Guided Text: “The Nowhere Land Where Children On The Move Are
Someone Else's Problem” by Sarah Crowe - U.N.I.C.E.F
Someone Else's Problem” by Sarah Crowe - U.N.I.C.E.F
We will have met the success criteria when we
- Can work out the meaning of new vocabulary.
- Locate information within a text.
- Make connections between ideas
- Synthesize and summarize key ideas
- Make links between our own lives and the lives of others
Pre-read discussion
What is a Peugeot 404? 
What is the difference between a migrant, a refugee and an asylum seeker?
A refugee is someone who has fled their country in search for a safer place to
live. They are usually people who have left due to war and fighting or because
of unfair rights. Lots of refugees are children without parents who travel alone
until they get sent to refugee camps “concentration camps”. Or get picked up
by human traffickers or people smugglers who ship them off to different
countries in big shipping containers. Lots of refugees die while in the containers
due to lack of oxygen, lack of food and dehydration.
live. They are usually people who have left due to war and fighting or because
of unfair rights. Lots of refugees are children without parents who travel alone
until they get sent to refugee camps “concentration camps”. Or get picked up
by human traffickers or people smugglers who ship them off to different
countries in big shipping containers. Lots of refugees die while in the containers
due to lack of oxygen, lack of food and dehydration.
An Asylum Seeker is a Refugee who has traveled over a course of time to a
large defined area where the government has sent the Army Or the United Nation
Troops to set up a camp and a medium sized Safety Asylum. The Refugees are
rather put into the 1st class safe Asylum or are in the Refugee camp.
large defined area where the government has sent the Army Or the United Nation
Troops to set up a camp and a medium sized Safety Asylum. The Refugees are
rather put into the 1st class safe Asylum or are in the Refugee camp.
A migrant is someone who chooses to move to a different country not
because they want to for a whole lot of different. Reasons maybe like
economical reasons, maybe they are low on water and food.
because they want to for a whole lot of different. Reasons maybe like
economical reasons, maybe they are low on water and food.
Where is Niger? Niger is located in West Africa, bordering
Chad, Nigeria and Libya.Where is the Sahara? How big is the Sahara compared
to New Zealand? The Sahara is roughly thirty times bigger than New Zealand.
to New Zealand? The Sahara is roughly thirty times bigger than New Zealand.
Define:
Wasteland -
ghetto,
milling about,
Turmeric-coloured,
elusive Eldorado,
throngs,
smuggler,
daunting,
clampdown,
frontier,
bearing the brunt,
from pillar to post,
Guinean,
gesticulating tirade,
impoverished,
ironically,
threadbare,
a motley bag,
dynamics,
transiting through,
traumatized,
undetected,
gangly,
flip flops,
lucrative,
GPS,
glitch,
philosophers,
grim,
Read the text to yourself and make notes/highlight/bullet point as you
read. You are looking for the main idea in this article. Be ready to discuss your
notes.
read. You are looking for the main idea in this article. Be ready to discuss your
notes.
I think the author has written this text to raise awareness towards children
refugees from over the world with no home. These children have been returned
to Niger. A place where most of them aren't from and now they have to travel
across the sahara desert.
The author in this text is biased when she says
“nothing could be further from the gates of paradise than this scorching unearthly
wasteland" and “stranded with dashed hopes and unfullfiled dreams.”
“onto a bone dry open plane with a few thread bare tents”. These are all signs
of bias towards the refugees. The author is making it sound a lot worse than
it possibly could be. She is making it sound like they are living in unbearable
conditions and would do anything for a chance of freedom including walking
across the Sahara desert with no food or water and nothing to protect their
feet from the scorching hot deadly sea of sand. Of course this is all quite
possibly true but you would have to be there to know. The author is making
it sound very bad (Which it is) To make the reader sympathies for the refugees.
The key points in this text are:
refugees from over the world with no home. These children have been returned
to Niger. A place where most of them aren't from and now they have to travel
across the sahara desert.
The author in this text is biased when she says
“nothing could be further from the gates of paradise than this scorching unearthly
wasteland" and “stranded with dashed hopes and unfullfiled dreams.”
“onto a bone dry open plane with a few thread bare tents”. These are all signs
of bias towards the refugees. The author is making it sound a lot worse than
it possibly could be. She is making it sound like they are living in unbearable
conditions and would do anything for a chance of freedom including walking
across the Sahara desert with no food or water and nothing to protect their
feet from the scorching hot deadly sea of sand. Of course this is all quite
possibly true but you would have to be there to know. The author is making
it sound very bad (Which it is) To make the reader sympathies for the refugees.
The key points in this text are:
Nothing could be further from the gates of paradise than this scorching,
unearthly wasteland stretching out as far as the eye can see and beyond.
unearthly wasteland stretching out as far as the eye can see and beyond.
Arrivals into Italy from January to early June this year were down by two
thirds compared to the same period last year when 60,000 crossed over
from North Africa.
thirds compared to the same period last year when 60,000 crossed over
from North Africa.
Since November last year, more than 8000 West Africans, including
2000 children, have been returned to Niger from Algeria, with another
900 refugees and asylum seekers from East Africa transferred from Libya
awaiting cumbersome and slow resettlement processes. According
to Unicef estimates some 120 children drowned at sea between
January and May. At least there are coastguards at sea. No one patrols
the vast and deadly sea of sand.
2000 children, have been returned to Niger from Algeria, with another
900 refugees and asylum seekers from East Africa transferred from Libya
awaiting cumbersome and slow resettlement processes. According
to Unicef estimates some 120 children drowned at sea between
January and May. At least there are coastguards at sea. No one patrols
the vast and deadly sea of sand.
Hi Arly I love your information it is the best piece of work I have read and over the past years I have read a lot. I like the way your not moaning that there are so many refugees in the world or that there are people who are leaving their country because their lack of water supply but I think you should think about attributing the photos that you have used.
ReplyDeleteI like your perspective and the way you put your words together, they have a nice flow. I think you need to read over your words to check for spelling and punctuation because I do know what you are capable of. Your work shows that you have spent some time thinking about your content. I can tell you have a good understanding of the topic. Well done Arly.
ReplyDeleteFrom Mum.