Transcript Belonging - English-Standard-2011

Belonging
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Rationale or Focus: In the Area of Study, students explore and examine relationships
between language and text, and interrelationships among texts. They examine closely the
individual qualities of texts while considering the texts’ relationships to the wider context
of the Area of Study. They synthesise ideas to clarify meaning and develop new
meanings. They take into account whether aspects such as context, purpose and register,
text structures, stylistic features, grammatical features and vocabulary are appropriate to
the particular text.
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The Area of Study requires students to explore the ways in which the concept of
‘belonging’ is considered and expressed in and through texts.
In their responses and compositions students examine, question and reflect on:
their observations and understanding of the portrayed events, people, ideas and societies
that they encounter in and through the prescribed texts and texts of their own choosing
related to the Area of Study.
The assumptions underlying the representations of belonging.
The ways in which they perceive the world through texts and speculate about it
The ways they consider and express their own experiences of belonging.
How meaning is conveyed, shaped, interpreted and reflected in and through texts
The ways texts are responded to and composed
The ways perspective may affect meaning and interpretation
Connections between and among texts
How texts are influenced by other texts and contexts.
They consider at least one of the texts prescribed for study and additional texts of their
own choosing.
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• Belonging. Poetry of Peter Skrzynecki:
• Through this focus, students explore the ways in which
texts depict the concept of belonging. Perceptions and
ideas of belonging, or not belonging, vary. These
perceptions are shaped within personal, cultural, historical
and social contexts. A sense of belonging can emerge from
the connections made with people, places, groups,
communities and the larger world. Within this Area of
Study, students may consider aspects of belonging in terms
of experiences and notions of identity, relationships,
acceptance and understanding.
• Texts explore many aspects of belonging, including the
potential of the individual to enrich or challenge a
community or group. They may reflect the way attitudes to
belonging are modified over time. Texts may also represent
choices not to belong, or barriers which prevent belonging.
• What it means to the person; what they belong to;
how they feel about belonging (is it all positive or
are there some negatives?).
• Wide ranging discussion could begin with
consideration of a range of ideas and/or
arguments associated with the selected Context.
Dictionary Definitions
• belong, verb,
• 1. to be correctly put into a particular position or class;
correctly classified.
• 2. fit or be acceptable in a particular place or
environment (this belongs in the top drawer); fit socially (e.g.
he doesn’t belong)
• 3. to be a member of (a club, group etc)
• 4. to be the property or possession of.
• 5. be correctly assigned to (his family prides itself on
belonging to the convict aristocracy)
Consider of a range of ideas and/or
arguments associated with the
selected Context.
• Respond to these statement from your personal
experience
• Try to think of an example of a text that
represents this statement
• the nature of identity and people’s experiences of
belonging to particular groups
• perceptions of self at home compared with those of
self at school experiences of belonging
• or not belonging to particular groups
• feelings of identity with a group or culture how
individuals may be influenced by belonging to a group
• culture issues of national identity‘identity theft’, for
example, using another’s name and details to obtain
goods and services online identities established by
network users in online communities.