Related Texts: Non-fiction
Non-fiction texts about belonging include biographies and memoirs. Like novel, they are often very long. If you use one of these texts, make sure you can summarise the plot in 1-2 sentences and chose two or three important scenes to discuss in detail for your essay.
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Forbidden Love is an interesting choice. It’s about belonging (through love) that is challenged by culture. It raises a lot of issues for you to discuss and you don’t have to have exact matches with the core text, just be able to make links
Diary of Anne Frank is about belonging to family, to self and to your country and your faith. It’s about identity and self esteem through relations with others. It’s a strong choice. Rather than obviously dealing with belonging in a positive sense it looks at the strength these people have in the face of quite extraordinary persecution.
The Glory Garage: Growing up Lebanese and Muslim in Australia by Nadia Jamal and Taghred Chandab. Allen & Unwin, 2005. ISBN-13: 9781741146493. 182 pp.
This is strictly speaking a collection of essays about what it means to be Australian, female, Lebanese and Muslim. However, it reads much more like a collection of short stories. The essays are personalised accounts of the lives of a number of young women, including the authors. This is a good Standard and ESL text. Students can concentrate on an individual essay.
Mao's last dancer
Stories from a troubled land’ edited by Sue Cass.
My Place, Sally Morgan
Falling Leaves, Adeline yen Mah
Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt
Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali
This is another section I'm working on so check back next year.
Forbidden Love is an interesting choice. It’s about belonging (through love) that is challenged by culture. It raises a lot of issues for you to discuss and you don’t have to have exact matches with the core text, just be able to make links
Diary of Anne Frank is about belonging to family, to self and to your country and your faith. It’s about identity and self esteem through relations with others. It’s a strong choice. Rather than obviously dealing with belonging in a positive sense it looks at the strength these people have in the face of quite extraordinary persecution.
The Glory Garage: Growing up Lebanese and Muslim in Australia by Nadia Jamal and Taghred Chandab. Allen & Unwin, 2005. ISBN-13: 9781741146493. 182 pp.
This is strictly speaking a collection of essays about what it means to be Australian, female, Lebanese and Muslim. However, it reads much more like a collection of short stories. The essays are personalised accounts of the lives of a number of young women, including the authors. This is a good Standard and ESL text. Students can concentrate on an individual essay.
Mao's last dancer
Stories from a troubled land’ edited by Sue Cass.
My Place, Sally Morgan
Falling Leaves, Adeline yen Mah
Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt
Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali
