Area+of+Study+-+Belonging

=Area of Study (AOS) Prescriptions= =AOS explained in brief:= "Students explore and examine relationships between language and text, and interrelationships among texts." //The concept is a way of making connections between your prescribed text and your related material.// "They synthesise ideas to clarify meaning and develop new meanings." //Making insightful connections between your texts and expressing those insights with clarity is essential.// "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." //You need to explore your texts in detail, considering when, why and how it was composed.//



=**TASK #1**= =__Belonging Poster__= Create a poster in paper or digital form which represents your own sense of belonging. Your poster should be multimodal (words and pictures) and might represent one or a number of ways in which you belong (ie. family, community, culturally, nationally, globally). Use the 'glogster website to create and embed your poster on your wikipage. media type="custom" key="7232215"

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TASK #2__Belonging in the 21st Century __
**In this topic, we will be contributing to a discussion on 'belonging' and social identity in the 21st century.**
 * (You should have already read the SIRC commissioned report into Belonging in the UK.)**

__**Your task is to spend two lessons researching and compiling a 'blog' report into a social identity of your choice.**__

You might choose from the following, or you can choose your own topic in consultation with your teacher. 1. Belonging to place/National identities //('Aussie Pride', Suburban identities, Foreign nationals, Aussies oversees)// 2. Belonging online //(social networking, MySpace, Facebook and Second Life etc)// 3. Belonging to faith/religion //(Religion in the 21st century, Fundamentalism, cults and sects, WWJD?, The Silver Ring Thing...)// 4. Belonging to race/ethnicity //(Indigenous identities, immigrant communities, gangs, mafia, cultural clashes)// 5. Belonging to a profession //(ADF recruitment website, whistleblowers, professional communities)// 6. Belonging to lifestyle: branding, leisure, 'sub-cultures' //(youth sub-cultures, clubs and community groups, Mac users etc...)//

**Your blog post could include discussion points, opinions, related texts, hyperlinks etc.**

WRITING YOUR BLOG
 1. Choose a ‘social identity’ that interests you.

2. Conduct research into how and why people belong in these particular ways. a. Why do you think people choose to belong in this way? b. Why do you think people choose not to belong? c. What are the barriers which prevent belonging in this way? d. How does this aspect of belonging reflect human experiences in the 21st century?

3. If you have not already created your own page on the wiki, do this now. Click on the 'new page' icon and label your page 'Student - Surname, initial' (Student - Adam, A) 4. Compose your blog. Try to include hyperlinks to your research material. For example, if you are researching the ‘Rockabilly’ sub-culture, you might include a link to an article on the subject posted on an online newspaper OR a link to a rockabilly website. NOTE: __//Links and embedded content are not a substitute for your own work. Include them as a way of enriching your own writing on the subject you have chosen.//__ =__EXAMPLE BLOG - extract only (yours should be much longer and more detailed)__ = <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">include component="page" page="Student - Ant, A" wrap="1"

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Belonging on Youtube
Check out these TVO spots on 'stories of belonging' Andrew Moodie's Story of Belonging - Otherness Russell Smith's Story of Belonging - On being privileged Nicole D'Cruz's Story of Belonging