Ideas connecting stories by Meg Brydon https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q en-us 2022-07-24 09:07:42 UTC 2022-08-23 04:08:51 UTC hello@padlet.com Which big ideas connect the stories from our 5 different collections? megbrydon1 https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2248722812 Add ideas in a green post and connect them to the names of the stories. You can add specific examples or evidence from the stories as you notice them, in a blue post.]]> 2022-07-24 09:09:27 UTC https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2248722812 White Bread Dreaming megbrydon1 https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2248722842 2022-07-24 09:09:42 UTC https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2248722842 Potato Country megbrydon1 https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2248722868 2022-07-24 09:09:55 UTC https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2248722868 Surprising Myself megbrydon1 https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2248722917 2022-07-24 09:10:16 UTC https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2248722917 Freedom of Heart megbrydon1 https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2248722936 2022-07-24 09:10:30 UTC https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2248722936 The Relative Advantages of Learning my Language megbrydon1 https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2248723017 2022-07-24 09:11:05 UTC https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2248723017 race as barrier megbrydon1 https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2248930985 2022-07-25 01:19:10 UTC https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2248930985 Kirsty's dad can't get a job because he is a "coloured man" megbrydon1 https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2248931589 2022-07-25 01:20:09 UTC https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2248931589 cocotaylor https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2249149102 Feeling of confinement]]> 2022-07-25 07:26:02 UTC https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2249149102 cocotaylor https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2249150488 Kirsty said "We felt we were trapped - in this new country"]]> 2022-07-25 07:28:12 UTC https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2249150488 Freya Pangbourne https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2249525130 Amy doesn't want to learn Chinese because she thinks that it isn't important even though it is part of her culture.]]> 2022-07-25 23:45:42 UTC https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2249525130 Freya Pangbourne https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2249526189 juxtaposed to the title of the story]]> 2022-07-25 23:47:55 UTC https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2249526189 Rejecting culture megbrydon1 https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2249538400 2022-07-26 00:15:04 UTC https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2249538400 Not recognising a separate/distinct culture megbrydon1 https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2249539399 2022-07-26 00:16:22 UTC https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2249539399 "I thought all dads did this" megbrydon1 https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2249539617 2022-07-26 00:16:44 UTC https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2249539617 The importance of family members in connection to culture megbrydon1 https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2249540094 2022-07-26 00:17:36 UTC https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2249540094 Her dad tells her "the land can and will provide everything you need without exception" megbrydon1 https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2249540633 2022-07-26 00:18:26 UTC https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2249540633 "Dad would say that we are salt water people..." megbrydon1 https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2249542932 2022-07-26 00:20:52 UTC https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2249542932 noa and alice https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2250376005 amy doesn't learn chinese because she doesn't consider it important enough, but it is part of her culture.]]> 2022-07-27 04:50:38 UTC https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2250376005 https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2250378942 her dad is a very important part of her childhood and life.]]> 2022-07-27 04:56:55 UTC https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2250378942 elly polglase https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2250379175 the dad is a big part of shannons life and helps her through the racial barrier ]]> 2022-07-27 04:57:27 UTC https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2250379175 Feeling of uncontrollable seperation from others https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2250379326 2022-07-27 04:57:53 UTC https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2250379326 cocotaylor https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2250380297 Shannon constantly refers in the second paragraph to grass and dillybags. This is a metaphor about the traditional bags made by her culture (Indigenous Australian) that she is unaware of.]]> 2022-07-27 04:59:51 UTC https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2250380297 cocotaylor https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2250382005 Shannon lived "on the outskirts of Bankstown, which, at the time, was a very Anglo-Saxon area" and she and her family felt to confined to themselves because growing up Shannon lived in a very white Christian area.]]> 2022-07-27 05:03:21 UTC https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2250382005 Imogen Perrett https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2250382080 Adapting oneself to the world

]]> 2022-07-27 05:03:30 UTC https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2250382080 https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2250385137 by rejecting chinese culture amy also rejects her grandfather. Her grandfather was depicted to contrast amy greatly. where she can barely speak chinese, her grandfather doesn't know much english. She rejects chinese culture, but her grandfather spends a lot of time writing chinese poetry. Because her culture and her grandfather are so tied together, by refusing to participate in chinese culture makes a large part of his identity inaccessible to her, separating them further.]]> 2022-07-27 05:10:07 UTC https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2250385137 not understanding their experiences https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2250388471 2022-07-27 05:17:52 UTC https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2250388471 There isn't a lot of disability awareness Isis says "I hadn't encounter disabilities much" which shows that there isn't enough awareness. https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2250388621 2022-07-27 05:18:16 UTC https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2250388621 feeling of insecurity https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2250388724 2022-07-27 05:18:22 UTC https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2250388724 Negative Connotation of being different https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2250891629 2022-07-28 01:50:38 UTC https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2250891629 cocotaylor https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2250902845 In Freedom of Heart, Holly is in denial of her sexuality and is trying to deny it by convincing herself she only likes boys in the 4th paragraph. Although this is not rejecting culture, it is similar because she is rejecting her identity.]]> 2022-07-28 02:09:53 UTC https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2250902845 cocotaylor https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2250903942 In Freedom of Heart, Holly feels confined or restricted from coming out because "Balmain boys don't cry", and that is a metaphor for the stereotypical place she lived in so she was expected to be like every other straight girl in the town.]]> 2022-07-28 02:11:50 UTC https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2250903942 https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2250904644 "It was better if you didn't actually look like a lesbian" which shows that even with the world being more progressive at that time you still had to conform to societies standards of what a lesbian "looked like" and make yourself "fit in" with people that discriminate you]]> 2022-07-28 02:13:11 UTC https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2250904644 elly polglase https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2250905774 On the first page, last paragraph Holly already has a tough childhood because being part of the LGBTQIA+ community wasn't "normal" and not many people accepted it ]]> 2022-07-28 02:15:08 UTC https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2250905774 Isis says that "any of the differences I had to other kids I put down as a quirk" https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2250906485 2022-07-28 02:16:23 UTC https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2250906485 elly polglase https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2250909787 "fire in their hearts" is a metaphor to keep being themselves and being who they are, they also have hope and being encouraged throughout having race as a barrier]]> 2022-07-28 02:22:06 UTC https://padlet.com/megbrydon1/bc682oy557vhy42q/wish/2250909787