The Exploring Transitions elective in Module C of the Standard English course requires students to find a related text. The list below represents my suggestions. I will update it as I find new potential texts.
- Set No Path (short film)
- Marisa (short film)
- ‘Fourwalls: London‘ (short film)
- Freedom Writers (film)
- ‘Two Words’ by Isabel Allende (short story)
- ‘And of Clay We Are Created’ by Isabel Allende (short story)
- ‘Making it in America‘ (short film)
- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (film)
- Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (film)
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (novel)
- A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah (memoir)
- Persepolis (film or graphic novel)
- A Streetcar Named Desire (play)
- Over a Thousand Hills I Walk With You by Hanna Jansen (biography)
- Maestro by Peter Goldsworthy (novel)
- Room (novel)
- Briar Rose (novel)
- Hairspray (film)
- Girl Rising (film)
- The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho (novel)
- The Kite Runner (novel, film or graphic novel)
- My Fair Lady (musical)
- ‘The Moment Before the Gun Went Off’ by Nadine Gordimer (short story)
- The Arrival by Shaun Tan (picture book)
- Eric by Shaun Tan (picture book)
- The Heart and the Bottle by Oliver Jeffers (picture book)
- Martin’s Big Words (picture book)
- ‘To This Day‘ by Shane Koyczan (poem or graphic novel)
- El Deafo by Cece Bell (graphic novel)
- Nutshell by Ian McEwan (novel)
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba (novel/memoir)
- The Door (short film)
- The Book of Mormon (musical)
- Grave of the Fireflies (film)
- Scattered Lives (play)
- Hunt for the Wilderpeople (film)
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