1. Identity and Belonging
Who am I ?
Where do I Belong?
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2. Area of Study - Belonging
Study Program
Growing Up Asian in Australia- a collection of short stories + Additional Texts
Outcome: Creating and Presenting
Writing Folio consisting of:
Creative piece
Expository piece
Oral presentation
Collect the outline of this unit from your teacher
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3. Y Chart – IDENTITY and BELONGING
Feels like
Looks like
Sounds like

4. Activity – Identity and Belonging Web
With yourself at the centre, draw around you all the individuals, groups, institutions, places, things to which you belong. Draw lines for any connections you can make between these. On each of the lines connecting you to others write words describing the kind of belonging that characterise your belonging. Then think about who you are. Do these connections define you? (see next slide for some ideas).

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6. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is model for understanding an individual’s social behaviour and was designed to explain people’s personality and motivation. Its creator, Maslow, believed that as we satisfy lower order needs we are able to turn our attention to higher order needs – and in this way we can develop as social individuals (This is not the only way of describing human motivation – there are other theories as well)

7. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

8. Written Responses
Do YOU feel that your sense of family is dependent upon feeling comfortable at home?
Is your sense of self-esteem dependent upon belonging to a group?
Can you be creative if you do not feel safe?
Do you agree with the model’s position of belonging as a need? What does Belonging’s position in the hierarchy of needs say about its importance to an individual?
How would YOU change the hierarchy of needs to reflect your order of importance for these concepts? Are there other concepts you would include that are more important?

9. Introduction to context: Identity and belonging
Complete the Identity and belonging work sheets.
Ms Akhil to hand out.
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10. Task
Construct a visual representation of your ‘Identity and belonging web’. You can present your ‘Identity and belonging web’ as a collage on cardboard, or an ‘electronic collage’. (This is a visual representation, so be imaginative. You can use photographs, pictures from magazines, coloured pens etc. Consider the layout – how does it contribute to the concept of belonging)

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COMPOSE
Write up your findings from the previous activities in a few paragraphs considering the barriers and oppositions that operate in the concept of belonging.
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12. HOMEWORK Read ‘The Concept’ handout and answer the given questions.
Complete WORKSHEET QUESTIONS on ‘You and Belonging’.
Find a text that shows ideas related to identity and belonging and bring it to class next lesson. You will share the ideas with your peers.

13. Writing and Oral Activity
Written and oral task – think about and identify something, which belongs to you, which has little material worth, but which you value.
Write a short explanation of your connection to this thing and why it is important to you.
Present your explanation to the class and explain the importance of the connection.

14. “We don’t know what we’ve got until we lose it”
Identify something, someone or even an aspect of yourself which once belonged to you, but no longer does. Write responses to these questions:
Why was this important to you?
How was this lost?
How did you feel?
How did you cope?

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Speed Dating Activity
You will work in pairs.
Each pair will be given a visual image.
Each pair has two minutes to write down what the visual image is saying about belonging and one technique used to convey this meaning.
When two minutes are up pass the image to next pair and the process starts again.
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16. Speed Dating - Texts
Each group will be given a short text extract. You have one minute to read and another three minutes to write down what the text is saying about belonging and one technique used to convey this meaning. When three minutes is up pass the text to next group and the process starts again.

17. Homework
Find a visual text or multi-modal text (picture book, photograph, newspaper report with photograph, cartoon etc) that conveys the concepts of ‘Identity and Belonging’. Write a one page written response on what this visual image is saying about belonging and the techniques the composer uses to convey meaning.

18. Imaginative Writing
You can learn a lot by using good writers as models for ways of writing. Her is one way of creating a strong effect by focusing on a single word:
I want to be free of cities. Heat. That is what cities mean to me. You get off the train and walk out of the station and you are hit with a full blast. The heat of the air, traffic and people. The heat of food and sex. The heat of tall buildings. The heat that floats out of the subways and the tunnels. It’s always fifteen degrees better in the cities. Heat rises from the sidewalks and falls from the poisoned sky. The buses breathe heat. Heat emanates from crowds of shoppers and office workers. The entire infrastructure is based on heat, desperately uses up heat, breeds more heat. The eventual heat death of the universe that the scientists love to talk about is already well underway and you can feel it happening all around you in any large or medium sized city. Heat and wetness.
White Noise, Don de Lillo
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19. Imaginatively Writing Activity
Using the writing on the previous slide as a model, write a paragraph on belonging with a cascade of images, following one of the introductions given, or writing your own.
I want to be free of belonging…
I want to feel a sense of belonging…

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CLASS DISCUSSION
Brainstorm experiences and problems that you think migrants may have faced on their migration journey and settlement in Australia.
How do these experiences and problems relate to the concept of identity and belonging?
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21. Area of Study - Belonging
HOMEWORK TASK
Interview a member of the family or a friend who has migrated to Australia. Find out what their experiences were like and any problems they encountered and how this migration experience impacted on their notions of belonging.
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22. “They’re a Weird Mob”,
Extract 1 – ‘Why don’t you go back to your own bloody country’
Extract 2 – ‘Still a Dago’
Extract 3 – ‘Your turn to shout’

23. They’re a Weird Mob!
Whilst watching these extracts from the film ‘They’re a Weird mob, consider the following questions:
What attitudes were displayed to immigrants? How do these compare to attitudes today?
What does assimilation mean? What does multiculturalism mean? What attitudes are implied by each of these words?
What fears and concerns do you think immigrants may have experienced during the 1950s?
What techniques does the director use in these extracts to highlight the problems, fears and concerns of immigrants?
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24. They’re A Weird Mob – Scene 1
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25. They’re a Weird Mob Scene 2
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26. They’re A Weird Mob – Scene 3
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27. This Land is Mine
Understand how the concept of belonging has been represented in literature through analysing the song ‘this land is mine; this land is me’, Carmody & Kelly.

28. A sense of identify and belonging to place
The sense of identity and belonging to place is often seen in nature poetry. This has been particularly so since industrialisation drove people to the cities where they may experience a sense of alienation.
In Australian texts, this sense of alienation is evident in the attitudes of Europeans to land as something that needs to be bounded, tamed and exploited – the land is a belonging. For indigenous peoples the land is a place of belonging, a place of personal identity.

29. Writing Responses
What perspective of identity and belonging is presented through the two voices? Use evidence from the lyrics to support your answer.
What is the connection between ‘ownership’ and ‘belonging’? Use evidence form the lyrics to support your answer.

30. Homework
Find a song of your own choosing and using the ‘Six-step Guide’, write a one page response on how this song explores the concepts of belonging.

31. Writing Activity Use this image as a basis for your narrative.
Your narrative must be at least 3 x A4 pages long.

32. Writing Activity - Homework
‘He crouched trembling, his fear of discovery intensified as he heard footsteps approach…..’
Use this opening sentence as the start of your narrative.
Your narrative must be at least 3 x A4 pages long.

33. Day of Belonging
Read the article ‘Day of Belonging’ and fill in the ‘statement table’ sheet.

34. Compose an essay
Write an expository essay (an introduction 6-7 paragraphs in the body and a conclusion) about the exploration of the concept of identity and belonging. In this essay you’re not only going to write about the poem, but also about the extracts from “They’re a Weird Mob” and the newspaper article. Use the table you constructed as well as responses to your questions for both the poem, extracts and article to help you formulate ideas.