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Making Connections Book 1: Overcoming challenges

Creative ideas and activities for exploring the links beyond a text

Structured around the rich and thought-provoking theme, overcoming challenges, this book begins with a particular text before it explores possible subthemes and texts for comparison. Information sheets draw together the rich range of creative, insightful ideas presented and worksheets help students to consolidate the information and practise their connection-making skills.

Ages: 12-15 | Pages: 52 | Code: 5642 | ISBN: 9781927190005

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Yvette Krohn

Yvette Krohn has taught English for the past 18 years, first in South Africa and later in New Zealand, where her main role has been teaching high-level thinking courses, including gifted and talented education, extension and scholarship classes. She has been a faculty head of languages and an assistant principal, as well as a lecturer of communications and learning styles at Lincoln University. Passionate about thinking skills, Yvette has a particular interest in incorporating philosophy, psychology and social theory into the English curriculum, primarily through the medium of film.

Contents

Introduction4
How do students make connections?4
How is this book structured?4
Orientation to the unit5
Overcoming the challenge of fear9
What is fear?9
A psychological approach to fear10
A philosophical approach to fear13
Exploring further with other texts16
Looking worldwide19
Overcoming the challenge of finding acceptance and a sense of belonging22
What is acceptance?22
A psychological approach to acceptance and belonging22
A sociological approach to acceptance and belonging24
Exploring further with other texts26
Looking worldwide27
Overcoming the challenge of a rite of passage31
What is a rite of passage?31
A sociological/anthropological approach to the rite of passage31
Exploring further with other texts35
Looking worldwide38
Overcoming the challenge of family situations42
What is a family?42
Parenting styles and family conflict44
Birth order45
Absent fathers47
Exploring further with other texts49
Looking worldwide50