level 1 connections
See your handout for the assessment criteria and planning sheets. Below you will find documents of the short stories we have looked at, as well as links to the short films.
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'a kind of madness'
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'the sniper'
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'dear mr cairney'
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'the six dollar fifty man' - short film
'day trip' - short film
Click here to view the 'Day Trip' short film.
'The wave'
'Freedom Writers'
possible other texts
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Possible connections
Here are a list of just some of the possible themes, with a list of just some suggested texts. You may choose any theme you like, as long as you have run it past me first. There are many more texts that link to these themes. You are not limited to the ones on this list. Remember that if a film is R16 and you are not 16, you are not able to use it for your assessment.
Stereotyping
Decisions and consequences
Overcoming challenges
Facing adversity
Forbidden love (or love in general)
Teenagers
The way humans treat each other
Parenting and the effect on children
Siblings/relationships etc
Dealing with death/coping with death
Relationships can stifle individuality
Pressure to be someone else
Abuse of power
Government and control
War and its impact
Revenge
The power of sport
Racial discrimination / Resilience / Prejudice / Discrimination (not all texts link to all of these)
Women's struggle against society
Hardship and survival
Childhood
HISTORICAL PERIODS
World War II: 1939 - 1945
Post 9/11
Stereotyping
Decisions and consequences
Overcoming challenges
Facing adversity
Forbidden love (or love in general)
Teenagers
The way humans treat each other
Parenting and the effect on children
Siblings/relationships etc
Dealing with death/coping with death
Relationships can stifle individuality
Pressure to be someone else
Abuse of power
Government and control
War and its impact
Revenge
- Carrie - Stephen King (film and novel)
- We all Fall Down - Robert Cormier (novel)
- Women Murder Club - James Patterson (novel)
- Prisoner of Birth - Jeffery Archer (novel)
- Road to Perdition - M A Collins (film)
- What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? - Alan Duff (film and novel)
- V for Vendetta (film)
- The Dark Knight (film)
- The Vendetta - Guy de Maupassant (short story)
The power of sport
- Exposure - Mal Peet (novel)
- The Book of Fame - Lloyd Jones (novel)
- Touch Me - James Moloney (novel)
- Tawerau Nikau (biography)
- The Blind Side (biography and film)
- Field of Dreams (film)
- Invictus (film)
- Rocky (film)
- Remember the Titans (film)
- The Natural (film)
Racial discrimination / Resilience / Prejudice / Discrimination (not all texts link to all of these)
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain (novel)
- Once Were Warriors - (film)
- Remember the Titans (film)
- The Help - (novel and film)
- Rabbit Proof Fence - (film)
- A Way of Talking - Patricia Grace
- The Hills - Patricia Grace
- The Dolls House - Katherine Mansfield
- The Colour Purple - Alice Walker (novel and film)
- To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (novel and film)
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou (autobiography)
- Caged Bird - Maya Angelou (poem)
- Telephone Conversation - Wole Soyinka (poem)
- I Have a Dream - Martin Luther King Jnr (speech)
- Arrangement in Black and White - Dorothy Parker (short story)
- Brown Brother - youtube clip (speech)
- The Danger of the Single Story - (TED speech)
- The Graffiti of Mr Tupaia - (Short film)
- Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman (novel)
Women's struggle against society
- The Piano (film)
- The Help - Kathryn Stockett (novel and film)
- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (novel, 1847; and film 2011)
- Once Were Warriors - Alan Duff (novel and film)
- Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (novel 1813, film 2005)
- Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding - Katherine Mansfield (short story)
- A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini (novel)
- North Country (film)
Hardship and survival
- It's Not About the Bike - Lance Armstrong (autobiography)
- Night - Elie Wiesel (autobiography)
- Tooth and Nail - Mary Findlay (autobiography)
- Treading Water - Rob Hewitt's Survival Story (biography)
- Into the Wild - (film)
- 127 hours - (film based on 'Between a Rock and a Hard Place' - novel)
- The Hunger Games trilogy - Suzanne Collins (novel/film)
- Between a Rock and a Hard Place - A Ralston (novel)
- Lord of the Flies - William Golding (novel)
- The Bonesetter's Daughter - Amy Tan (novel)
- Touching The Void - (film)
- Krystyna's Story - Halina Ogonowksa-Coates (biography)
Childhood
- The Diary of Anne Frank - Anne Frank (autobiography)
- Night - Elie Wiesel (autobiography)
- To the Is-Land - Janet Frame (autobiography)
- The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid - Bill Bryson (autobiography)
- Stand by Me - (film)
- Breaking Away - (film)
- Lord of the flies - William Golding (novel)
- Bulibasha - Witi Ihimaera (novel)
- The Book Thief - Markus Zusak (novel)
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - M Haddon (novel)
- Juno - (film)
HISTORICAL PERIODS
World War II: 1939 - 1945
- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - (film - novel is too low)
- The Diary of Anne Frank - (autobiography)
- The Book Thief - Markus Zusak (novel or film)
- The Gunner's Lament - J K Baxter (NZ poem)
- We Were Soldiers (film)
- Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E Frankl (autobiography)
- Schindler's Ark - Thomas Keneally (biography)
- Schindler's List - Steven Spielberg (film)
- Saving Private Ryan (film)
Post 9/11
- How I Live Now - Meg Rosoff (novel)
- World War Z - Max Brooks (novel)
- Generation Kill - Evan Wright (non-fiction)
- Ex Machina - Brian K Vaughan (graphic novel)
- Crash (film)
- The Hurt Locker (film)
- Farenheit 9/11 - Micahel Moore (documentary)
- Waltz with Bashir (animated film and graphic novel)