EAL
Alice Pung - guest speaker
STUDENT REFLECTION: ALICE PUNG VISIT
On the Monday 12 February, Alice Pung the editor of the book called ‘Growing up Asian in Australia’ came to Footscray City College to talk to the Year 11 EAL class. Alice talked about the process of publishing the book and how she felt connected to each of the individual stories. She talked about her own story and how her parents were able to come to Australia. She also explained how she was treated during her childhood and how she was called a ‘power point’. She didn’t understand what it meant until her friend told her that she was being called ‘power point’ because of her face.
Later that afternoon, she also talked about how she had to look after her baby sister because her mum had to work in the garage. She didn’t have time to spend playing around with her friends. Sometimes, her friends asked her what her mum was doing in the garage but she never told them because her mum explained to her that if the government found out that she was making jewellery and selling it without paying tax, the government would take them back to their country. Studying to become a lawyer later in life, Alice found out that her mum was being exploited and her fears were unfounded. Overall, the class learnt to connect the text we’re studying in class to the reality.
Mike Thouk - Year 11 EAL student
LITERARY UNDERGROUND HIP HOP SONG
Last year, the students in the Year 9 EAL class participated in the Literary Underground program. The program aims to engage grade 7-9 students in their own language learning through creative activities (poetry, drama, photography, music, board games, podcasts, etc.) that appeal to them. After attending three workshops run by local artists, the students decided to collaborate with the hip-hop artist Joe Motley. In collaboration with him, they wrote the lyrics for a hip hop song and some brave students even sang their lines, which they recorded and produced as a song.
You can listen to their amazing work on Sound Cloud - link below:
https://soundcloud.com/100-story-building/stress
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