Exploration and Travel
Quotes about exploration/discovery can be found at ThoughtCatalogue [http://thoughtcatalog.com/koty-neelis/2013/08/40-quotes-that-will-inspire-you-to-lose-yourself-and-travel/]
This Travel Advertisement by Female First [http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/travel/life-of-pi-follow-in-the-footsteps-of-pi-on-a-journey-of-discovery-with-travel-indochina-276972.html] uses the Life of Pi to advertise a "journey of discovery" to guest on it's tour of India. It would be a useful related text for students who have difficulty with comprehension and are interested in the way the landscape is presented in the film. Pay special attention to the use of 'discovery' verbs (eg "uncover") and powerful adjective that make the well-worn tourist trail seem new and exotic.
Tracks•
Levithan, David, Are we there yet?*
Artworks
Gadsby, Hannah. (2013). Hannah Gadsby’s Oz - Episode 1 Comedian Hannah Gadsby unpacks the historical record of Australia's past through early Wuriopean and contemporary Australian artists. this diocumentary is brilliant from an Art and and English point of view because she focuses on "how" messages are created or critiqued. You could discuss the episode as a documentary or focus on a single painting. Read the review at No Award [http://no-award.net/2014/04/17/hannah-gadsby-oz-1/] and watch the copy on the TV4 Education drive.
Films
Gadsby, Hannah. (2013). Hannah Gadsby’s Oz - Episode 1 Comedian Hannah Gadsby unpacks the historical record of Australia's past through early Wuriopean and contemporary Australian artists. this diocumentary is brilliant from an Art and and English point of view because she focuses on "how" messages are created or critiqued. You could discuss the episode as a documentary or focus on a single painting. Read the review at No Award [http://no-award.net/2014/04/17/hannah-gadsby-oz-1/] and watch the copy on the TV4 Education drive.
Non-Fiction - Books
Menzies, Gavin. (2002). 1421: The Year China Discovered the World. [NF 910.95]. This revisionist history asserts that a fleet of medieval Chinese ships circumnavigated the globe, discovering America, Australia and Antarctica. While this version of history has been well and truly debunked [See The myth of Menzies at http://www.1421exposed.com/], the book is a great resource for looking at the IDEA of discovery and how it has been used by historians and writers. It's a 640 page book, so only use one section - especially useful should be "The Emperor's Grand Plan" which sets "civilised" and "opulent" China against "backward, crude and barabaric" Europe. You might also choose to focus on the author's own voyage of historical discovery as retrieval process, uncovering buried history