HSC English Standard
Refer to outcomes 2, 4, 5, 6 and 10.

HSC English Advanced
Refer to outcomes 2, 4, 5, 6 and 10.

Possible activities

Select the activities you want to assist you with your rap point 2 response.

Teachers of students in the Standard and ESL courses may need to support the learning of their students as they work through these activities.

1. Note that the composers of the texts included in this rap convey ideas about belonging or not belonging through a variety of language modes, forms, features and structures.
2. Access the rap blog and explore or discuss responses to Rap point 1.
3. Teachers may wish to share the strategies they are using with class groups and individual HSC students using the HSC Belonging rap blog. Teachers seeking additional ideas could ask such questions on the teacher page.

To help you reach your conclusions for your Rap point 2 response consider the following:

• Notions of belonging, or not belonging, often operate on the basis of an in group/out group dichotomy (opposing views). Use the Social identity theory sheet as a discussion starter. Read and discuss the ideas outlined.
• Focusing on your chosen text, establish who is included and who is excluded, in terms of in group/out group divisions. Does it change? How? Why? You may wish to use mind map software to note ideas.
• Use the questions in Rap sheet 4 to focus your thinking and discuss your chosen text. Make notes on Rap sheet 4 or a mindmap, electronic or otherwise, of your choice.
• Compose a class (or individual) summary (approximately 300 words) of your findings and send it to the rap.
• If time is available, consider the optional Focus question activity.
• In order to construct your Rap point 2 response (approximately 300 words), clarify the purpose of the rap blog post, identifying the audience and the detail required to achieve the purpose. Consider appropriate voice, modality, greeting and email signature, for example. Using correct blog and Book rap etiquette (see Book rap FAQs for further details), post the introduction to the rapblog.
• Access, read and discuss responses from other rappers. You may wish to respond to other rappers responses to rap point 2 on the rapblog.

Focus question: optional activity

(This requires an extended response and could be completed as a follow up activity after engaging with Rap points 1, 2 and 3).

Referring to your prescribed text and at least one of the texts presented in the rap, respond to the following question:

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody. ~ Mother Theresa How has study of your prescribed text and your chosen text(s) expanded your understanding of the significance of belonging?

*In your response, consider the ways in which composers convince us of the significance of belonging.

Posting response to Rap point 2

• Prepare, edit and save your class, group or individual response to Rap point 2
• use a computer, for example, in the school library to access, the HSC Belonging blog to post the response to Rap point 2.