Themes+and+references


 * 1.The Importance of Knowing English/Command of English/ Lack of English Skills/ Living in an English-speaking country**

The Namesake- film/book Not Even a Little Accent by Louise Bennett-Coverley p.234 Stunt (poem) Language Barrier by Valerie Bloom p.258 Stunt (changes in English) Mek Four by John Agard (Jamaican Patois) Sonny's Lettah p.159 Passage Thank You, M'am by Langston Hughes p. 179 Targets (African American English) The Ant-Eater by Roald Dahl p.290 Targets ( differences between American English vs British English) [|Our Strange Lingo] by Lord Cromer p.39 Targets vg 1 Running by Benjamin Zephaniah p.39 Targets vg 1 Brackley and the Bed by Samuel Selvon p.228 Targets vg 1 ( Varieties of English, vernacular,The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago)

Dora by Dawn French- p.148\Tracks 1\2016

Global English- p.20-25\Tracks 1\2016

John Agard- poem- Reporting from the Frontline of the Great Dictionary Disaster


 * 2.Multicultural** **societies/Multiculturalism**

Daughter of Invention by Julia Alvarez

**"The River Underground" Richard Tromans (Gambia/UK)**

Farrukh Dhondy- K.B.W./ Pushy's Pimples/Good at Art/ (multicultural Britain)

Does My Head Look Big in This? p.85 Skills ( personal and cultural challenges)/ Tracks p.232 Brick Lane by Monica Ali p.87 Stunt (immigrant experience/ difficulties that come with having to straddle two cultures) So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs from Americans by Jimmy Santiago Baca p.314 Global Paths (arguments against Mexican immigration) Famous all Over Town by Daniel James alias Danny Santiago p.326 Global Paths (being a Chicano/examples of Chicano English) My Name by Sandra Cisneros p.18 Stunt (Mexican-American/multicultural struggles and roots/moving between Chicago and Mexico) Peder Victorious by Ole Edvart Rølaag p.195 Stunt ( Norwegians in the USA) A Pair of Jeans by Qaisra Shahraz Everyone Talked Loudly in Chinatown p.71 Access to English Pieces of the World by Mervyn James (Australia/diversity/immigrants) Neighbours by Tim Winton (Australia/immigrants) Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok (USA/overcoming hardships/Hong Kong/who am I)

[|Names/Nombres by Julia Alvarez] [|Rules of the Game by Amy Tan] ( a conflict between Asian and American values in an immigrant family)

Poem-Canada- Colors by Lillian Allen **Colors** Blue tights/green overcoat/polka dot underwear

Yellow ribbon/brown bobby pin/hanging from her hair

Black belt/purple shoes/mauve hat/striped socks

Red and white Crinoline top

Who done it

Who made the sky blue

Who made the pink hot

Who took day and night

Joined them back to back

Who thinned the paint for the atmosphere?

Blue tights/green overcoat/polka dot underwear

Yellow ribbon/brown bobby pin

Is anyone listening here? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 0.916em;">Blue tights/green overcoat/polka dot underwear

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 0.916em;">Yellow ribbon/brown bobby pin/glad you are here

Bend it Like Beckham Brick Lane East is East The Namesake
 * Films:**


 * __2a.Immigration__**

Wherever I Hang by Grace Nichols- poem- page 113-Access to International English 2017 Island Man by Grace Nichols-poem-page 114 -Access to International English Across the Borderline by Cooder/Hiatt/Dickinson p.223 Access to English Why Aye Man byMark Knopfler p.224 Access to English Immigrants by Sam Greenlee p.90 International Focus The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini p.93 International Focus [|The Story of US immigrants in their own eyes] The Tortilla Curtain by T.C.Boyle (book) The Namesake (book and film) Small Island (Andrea Levy) 1964 by Ahdaf Soueif Two Kinds by Amy Tam Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie p.183 Passage- Deportation At Breakfast by Larry Foundation I See You Never by Ray Bradbury p.184 Targets (illegal immigrants/why Mexicans like living in the USA)

[|Be Good, Little Immigrants by Uyen Loewald]

Warsan Shire- Somali-British poet/ poem "[|Home]"

The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie p.105\ Tracks 2016 (experiences as an immigrant to the USA\Nigerian concept of family)

Welcome to the UK? p.175-178\Tracks 1\2016 ( immigration\UK)

This Might Be Home- Bismarck Martinez (poem)

<span style="display: block; font-family: &#39;Ideal Sans A&#39;,&#39;Ideal Sans B&#39;,Helvetica,sans; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> ** Two Poetic Views of Immigration **

The New Colossus— // Emma Lazarus, 1883 // <span style="font-family: &#39;Ideal Sans A&#39;,&#39;Ideal Sans B&#39;,Helvetica,sans; font-size: 1.1667em; vertical-align: baseline;">Unguarded Gates// — Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 1895 //


 * 2b.Migration**

Shafiullah's Journey by Ben Judah The Migrant by A.L.Hendriks


 * 3.Stereotypes**

A Boy in the Girl's Bathroom p.113 Skills [|You Bring out the Mexican in me]- Sandra Cisneros


 * 4.Social Conditions -UK**

First Confession by Frank O'Connor-Tracks 1\2016 p.187-192 ( religion\Catholicism\Ireland)

Bits of Britain-p.131-135\ Tracks 1\2016

Visiting the Houses of Parliament- p.158-161\ Tracks 1\ 2016

Typhoid Mary p.149 Skills ( health/bacteria/germs)

Aspects of Culture and Values p.194 Skills

Boy A p.201 Skills (Crime) Walking the Dog by Bernard MacLaverty p.291 Stunt (IRA/Ireland)

Famine by Sinead O'Connor p.78 Skills

By Any Other Name by Santha Rama Rau ( attitudes of colonial institutions and experiences of small children/India/attitudes of the British toward the Indians)

The Sniper Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens p.107 Passage

For Your Best,Son! by Elizabeth George p.134 Targets (education)

Next Time We'll Mas You by Penelope Lively ( short story/education/boarding schools)

Book- T//<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #606060; font-family: &#39;Open Sans&#39;,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">he Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #606060; font-family: &#39;Open Sans&#39;,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> (brings up questions of identity along with issues of prejudice and racism in 1970s Britain)

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #606060; font-family: &#39;Open Sans&#39;,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Slam by Nick Hornby ( unexpected pregnancy/ responsibility/ youth issues/teenage problems/UK) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #606060; font-family: &#39;Open Sans&#39;,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">


 * 4a.Social Conditions in the USA**

In The American Society by Gish Jen (pursuit of the American Dream)

Issues in American Society p.82\Tracks 1\ 2016

A Day's Wait by Ernest Hemingway p.21 Passage Hijack by R.L.Fish p. 129 Passage Auto Repair by Rosalind Warren p.120 Passage [|Brenda's Got A Baby by Tupac Shakur]p.167 Passage In the Ghetto by Morris Mac Davis p.177 Targets The Last Leaf by O.Henry p. 193 Targets ( health issues\ health system) Black and White by Paul volponi p.79 Tracks

Looking for Alaska by John Green p.178 Targets vg 1 ( boarding school/USA)

The Egg by Sherman Anderson ( failure/American Dream/happiness/ failure/sacrifice) @http://www.eldritchpress.org/tales/egg.html

American Horse by Louise Eldrich (Native Americans)
 * 4b.Social Conditions-Australia**

The Search Begins- poem- <span style="color: #003399; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|http://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/politics/stolen-generations-effects-and-consequences#ixzz49U1nMci5]
 * 5.Diseases/Health**

The Pilot p.249 Skills Whose Face Do You See? by Melvin Burgess p.43 Passage Stevie in the Mirror by Ellen Wittlinger( self image/ depression/ mental health/residential mental health centre/ psychiatry/love)


 * 6.Africa**

Desert Dawn p.287 Skills ( differences in living conditions between certain African countries) Look at Africa by Alexander McCall Smith p.292 The Homecoming by Milly Jafta p.249 Access to English A Handful of Dates by Tayeb Salih p.254 Passage

__6a.South Africa__

Dead Man' s Shoes by David Evans p.83 Worldwide Head Work by Abel Phelps p.250 Passage The Toilet by Gcina Mhlope p.47 Targets (apartheid) I Can Be Someone by Jayne Bauling p.238 Targets vg1 In My Country (Pitika Ntuli) poem


 * 7. Indigenous Peoples**

American Indians- My Mother -short story The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie p.357 Skills (American Indians) Powhiri by Jacq Carter p.366 Skills (Maoris) Black Children by Gerald Bostock p.243 Skills (poem) Adventures of an Indian Princess by Patricia Riley p.186 Stunt I Lost MY Talk by Rita Joe p.254 (Native Canadians) No More Boomerang by Oodgeroo Noonuccal p.322 Stunt (Aboriginal culture) Took The Children Away Son of Mine p.175 Passage- Tony's Story by Leslie Marmon Silko The Man to Send Rain Clouds p.240 Access to English (Native Americans) Took the Children Away by Archie Roach p.262 Access to English (Aborigines) Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera p.265 Access to English Tsali-a Cherokee Legend adapted by Liz Huntley p.226 Targets The Custom by Charlie Patsauq p.244 Targets (Inuits) and Targets vg 1 p.217 Wandering Girl by Glenyse Ward p.251 Targets (Aborigines) Sherman Alexie-This is what it means to say Phoenix p.191 Targets vg 1 ( storytelling/storytellers/ Native Americans)

This Land Is Your Land by Woody Guthric -p92\Tracks 1\ 2016 My Land by Gary Davis AKA Litefoot - p.93\Tracks 1\2016

American Horse /short story-Louise Eldrich

__Films:__ Rabbit Proof Fence Whale Rider Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee ( text p.239 Targets)


 * 8.Beauty surgery and body modification**

The Uglies by Scott Westerfeld p.398 Skills


 * 9.African-American Civil Rights Movement**

Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody p.211 Stunt


 * 10.Love**

Long Walk to Forever by Kurt Vonnegut p.16 Access to English Greensleeves p.25 Access to English Capulet's Garden William Shakespeare p.112 Passage


 * 11.Sports**

I Am the Secret Footballer p. 30 Access to English/ p.153 Tracks Running with the Ball p.89 Access to English Running with the Ball p.71 Passage Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer p.137 Passage I Just Want to Play Football by Anthony Cartwright p.96 Targets vg 1


 * 12.AIDS**

Effortless Tears by Alexander Kanengoni p.174 Worldwide


 * 13.The rich -poor gap**

The Green Frock by Charan Jit Kaur p.186 Access to English Cause and Effect by Peter Spiro p.192 Access to English ( poverty) p.207 Passage (poverty, begging)- The Green Frock


 * 14.Terrorism**

Terrorist's Wife by Angela Greene p.202 Access to English


 * 15.Dreams**

Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream by Ed McCurdy p.210 Access to English [|The River] by Bruce Springsteen p.162 Targets vg 1 [|The Scholarshsip Jacket by Marta Salinas] [|Amigo Brother by Piri Thomas]


 * 16.Jamaica**

Blackout by Roger Mais p.151 Passage


 * 17.War/Conflicts**

[|Masters of War by Bob Dylan] p.272 Passage [|The Sniper by Liam O'Flaherty] p.276 Passage


 * 18.Expectations parents have towards their children**

The Shining Mountain by Alison Fell p.290 Passage Father and Son by Bernard Maclaverty p.119 Targets vg 1 ( father and son relationship/conflicts) [|Rules of the Game by Amy Tan]


 * 19.Canada**

The Hockey Sweater by Roch Carrier p.276 Passage Canada,Just Another USA- p.115-119\ Tracks 1\ 2016 Aa It Was in the Beginning-short story


 * 20.Outsourcing**

Transmission by Hari Kunzru p.215 Tracks\ International Focus p.62


 * 21.Being childless/Surrogacy**

[|How the Garden Grows by W B Jenkins]


 * 22.Overpopulation**

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Knut Vonnegut


 * 23.Cross-cultural communication**

Fish Cheeks by Amy Tan

Senor Payroll by W.Barrett

The Carpet Engagement by <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #545454; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Karen King-Aribisala

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #545454; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: small;">The All-American Slurp by Lensey Namioka <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #545454; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: small;">

Like Mexicans by Gary Soto ( cultural identity/ ethnocentrism/ intercultural contact/ young Mexican falling in love with an Asian girl)

A Family Supper by Kazuo Ishiguro (ethnocentrism/conflict between Japanese and American culture)

In The American Society by Gish Jen

Housepainting by Lan Samantha Chang




 * 24.Social Media**

[|Social Media by Joanna Cardwell]

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,&#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Facebook Friends by Colette McBeth [|Facebook Friends by Colette McBeth]


 * 25.Education**

__Films:__ The Blind Side Good Will Hunting Freedom Writers Teached

__Texts:__ The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok The Color Purple by Alice Walker I Believe in Unicorns by Michael Morpurgo Locking up Freedom by Beverley Naidoo Hard Times by Charles Dickens


 * 26.Teachers**

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 * Films-Internet addictions**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #212121; font-family: &#39;Segoe UI&#39;,&#39;Segoe WP&#39;,&#39;Segoe UI WPC&#39;,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Web Junkie Love Child InRealLife **27.International Work and Education (<span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">backpacking through a Third World country/drugs/sex) ** <span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Book- // Are You Experienced? // by William Sutcliffe Book-Anna and the French Kiss (Anna and the French Kiss #1) by [|Stephanie Perkins]

POEMS: "FOUND IN PIECES " BY IAN PERKINS OR " WHY YOU TRAVEL" BY GAIL MAZUR


 * 28.<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia,&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,serif; font-size: 13.8px;">English and American cultural differences /Culture Shock **

Book-That's Not English: Britishisms, Americanisms, and What Our English Says About Us by Erin Moore


 * 29.Body Art**

Moko: Body Art in New Zealand p. 239-241 - Tracks1\2016


 * 30.India**

Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts- p.265-271-Tracks 1\2016 Stench of Kerosene (Amrita Pritam) short story A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry) short story Bread (Patrike Lankesh) short story The Coin (Gangadhar Gadgil ) short story


 * 31.Refugee crisis-Films**

[|After Spring] [|The Resettled] [|Fire at Sea] [|Refugee Republic/ interactive website]
 * [|The Land Between]**


 * 32.Traditions/ Differences between generations**

A Family Supper by Kazuo Ishiguro



Everyday Use by Alice Walker




 * 33.Becoming and adult woman**

Girl by Jamaica Kincaid




 * 34.Arranged Marriages**

Doors by Chitra Divakaruni


 * 35.Being Transgender**

Educating Simon

Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family



Being Emily by Rachel Gold



Beyond Magenta by Susan Kuklin



George by Alex Gino