Guidance on ORTs – Standard English

Recommended Text Types:

Note: DO NOT use a text that is the same text type as your prescribed text.

Short Films / Short Stories / Feature Articles / Poetry
Artworks / Photographic Series / Picture Books / Documentaries
Advertisements / Cartoons / Memoirs / Graphic Novels

CHANGING PERSPECTIVES/DISCOVERY: Some suggestions….

Picture Books: (these may/may not be found in the Library)

COMPOSER/LINK / TITLE
Shaun Tan / The Lost Thing; The Arrival; Rules of Summer; The Red Tree; The Viewer; Eric; Tales from Outer Suburbia; The Rabbits
Irena Kobald and Freya Blackwood / My Two Blankets
Paul Fleischman / Weslandia
Peter Brown / My Teacher is a Monster
Li Cunxin and Anne Spudvilas / The Peasant Prince
Matt Ottley / Requiem for a Beast
Rebecca McRitchie & Celeste Hulme / Edward and the Great Discovery
W.E. Joyce / The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
Karin Gruss and Tobias Krejtschi / One Red Shoe
Armin Greder / The Island
Dr Seuss / Oh, The Places You’ll Go
Maurice Sendak / Where the Wild Things Are
Danny Parker & Matt Ottley / Parachute
Anh Do, Suzanne Do & Bruce Whatley / The Little Refugee
Margaret Wild and Freya Blackwood / The Treasure Box
David Wiesner / 7 Sector 7
Nadia Wheatley / Luke’s Way of Looking
Aaron Becker / Journey
Soizick Meister / Mr. M and The Red Thread
Alison Lester / Are We There Yet?
Jeannie Baker / Windows
Oscar Wild and Del Kathryn Barton / The Nightingale and the Rose

Graphic Novel:

COMPOSER/LINK / TITLE
Martin Jenkins / Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver
Gene Luen Yang / American Born Chinese
Khaled Hosseini / The Kite Runner
Art Spiegelman / Maus: a survivor’s tale
Neil Gaiman / Coraline

Short Stories:

COMPOSER/LINK / TITLE
Tim Winton / Big World; The Water was Deep and Went Forever Down.
Alice Walker / The Flower
Daryl Gregory / Second Person, Present Tense
Robert Cormier / Moustache
Julio Cortizar / The Night Face-Up
Kate Chopin / The Story of an Hour
SulamithIshKishor / Appointment with Love
ABC Short Stories

Nam Le / The Boat
Sushma Joshi / The Discovery of the High Lama
Dorris Lessing / Through the Tunnel; The Second Hut
Arnold Zable / The Wall
James Thurber / The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Nadia Wheatley / Alien
F. Scott Fitzgerald / The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Short Films:

COMPOSER/LINK / TITLE
/ The Candidate
/ Other Side of Yesterday
/ Photo Booth – Tropfest 2012
YulinKuang / Irene Lee, Girl Detective
/ 23 degrees 5 minutes
/ Fisher
/ Birthday Boy
/ Onism: The Awareness of How Little of the World You’ll Experience
/ The Home Video – Tropfest 2014
/ Moving On
/ Missing Her – Tropfest 2011
/ The Unspoken – Tropfest 2011
/ Short of the Week website – a range of films
/ The Light and the Little Girl
/ More
/ Identity
Taser - Tropfest
/ Ratsismos-tzafar

Documentary/Pod Cast:

COMPOSER/LINK / TITLE
SBS / ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ Series
ABC - Australian Story / Megan Washington - Talk of the Town
Hack on Triple J / Variety of segments
BBC / ‘Discovery BBC – Science’Documentary Series
This American Life / A Little Bit of Knowledge
Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman / ‘The Long Way Round’ Documentary Series
David Beckham / ‘Into the Unknown’ Documentary Series
David Guggenheim / An Inconvenient Truth
TED Talks / A range on this theme

Advertisements:

COMPOSER/LINK / TITLE
Ancestry.com.au / Discovery Your Story; Doors/James Pritcher; Doors/Louise Abbey
Discovery Channel / Discovery Channel Song
Tourism Victoria / Lose Yourself in Melbourne
Discover Newcastle / Newcastle Now
BazLuhmann and Tourism Australia / ‘Come Walkabout’ Series
Thai Life Insurance / Unsung Hero

Feature Article/Memoir

COMPOSER/LINK / TITLE
Darcy Moore
/ Digging Deeper
Amy Choi - The Age
/ The Relative Advantages of Relearning my Language
Sydney Morning Herald – Sunday Life Magazine / Range of Articles
Linda Neil – Daily Life
/ City of Joy: An Indian Adventure
Raidah Shah Idil –Lip Magazine / Mountains, Moonsets and Migrating Camels: the moments that led to my self-discovery
David Grann / The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
Alice Pung - Editor / Growing Up Asian in Australia - Anthology
Carina Hoang / Boat people: personal stories from the Vietnamese Exodus 1975-1996