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GLOBAL ISSUES

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4 questions
TASK:
1. READ/EXAMINE THE TEXTS BELOW
2. SELECT AT LEAST TWO TEXTS
3. DECIDE WHICH GLOBAL ISSUE IS MOST FITTING FOR EACH TEXT
4 WRITE A BRIEF JUSTIFICATION USING 2-3 PIECES OF EVIDENCE FROM THE TEXT
***CHALLENGE ONE: PAIR TWO TEXTS WITH ONE GLOBAL ISSUE
5. POST THE TITLE OF THE TEXT+ YOUR GLOBAL ISSUE + A BRIEF JUSTIFICATION ON LINOIT: http://linoit.com/users/DIA-MR-ENG/canvases/GLOBAL%20ISSUES
**IF YOU HAVE TIME: READ AND GIVE A POSITIVE COMMENT TO ANOTHER GLOBAL ISSUE UPLOADED ON THE LINOIT: http://linoit.com/users/DIA-MR-ENG/canvases/GLOBAL%20ISSUES
****CHALLENGE TWO: FIND YOUR OWN SAMPLES FOR A YOUR OWN GLOBAL ISSUE
SUGGESTED GLOBAL ISSUES
  1. Culture, identity and community
  2. Beliefs, values and education
  3. Politics, power and justice
  4. Art, creativity and the imagination
  5. Science, technology and the environment
REMEMBER A GLOBAL ISSUES IS A TOPIC THAT CONCERNS YOU ON A GLOBAL AND A LOCAL LEVEL
YOU CAN CREATE YOUR OWN GLOBAL ISSUES
YOUR GLOBAL ISSUES HAS TO BE DEFINED AND SPECIFIC
BELOW YOU FIND MORE SUGGESTED GLOBAL ISSUES:
TEXT ONE - LITERARY
You Begin
Margaret Atwood
You begin this way:
this is your hand,
this is your eye,
that is a fish, blue and flat on the paper, almost the shape of an eye.
This is your mouth, this is an O or a moon, whichever you like.
This is yellow.
Outside the window is the rain, green because it is summer, and beyond that the trees and then the world, which is round and has only the colors of these nine crayons.
This is the world, which is fuller and more difficult to learn than I have said.
You are right to smudge it that way with the red and then the orange: the world burns.
Once you have learned these words you will learn that there are more words than you can ever learn.
The word hand floats above your hand like a small cloud over a lake.
The word hand anchors your hand to this table, your hand is a warm stone I hold between two words.
This is your hand, these are my hands, this is the world, which is round but not flat and has more colors than we can see.
It begins, it has an end, this is what you will come back to, this is your hand.
TEXT TWO - LITERARY
Mushrooms
Song by Sylvia Plath
Lyrics
Overnight, very Whitely, discreetly, Very quietly
Our toes, our noses Take hold on the loam, Acquire the air.
Nobody sees us, Stops us, betrays us; The small grains make room.
Soft fists insist on Heaving the needles, The leafy bedding,
Even the paving. Our hammers, our rams, Earless and eyeless,
Perfectly voiceless, Widen the crannies, Shoulder through holes. We
Diet on water, On crumbs of shadow, Bland-mannered, asking
Little or nothing. So many of us! So many of us!
We are shelves, we are Tables, we are meek, We are edible,
Nudgers and shovers In spite of ourselves. Our kind multiplies:
We shall by morning Inherit the earth. Our foot's in the door.
TEXT THREE - LITERARY
BY CAROL ANN DUFFY
Elvis's Twin Sister Are you lonesome tonight? Do you miss me tonight? Elvis is alive and she’s female: Madonna In the convent, y’all I tend the gardens, watch things grow, pray for the immortal soul of rock ‘n’ roll They call me Sister Presley here. The Reverend Mother digs the way I move my hips just like my brother Gregorian chant drifts out across the herbs, Pascha nostrum immolatus est… I wear a simple habit, darkish hues, a wimple with novice-sewn lace band, a rosary, a chain of keys, a pair of good and sturdy blue suede shoes. I think of it as Graceland here, a land of grace. It puts my trademark slow lopsided smile back on my face Lawdy. I’m alive and well. Long time since I walked down Lonely Street towards Heartbreak Hotel.
BELOW YOU WILL FIND THREE NON-LITERARY TEXTS LABELLED
TEXT FOUR: TOO MANY PEOPLE
TEXT FIVE: NATURE
TEXT SIX: MEN AND WOMEN

EVIDENCE FOR THESE TEXTS INCLUDE CAMERA ANGLES, COLORS, FACIAL EXPRESSIONS, BODY LANGUAGE
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Find a global issue for each text and each image

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Pair up texts with images at least one pair. Select a global issue that works for both.

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Define at least one choice of the global issues.

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Justify your choice/s/ with textual and non-texual evidence