Voices of Australia: Activity sheet 7 - rightsED
Voices of Australia - Activity sheet 7
Get creative
Create an artistic piece (painting/song/drama play/menu/stage costume) that
celebrates the themes of diversity, anti-discrimination and multiculturalism.
Use this resource list for examples to inspire you!
Prose fiction
- Ballard, J G, Empire of the Sun, HarperCollins, 1994, ISBN
0006547001 - Card, Orson Scott, Ender's Game, Orbit, 1998, ISBN 185723720X
- Courtney, Bryce, The Power of One, Random House, 1989, ISBN
0345359925 - Lee, Harper, To Kill a Mockingbird, HarperCollins, 1960 ISBN
0060194995 - Twain, Mark, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Penguin Classics, 1986,
ISBN 0140430180
Drama/Shakespeare
- Gow, Michael, Away, Currency Press, 1988, ISBN 0868192112
- Jamieson, Nigel, In Our Name (Performed 2004, Belvoir St Theatre,
Sydney) - Nowra, Louis, Capricornia, Currency Press, 1992, ISBN 0868193135
- Nowra, Louis, Così, Currency Press, 1994, ISBN 0868194034
- Nowra, Louis, Radiance, Currency Press, 1993, ISBN 0868193704
- Shakespeare, William, The Tempest, Cambridge University Press, New
Cambridge Shakespeare, 2002, ISBN 052129374X, or Cambridge School Shakespeare, 1995,
ISBN 0521479037
Poetry
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Complete Poems,
Penguin Classics, 1997, ISBN 0140423532 ['The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1834)',
'This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison', 'Frost at Midnight', 'Kubla Khan'] - Skrzynecki, Peter, Immigrant Chronicle, University of Queensland Press,
1975, ISBN 0702210528 ['Immigrants at Central Station, 1951', 'Feliks Skrzynecki',
'Crossing the Red Sea', 'Leaving home', 'Migrant hostel', 'A drive in the country',
'Post card'] - Sujata Bhatt, 'The One Who Goes Away'; Ivan Lalic, 'Of Eurydice'; Gwyneth Lewis,
'Fax X'; Mudrooroo, 'A Righteous Day'; János Pilinszky, 'The French Prisoner';
Vittorio Sereni, 'A Dream'; Xuan Quynh, 'Worried Over the Days Past' - Watson, Ken (ed), At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners, St
Clair Press, 1999, ISBN 0949898937
Nonfiction
- Bragg, Melvyn, On Giants' Shoulders, Sceptre, 1999, ISBN 0340712600
- Morgan, Sally, My Place, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1987, ISBN
0949206318 - Martin, Jesse, Lionheart, Allen & Unwin, 2001, ISBN 1865085707
Film
- Benigni, Roberto, Life is Beautiful, Roadshow, 1999
- Chadha, Gurinder, Bend it like Beckham (UK), Fox Searchlight
Productions, 2002 (see http://www2.foxsearchlight.com/benditlikebeckham/) - Do, Khoa, Footy Legends, Icon Films, 2006
- Noyce, Phillip, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Magnum Pacific, 2002
Songs
- 'Song of Australia' (see http://www.songaustralia.com.au/song/index.php )
- Yothu Yindi, Treaty from Tribal Voice, Mushroom Records, 1991
(see www.yothuyindi.com )