Stories of Chasing Asylum - Unit Overview

This resource has been written to support the film Chasing Asylum and address the content descriptors of the Australian Curriculum: English. Learning activities in this resource are most suitable for use with Year 10 English students, however can be amended and adapted for other year levels and subjects. The lessons incorporate clips from the film Chasing Asylum, as well as a number of other real-world articles and pictures as learning stimulus. The learning activities encourage student participation through movement, group work, visible thinking routines and use of ICT for investigation and demonstration of thinking and learning. The lesson activities support students to create artefacts for the purpose of formative and summative assessment.

Students are required to engage in meaningful reflection at the conclusion of each lesson, and are encouraged to continue their thinking and scrutiny about the topics addressed throughout the lessons. The investigation and learning completed throughout the unit is applied to students’ local context through a scaffolded student-led social action project, wherein students choose an issue to raise awareness around, examine how they will take action and the manner in which they will present their learning for exhibition to a real audience.