Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Making Connections - 'The Arrival' By Shaun Tan


Thinking, exploring, questioning and responding

 This afternoon we viewed and made sense of the sophisticated picture book ‘The Arrival’ By Shaun Tan.

The Arrival is a migrant story told as a series of wordless images that might seem to come from a long forgotten time. A man leaves his wife and child in an impoverished town, seeking better prospects in an unknown country on the other side of a vast ocean. He eventually finds himself in a bewildering city of foreign customs, peculiar animals, curious floating objects and indecipherable languages.

The focus for the lesson was ‘Making Connections’ Exploring the links between the story and our current unit. We also looked at the challenges facing people in new environments.


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