General comments
Most of you have presented very compelling accounts of immigrant journeys, which I think will help you understand The Immigrant Chronicles.
This activity suggests to me that you need to improve your understanding of text types.
An interview is part of the discussion text type. Here is an overview of the discussion text type:
Purpose of Discussion Text type:
· to present information about more than one side of an issue - the for and against aspects, or perspectives, of an issue,
· to form opinions and give reasons for them
· to make informed decisions about an issue and make recommendations based on evidence
· Debate, interview, newspapers articles, essay
Structure of discussion text type
· opening statement presenting the issue
· Arguments for and supporting evidence
· Arguments against and supporting evidence
· concluding recommendation, summary and conclusion
· (alternatively, argument/counter argument a point at a time)
To improve your interview:
1. Develop a better introduction.
A. Introduce guest and background/context
B. Introduce some of the issues to be explored.
2 Explore ideas in the responses of the interviewee.
A. Comment on responses.
B. Ask follow up questions.
3. Link to Bos journey.
4. Have a conclusion where you summarise insights and sign off.
Follow up activity for learning journal
A) What have you learned about the immigrant experience from your interview?
B) Analyse this person’s experience in terms of the BoS description of physical journeys.
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A) I have learnt from the immigrant experience that people can make choices not fully knowing what lies ahead of them but rather make a choice based on the hope that they will be able to have a better life. Also i have learnt that people who immigrate to Australia usually face difficulties but they always end up overcoming them in some way or another.
Good comments, Warrinator. You could link these to Road not taken. However, don't some texts suggest that migrants do not overcome all difficulties?
good point- my grandparents migrated here like 50 years ago and they still cant speak a word of english. (i know its not a text type but still)
Peater--another good point: a concrete example beats a generalisation any day. So how do you commmunicate with your grandparents, or do you? How would you describe your relationship with them? (BTW--you've just created a text...)
Yes peter your parents can't speak english but they still managed to be able to survive in this country and create a family. look where you have ended up, in a private school due to your grandparents making the effort to come over here and persist
what about immigrants that spend the best part of their lives in detention centres? Although it may be true for some families; the journey of immigration can end very badly... And it is not like just those who illegally immigrant have a bad endings; im sure some of them settle in fine
we think that immigrant journeys end happily becausethey are the only ones that we ever hear about... we dont hear about the ones that end wih people dying or failing in some way, its only the hopeful ones that we hear
i think that we do hear about those.. they are the ones we here about on the news in the detention centres, the one who have their identities hidden on "Australian Story" just because they have illegally immigrated.
detention centres are the extremes of the bad migrant journeys. what we mean is that they come over here legally, but they just cannot assimilate into australian society, like learn english which stops them from getting jobs, and it just goes down.
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