Go Back to Where you came from
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Why study this text?
"MERIT AND CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE
The first series of Go Back to Where You Came Fromwas the highest-rating SBS television production of 2011, and a second series was screened in 2012. In 2013, it won Most Outstanding Factual Program at the Logie (Australian television) Awards. Series 1 of this topical documentary follows a diverse group of six Australians as they retrace the journey of asylum seekers. They experience an Australian detention centre, aleaky boat on the Timor Sea, immigration raids in Malaysia, a Kenyan refugee camp, slums in Jordan, and warzones in the Congo and Iraq.
"NEEDS AND INTERESTS OF STUDENTS
Study of this documentary series will provide studentswith the opportunity to address theconcept of discovery through the exploration of the experiences of six Australians required to live as refugees for a month.
Students will be engaged by the way in which the participants from diverse backgrounds are variously affected by their experiences and how their preconceived views are challenged by the reality of the situations and people they encounter. Students will find the reality television show formula familiar and engagingwhenemployed inthe service of aserious contemporary issue,and will be drawn to consider their own values in relation to those portrayed in the series.
"OPPORTUNITIES FOR CHALLENGING TEACHING AND LEARNING
The series provides students with the opportunity to consider the role of the media inshaping public opinion and to analyse the ways people and issues are represented through language, structure and visual choices. Students may also critically analyse the production values and the techniques used in theseries and evaluate their effectiveness in relation to audience, purpose and context. Through the special forum The Response,participants are provided with opportunities toassess the waysin whichthey have been represented in the series. Students may test those assessments against their own considered responses."
Source: NSW Board of Studies. Annotations of Selected Texts.
Getting started
You can access this film and interviews with Ang Lee at school from the TV4Education drive. In addition, you can currently watch The Life of Pi on Youtube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozLjZEGPdvI]. Make sure you've watched the whole movie at least three times and the most important scenes (for your interpretation) over and over and over till you know every word and every shot by heart!
The Cohen Curricula (Thanks for making them free, Pamela!) have a series of worksheets [http://thecohencurricula.wordpress.com/2014/07/21/free-worksheets-and-links-for-go-back-to-where-you-came-from-series-one/] to complete while you are viewing the series:
Discovering who [https://thecohencurricula.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/discover-who.pdf]
Discover what [https://thecohencurricula.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/discover-what.pdf]
Discover where [https://thecohencurricula.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/discover-where.pdf]
Discover when [https://thecohencurricula.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/discover-when.pdf]
Discover how [https://thecohencurricula.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/discover-how.pdf]
Discover why [https://thecohencurricula.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/discover-why.pdf]
Critical Reviews and interviews
MammaMia [http://www.mamamia.com.au/news/go-back-to-where-you-came-from-sbs-refugee-documentary/]
Analysis and Essay Writing
Viviana Matt [http://www.slideshare.net/vivianamattiello/go-back-to-where-you-came-from-documentary] has a great slide show about essay writing on this text
Trinity Grammar's library [http://trinity.nsw.libguides.com/c.php?g=5557&p=24219] has an excellent page of links for this text. It is an excellent starting point for your study as it includes links to government documents and media articles. these documents are an outstanding introduction to the context of the film and could form useful related texts if your entire essay is focused on the refugee experience, the way the media manipulates the values and beliefs of a society.
The State Library has a link toe the resource Don't go back to where you came from [http://guides.sl.nsw.gov.au/content.php?pid=472895&sid=5224195]. You will need to apply for membership of the state library to access this resources, which you can do here [http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/using/access/register_card.html?HomeLink=howdoi]
SBS http://www.sbs.com.au/goback/schools/resources/series/1] has also produced a set of resources for classroom use.
Reviews of Go back to where you came from
Through the Looking Glass [http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/through-the-looking-glass/story-fn9n8gph-1226456345224?nk=b60f508dba8af38b9652b4e0bdf238f9]
Responses to Go back to where you came from
This episode of ABC's Q&A [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfvZm6xZtDw] is a talkshow in which audience members ask a panel of 'experts' about the issues raised in Go back to where you came from.
Both this BBC article [http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-13890810] and the comments that follow it, give a good indication of audience reactions to this text.
"MERIT AND CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE
The first series of Go Back to Where You Came Fromwas the highest-rating SBS television production of 2011, and a second series was screened in 2012. In 2013, it won Most Outstanding Factual Program at the Logie (Australian television) Awards. Series 1 of this topical documentary follows a diverse group of six Australians as they retrace the journey of asylum seekers. They experience an Australian detention centre, aleaky boat on the Timor Sea, immigration raids in Malaysia, a Kenyan refugee camp, slums in Jordan, and warzones in the Congo and Iraq.
"NEEDS AND INTERESTS OF STUDENTS
Study of this documentary series will provide studentswith the opportunity to address theconcept of discovery through the exploration of the experiences of six Australians required to live as refugees for a month.
Students will be engaged by the way in which the participants from diverse backgrounds are variously affected by their experiences and how their preconceived views are challenged by the reality of the situations and people they encounter. Students will find the reality television show formula familiar and engagingwhenemployed inthe service of aserious contemporary issue,and will be drawn to consider their own values in relation to those portrayed in the series.
"OPPORTUNITIES FOR CHALLENGING TEACHING AND LEARNING
The series provides students with the opportunity to consider the role of the media inshaping public opinion and to analyse the ways people and issues are represented through language, structure and visual choices. Students may also critically analyse the production values and the techniques used in theseries and evaluate their effectiveness in relation to audience, purpose and context. Through the special forum The Response,participants are provided with opportunities toassess the waysin whichthey have been represented in the series. Students may test those assessments against their own considered responses."
Source: NSW Board of Studies. Annotations of Selected Texts.
Getting started
You can access this film and interviews with Ang Lee at school from the TV4Education drive. In addition, you can currently watch The Life of Pi on Youtube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozLjZEGPdvI]. Make sure you've watched the whole movie at least three times and the most important scenes (for your interpretation) over and over and over till you know every word and every shot by heart!
The Cohen Curricula (Thanks for making them free, Pamela!) have a series of worksheets [http://thecohencurricula.wordpress.com/2014/07/21/free-worksheets-and-links-for-go-back-to-where-you-came-from-series-one/] to complete while you are viewing the series:
Discovering who [https://thecohencurricula.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/discover-who.pdf]
Discover what [https://thecohencurricula.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/discover-what.pdf]
Discover where [https://thecohencurricula.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/discover-where.pdf]
Discover when [https://thecohencurricula.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/discover-when.pdf]
Discover how [https://thecohencurricula.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/discover-how.pdf]
Discover why [https://thecohencurricula.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/discover-why.pdf]
Critical Reviews and interviews
MammaMia [http://www.mamamia.com.au/news/go-back-to-where-you-came-from-sbs-refugee-documentary/]
Analysis and Essay Writing
Viviana Matt [http://www.slideshare.net/vivianamattiello/go-back-to-where-you-came-from-documentary] has a great slide show about essay writing on this text
Trinity Grammar's library [http://trinity.nsw.libguides.com/c.php?g=5557&p=24219] has an excellent page of links for this text. It is an excellent starting point for your study as it includes links to government documents and media articles. these documents are an outstanding introduction to the context of the film and could form useful related texts if your entire essay is focused on the refugee experience, the way the media manipulates the values and beliefs of a society.
The State Library has a link toe the resource Don't go back to where you came from [http://guides.sl.nsw.gov.au/content.php?pid=472895&sid=5224195]. You will need to apply for membership of the state library to access this resources, which you can do here [http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/using/access/register_card.html?HomeLink=howdoi]
SBS http://www.sbs.com.au/goback/schools/resources/series/1] has also produced a set of resources for classroom use.
Reviews of Go back to where you came from
Through the Looking Glass [http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/through-the-looking-glass/story-fn9n8gph-1226456345224?nk=b60f508dba8af38b9652b4e0bdf238f9]
Responses to Go back to where you came from
This episode of ABC's Q&A [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfvZm6xZtDw] is a talkshow in which audience members ask a panel of 'experts' about the issues raised in Go back to where you came from.
Both this BBC article [http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-13890810] and the comments that follow it, give a good indication of audience reactions to this text.