

Boys don't dance

McGowan, Nicki

2005

 

Choir of hard knocks

Welch, Jonathon

2007

 

Compass: Coming of the light

Patrick, R. & Edmondson M.

2006

 

Compass: A small town welcome

Bare, Ili

2008

 

Cry from the heart: the stolen generation

Kendall, Jeni

1999

 

Emily's eyes

Douglas–Henry, J.

1999

 

Frank & Daz take on the world!

Rymer, Judy

2007

 

Geisha girl

Conway, Darren

UK, 2005

 

Jihad Sheilas

Gombac, Renata

2008

 

Mabo:life of an island man

Graham, Trevor

1997

 

Marking time

Nowlan, Cherie

2003

 

My brother Vinnie

McGregor, Steven

2007

 

My flesh and blood

Karsh, Jonathan

USA,2003

 

My left foot: the story of Christy Brown

Sheridan, Jim

UK, 1989

 

Operation Babylift

Le, Dai

2005

 

Out of our minds

Carlin, David

2001

 

Painting with light in a dark world

Ettinger–Epsetin, S.

2003

 

Paradise bent: boys will be girls in Samoa

Croall, Heather

1999

 

Race for the beach

Erson, Alan

2007

 

Refugee like me

Travers, Carmel

2002

 

Riot and revenge

Jackson, Liz

2006

 

Saying sorry: the day the nation cried

(Message Stick)

2008

 

Three seconds from glory

Goldie, David

2000

 

Trading races

Russell, David

2002

 

 

Multimedia

 

Title

Author

Publication

Date

Review

Websites

 

 

 

Article from The Age (online): Sudanese settlers feel ‘thin sense of belonging', October 13, 2007 www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/10/12/1191696174833.html

Farouque, Farah

2007

 

Article in the Medical Journal of Australia citing that boys need a sense of belonging: www.mja.com.au/public/issues/185_08_161006/phi10330_fm.html

Phillips, William J

2006

 

Article/paper from Southern Cross University Coffs Harbour: Ecologies of Care: Belonging in Un/Australia by Kim Satchell - www.unaustralia.com/electronicpdf/Unsatchell.pdf

Satchell , Kim

2006

 

Belonging, A Century Celebrated

www.belonging.org/misc-pages/people_place.html

NLA

2000

 

Beyond Sorry (2005)

australianscreen.com.au/titles/beyond-sorry/clip1/

National film & sound archive

2008

 

Blood Brothers – From Little Things Big Things Grow (1993)australianscreen.com.au/titles/blood-brothers-little-things/clip2/

National film & sound archive

2008

 

Bran Nue Dae(1991)

australianscreen.com.au/titles/bran-nue-dae/clip1/

National film & sound archive

2008

 

Brisbane stories

brisbane-stories.powerup.com.au/

A Brisbane City Council Community

2005

 

Chief Seattle (speeches)

www.halcyon.com/arborhts/chiefsea.html

Arbor Heights, USA

2003

 

Film Australia Digital Learning: Sense of Belonging

dl.filmaust.com.au/module/361/

Screen Australia

2008

 

Gulpilil – One Red Blood(2002) australianscreen.com.au/titles/gulpilil-one-red-blood/clip1/

National film & sound archive

2008

 

Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (2007)

Us taken-away kids module

www.humanrights.gov.au/bth/taken/index.html

Australian

Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission

2008

 

Interview with Jeannie Baker on Belongingwww.jeanniebaker.com/focus_web/belonging_interview.htm

Jeannie Baker

2004

 

Molly and Mobarak(2003)

australianscreen.com.au/titles/molly-mobarak/clip1/

National film & sound archive

2008

 

Museum of London: Belonging

www.adamstrainor.com/site3.0/archive/project_belonging.html

Museum of London

2008

 

Online article: Transformasia: A Sense of Belonging – www.transformasia.com.au/article-028.html

Transformasia

2008

 

Philia: A dialogue on caring citizenship: Belonging and Inclusion – www.philia.ca/cms_en/page1342.cfm?&presto_format=print

Developmental Disabilities Resource Centre of Calgary (DDRC)

2008

 

Scattered People

brisbane-stories.powerup.com.au/scatteredpeople/

A Brisbane City Council Community

2005

 

Shifting Sands – My Colour Your Kind(1998) - australianscreen.com.au/titles/shifting-sands-my-colour/clip2/

National film & sound archive

2008

 

Talk it Up Chalk It Up: Peer Culture and Belonging  www.abc.net.au/talkitup/chalkitup/peerculture.htm

ABC

2008

 

The Belonging Initiative article: Loneliness can take toll on health  www.plan.ca/belong/2007/11/loneliness-can-take-toll-on-health.html

 

 

 

 

2007

 

Voices of Australia

www.hreoc.gov.au/education/voices/index.html

Australian

Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission

2008

 

Yellow Fellow (2005)

australianscreen.com.au/titles/yellow-fella/clip1/

National film & sound archive

 

 

 

 

Title

Author

Publication

Date*

Review

Scanissue

Picture book

 

 

 

Arrival, The

Tan, Shaun

2008

Scan26.2

Belonging

Baker, Jeannie

2004

Scan24.1

Big little book of happy sadness, The

Thompson, Colin

2008

Scan27.4

Broken beaks

Lachenmeyer, N.

2003

 

Changes

Browne, Anthony

UK, 2008

 

Dust

Thompson, Colin

2007

Scan26.4

Fox

Wild, Margaret

2000

Scan database

Gentleman Jim

Briggs, Raymond

UK, 1980

 

Henry and Amy: right-way-round upside down

King, Stephen Michael

1998

 

Hidden forest, The

Baker, Jeannie

2000

Scan database

Home and away

Marsden, J. & Ottley, M.

2008

Scan 28.1

Home in the sky

Baker, Jeannie

1984

 

How to heal a broken wing

Graham, Bob

2008

Scan 28.1

Into the forest

Browne, Anthony

USA, 2004

Scan24.1

Island, The

Greder, Armin

2007

Scan 27.1

John Brown, Rose and the midnight cat

Wagner, Jenny

1979

 

Let the celebrations begin!

Wild, Margaret

1991

 

Let's eat

Zamorano, A.

1996

 

Lost thing, The

Tan, Shaun

2000

Scan database

Man, The

Briggs, Raymond

UK, 1992

 

Memorial

Crew, Gary & Tan, Shaun

1999

 

Millicent

Baker, Jeannie

1980

 

My place

Wheatly, Nadia

2008 ed.

Scan database

Peasant prince, The

Cunxin, Li

2008

Scan27.2

Rabbits, The

Marsden, John

1998

 

Red tree, The

Tan, Shaun

2001

 

Requiem for a beast

Ottley, Matt

2007

 

Scan27.1

Rose Blanche

Innocenti, Roberto

USA, 1985

 

Short and incredibly happy life of Riley, The

Thompson, Colin

2005

Scan24.4

Singing hat, The

Riddle, Tohby

2000

 

Space travellers

Wild, Margaret

1992

 

Staircase cat, The

Thompson, Colin

1998

 

Story of Rosy Dock

Baker, Jeannie

1996

 

Violin man, The

Thompson, Colin

2004

Scan23.2

We are all born free

Amnesty International

2008

 

Westlandia

Fleischman, Paul

2007 ed.

Scan database

Where the wild things are

Sendak, Maurice

USA, 1963

 

Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge

Fox, Mem

1990

 

Window

Baker, Jeannie

1991

 

woolvs in the sitee

Wild, Margaret

2006

Scan25.4

Ziba came on a boat

Lofthouse, Liz

2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Graphic novels

 

 

 

Coraline

Russell, P. Craig

USA, 2008

Scan28.3

Great Gatsby, The: a graphic adaptation

Greenberg, Nicki

2007

Scan28.1

Invention of Hugo Cabret, The

Selznick, Brian

USA, 2007

Scan26.3

Maus: a survivor's tale I, My father bleeds history

Spiegelman, Art

USA, 1986

Scan27.1

Maus: a survivor's tale II, and here my troubles began

Spiegelman, Art

USA, 1991

 

Merchant of Venice

Hinds, Gareth

USA, 2008

Scan28.1

Persepolis

Satrapi, Marjane

UK, 2003

 

Persepolis 2

Satrapi, Marjane

UK, 2004

 

Requiem for a beast

Ottley, Matt

2007

Scan27.1

Sacrifice, The

Mutard, Bruce

2008

Scan28.3

Savage, The

Almond, David

2008

 

Signal to noise

Gaiman, Neil

UK, 2007

 

Trial, The: a graphic novel of Franz Kafka's classic

Mairowitz, David Zane

UK, 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Visual art

 

 

 

American gothic

Wood, grant

1930

 

Anxiety

Munch, Edvard

1894

 

Automat

Hopper, Edward

1927

 

Boy running

Drysdale, Russell

1952

 

Cahill Expressway

Smart, Jeffrey

1962

 

Christina's world

Wyeth, Andrew

1948

 

Despair

Munch, Edvard

1893

 

Down on his luck

McCubbin, Frederick

1889

 

Le Moulin de la Galette

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste

1876

 

Lovers, The

Magritte, Rene

1928

 

Luncheon of the Boating Party

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste

1881

 

Mangula

 

Drysdale, Russell

1961

 

Morning commuters, The Kubu, Circular Quay, 1938

Dupain, Max

1999

 

New school, The

Smart, Jeffrey

2004

 

Nightawks

Hopper, Edward

1942

 

Pioneer, The

McCubbin, Frederick

1904

 

Scream, The

Munch, Edvard

 1893

 

Separation

Munch, Edvard

1900

 

Something more 

Moffat, Tracey

1989

 

Tired soldier in Queensland train 1943

Dupain, Max

1973

 

Weeping woman

Picasso, Pablo

1937

 

 

Media

 

Series title

Program

Date

Source

Duration

Outline

Australian story

Cry Me a River: Noel and Gerhardt Pearson

2007

ABC TV

28 min.

Lifts the lid on a clash of ideologies over the future of some of the most spectacular and pristine areas of Cape York.

 

Apology to the Stolen Generations of Australia, The

2008

ABC TV

120 min.

The apology in Federal Parliament to the Stolen Generations of Australia, by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was a defining moment in the nation's history. Presented by Tony Jones (Lateline) and Miriam Corowa (Message Stick) this DVD includes complete coverage of the speeches and proceedings with expert analysis and reaction from members of Australia's Stolen Generation.

Compass

From Cronulla to Kokoda

2007

ABC TV

58 min.

At the height of the Cronulla race riots a 16-year old Muslim boy climbed the local RSL club's flagpole and threw the Australian flag down to his mates. This is Ali's redemptive journey. This timely story touches on themes of national identity, religion and history.

Compass

A sense of place

2008

ABC TV

52 min.

All were refugees and through these four very different personalities we examine how they each found their ‘sense of place'.

Compass

A small town welcome

21/03/

2008

ABC TV

52 min.

The tiny NSW township of Dorrigo has opened its arms to a Sudanese family. What happens after the first flush of arrival wears off and the hard realities of life in a foreign land with a new language and culture, set in?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Radio

 

 

 

 

 

Life Matters

Belonging: Isabel Huggan

2004

ABC Radio National

30 min.

Isabel Huggan hails from Canada, but has spent much of her adult life living in other parts of the world It's from there that she speaks about identity, belonging, and what makes someone truly at home.

Life Matters

Anorexia: Lucy Howard-Taylor

 

 

ABC Radio National

 

The eating disorder anorexia is an illness that can have devastating and sometimes fatal consequences. It places enormous pressure on the individual, their family and friendships, and the ability to function day to day.  Lucy Howard-Taylor is 19, and she knows first hand what it's like to battle anorexia, and how hard it is to recover.

 

Late Night Live

Belonging

02/08/

2000

 

 

Can we justify our attachment to this land when we know about Aboriginal dispossession? Considers the issue of white Australia's sense of belonging & other questions raised in Peter Read's book, Belonging: Australians, Place and Aboriginal Ownership.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

News–paper /

Journal articles

 

 

 

 

 

Infocus 1239

Stranger in a strange land/ Bouras, Gillian

1994

Changing Places: Australian Writers in Europe 1960s-1990s

5 p.

She examines the many layers of cultural identity that coexist within her family and life. She reflects on the concepts of displacement, belonging and homeland through her own sense of identity and those of her husband and children.

Infocus 1116

Tribes of the city/ Molitorisz, Sacha

1998

SMH

5 p.

Looks at the variety of teenage tribes that inhabit Sydney. He discusses the various reasons for belonging to these kinds of groups often become a complete way of life. Groups mentioned include goths, bikies, yuppies, teenyboppers, dorks, web geeks and indie kids

Infocus 2095

The other Australians/ Bagnall, Diana

2001

Bulletin with Newsweek

5p.

Diana Bagnall interviews a number of second-generation immigrants to find out what their experience has been growing up in multi-cultural Australia. Topics discussed include family relations, cultural identity, new identity, self identity and belonging, racism, changing attitudes, gangs, unemployment and social attitudes.

 

I can't be fat, I must be thin/ Szego, Julie

08/12/

2007

The Age,

 

Research shows that many young people are seriously troubled by body image problems. Will the phenomenon cripple a generation's ability to mature and lead productive, satisfying lives?

 

Seeking security inturbulent times/ Hugh Mackay

01/10/

2005

The Age

 

Chronic anxiety is driving support for Howard's anti-terrorism measures, writes Hugh Mackay.

 

 

Classification website

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The site contains information about the operations of the National Classification Scheme in Australia. The site includes information about the Classification Board, an independent statutory body which makes classification decisions about films, computer games and publications. The Australian Government and states and territories have agreed on principles for decision making and these are set out in the National Classification Code. Site users can find information about particular classification decisions made by the Classification Board by searching the Online database. Teachers can Search classification database for classifications for films made overseas. A search on title gives instant results with associated titles. The site has consumer advice for the viewing and purchase of films, publications and computer games.

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