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Questions for discussion

Africa aid

1. What were the main issues raised in the Africa aid story?

2. Name two countries in the horn of Africa.

3. What does the drought mean for people living in East Africa?

4. Why are many people going to refugee camps?

5. What is development aid? Give an example of it.

6. Emergency aid is…

7. How much aid is the United Nations saying is needed from countries around the world

a. 1 million

b. 1.4 million

c. 1.4 billion

8. How much emergency aid has Australia given?

9. How do you think more people could be encouraged to donate money?

10. Write a message of support and post it on the BtN Guestbook.

Thinks of ways your class or school can help people affected by drought and famine in East Africa.

Create a profile of an aid agency that is supporting countries in East Africa affected by famine. How is food aid distributed to countries in need?

Fame game

1. In what ways can media attention be good for celebrities?

2. How can it change someone’s life?

3. What impact has the internet had on celebrities?

4. Which TV show did Toby Moulton appear on

a. Australia’s Got Talent

b. Masterchef

c. Australian Idol

5. Why did he decide to pull out of the show?

6. How has technology made it harder for celebrities to keep their lives private?

7. What is the name for people who photograph celebrities?

8. Do you think celebrities have the right to privacy or is it part of their job? Explain your answer.

9. How has your thinking changed since watching the Fame game story?

10. What questions would you like to ask a celebrity about being famous?

`Would you like to be famous?’ Vote in the BtN online poll

Teen sleep

1. What was the main point of the Teen sleep story?

2. Why do we need sleep?

3. What is melatonin?

4. How does it work?

5. About how many hours of sleep a night do teenagers need?

6. Do teenagers release more or less melatonin than adults?

7. What does that mean for their bedtime?

8. What impact could technology have on the time teenagers go to bed?

9. How has your sleep pattern changed over the past 2-3 years? Why?

10. What techniques help you go to sleep?

Test your knowledge in the online Teen sleep quiz. Go to the BtN website and follow the links.

Kids’ comics

1. In your own words, describe what a comic is.

2. When and why did comics become popular?

3. Who was the first comic book superhero?

4. Why has the popularity of comic books declined over the years?

5. Some children are reading comic books ______________.

6. Describe Jos Valdman’s job.

7. How do comics help children learn to read?

8. How do you think comic books could be made more popular?

9. What do you think about comics? Do you like to read them? Why or why not?

10. Should young people be encouraged to read comics? Explain your answer.

What is manga? Investigate the history and features of manga and display the information in a poster or facts sheet. Include pictures in your work.

Sri Lankan footy

1. Briefly summarise the Sri Lankan footy story.

2. Players from which AFL clubs visited Sri Lanka recently?

3. Where is Sri Lanka?

4. What disaster affected Sri Lanka in 2004?

5. Why did the players go to Sri Lanka?

6. How did the Sri Lankans react to the AFL players?

7. What did the kids learn from the football players?

8. How did the players share their experiences with people in Australia?

9. Complete the following sentence: The AFL players hoped the film would show how sport…

10. How did this story make you feel?

Post a message about this story on the BtN guestbook

Fame game

Focus Questions

1. In what ways can media attention be good for celebrities?

2. How can it change someone’s life?

3. What impact has the internet had on celebrities?

4. Which TV show did Toby Moulton appear on

a. Australia’s Got Talent

b. Masterchef

c. Australian Idol

5. Why did he decide to pull out of the show?

6. How has technology made it harder for celebrities to keep their lives private?

7. What is the name for people who photograph celebrities?

8. Do you think celebrities have the right to privacy or is it part of their job? Explain your answer.

9. How has your thinking changed since watching the Fame game story?

10. What questions would you like to ask a celebrity about being famous?

Fame game

Discuss the issues raised in the BtN Price of fame story with students. Ask students to write down the words they associate with celebrity and fame and then come up with their definition of celebrity. What questions do students still have about the topic? Some key questions to explore can include:

• Do you think celebrities have the right to privacy or is it part of their job?

• Is the price of fame worth it? What are the pros and cons?

• Do we pay too much attention to celebrities? Does it take the attention away from more significant news?

• How would you decide what should be made public and what should remain private?

Examine photos of celebrities in newspapers, magazines or online. Which photos do you think are acceptable? Why? Which intrude on their privacy? Why?

What captions or headlines are used to attract the reader’s attention? What language is used?

Vox pops

Students will be finding out what public opinion is by conducting some vox pops. Explain that vox populi (vox pop) means `voice of the people’. It’s a term that is often used in the media to describe interviews with the general public.

On Behind the News we sometimes have a `What do you reckon?’ segment to find out public opinion. Students will create their own `what do you reckon’ recording using video or audio (if possible). They will need to interview a range of people – students, parents, teachers, family and friends. To get a range of opinions, at least five people will need to be interviewed. Students will need to think of one or two questions to ask.

In small groups, students discuss the responses from people they interviewed. What was surprising about the responses? Has their thinking about the issue changed?

Behind the News would like to hear what your view is on fame and celebrities. Post it on the BtN Guestbook

( Related Research Links

ABC Behind the News – Paparazzi



Children’s BBC – Do celebs have a right to a private life?



Kids’ comics

Focus Questions

1. In your own words, describe what a comic is.

2. When and why did comics become popular?

3. Who was the first comic book superhero?

4. Why has the popularity of comic books declined over the years?

5. Some children are reading comic books ______________.

6. Describe Jos Valdman’s job.

7. How do comics help children learn to read?

8. How do you think comic books could be made more popular?

9. What do you think about comics? Do you like to read them? Why or why not?

10. Should young people be encouraged to read comics? Explain your answer.

Comics

Students begin by clarifying their understanding of key words relating to comics.

|Word/term |Student’s meaning |Website or dictionary meaning |

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|panel | | |

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Creating comics can be a great way for students to learn how to develop a story. Students create a sequence, develop characters and understand dialogue and setting.

Students will create a six panel comic with six key scenes from a book they have read. They will need to think about the characters and events they are trying to portray in a few key scenes. The following websites have online tools to help them create their comic





Students can use the following template to help plan their comic.

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Encourage students to display/share their comic strips in the classroom or resource centre.

Further investigations

Interview the school librarian about the advantages/disadvantages of children reading comic books.

What is manga? Investigate the history and features of manga and display the information in a poster or facts sheet. Include pictures in your work.

( Related Research Links

ABC Behind the News – Graphic novels



Oz Comics – Creating a Web comic



BtN: Episode 20 Transcript 2/08/11

On this week's Behind the News.

• Do you really want to be famous? We explore the downsides of celebrity.

• We use sleep science to explain why teenagers like late nights and lie-ins.

• And we see if kids are really into comic books anymore.

Hi I'm Nathan Bazley, welcome to Behind the News. Also on the show today the AFL stars using footy to make friends overseas but before all that:

Africa Aid

Reporter: Nathan Bazley

INTRO: If you were told millions of people are about to die, would you think it would be headline news? And what would you do about it? Over in East Africa right now a horrible drought is putting millions of lives at risk. It's potentially far more deadly than anything else happening on earth right now yet many people aren't rushing to give money to help. Let's take a look.

NATHAN BAZLEY, REPORTER: In Australia, drought looks like this; cracked ground, dead crops and dying animals. At its worst it can mean livelihoods are lost, as farmers are forced to pack-up and move away.

In Africa right now, the cracked ground is the same, as are the animals. But here, millions of people have been forced to go on the move in a desperate search for food and water. They know without it, they and their families will die.

This is all happening to an area known as the Horn of Africa, in countries like Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya. For the people living here, a drought worse than anything for 60 years has turned the place into desert, meaning there's not enough food or water to go around. Their only chance of survival in most cases is to walk to places like the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya.

It's the biggest camp of its kind in the world, where these people have a chance of getting food, water and medical treatment. But 400,000 people have arrived so far, in a camp built for just 90,000; and many more are on the way. If something isn't done, it's feared 10 million people could die across these dry lands. It's a desperate situation that will only get better if countries send aid.

But you might be thinking "don't we send aid all the time? Where is that aid right now?"

NATHAN: Well when it comes to areas of the world doing it tough, there are actually two different types of aid. And these ads usually refer to something called 'development aid'.

Development aid is when money is given to try to stop poverty in the long term. Here are some examples.

A bore or well built for a village would help them get clean water for themselves for years to come. Giving seeds, farming equipment and livestock would help them farm food independently. And educating kids will help them get jobs and hopefully end the poverty cycle, for themselves and their communities. But in times of crisis, like the severe drought Africa is facing, development aid is not enough.

In these times, emergency aid is needed.

Most of it is huge amounts of food, like rice, water, oil and beans; which can be spread out and eaten quickly to save the lives of starving people. It may not sound like a tasty meal, but the main aim is to provide emergency nutrition and give these people the strength they need for another day.

Right now, the UN is calling for $1.4 billion dollars in emergency aid from countries around the world. So that's on top of the usual development aid that countries and other groups usually give. And some of that is starting to trickle in now, including an extra $30 million in emergency aid from the Australian government. But for the sake of the millions here struggling to survive, that trickle needs to become a downpour of either rain, or money.

Presenter: Maybe you could think about ways you could fundraise with your school?

The Wire

All right, let's see what other stories have been making the news this week. Here's Matt with the Wire.

There's relief across financial markets after politicians in the US agreed on a way to pay back the country's debt.

The US was getting really close to not being able to pay back the money it owes and there was fear it could spur on another global financial crisis.

The plan is to bump up how much the country can borrow and they'll also try to save more money through spending cuts.

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A boatload of asylum seekers that arrived on the weekend will be the first group to be sent to Malaysia under the Australian government's new deal.

The 54 people were picked up off the coast of Western Australia and were taken to Christmas Island.

Under the deal, Australia will send 800 asylum seekers to Malaysia in exchange for 4-thousand approved refugees over the next four years.

Price of Fame

Reporter: Kirsty Bennett

INTRO: When many kids are asked what they want to be when they grow up the answer is often "famous". Whether it's through music, TV or sport, it doesn't really matter. It's often simply the worldwide recognition that people really want. But we often read about celebrities struggling to cope under the pressures of fame. So is it really something we should want? Kirsty takes a look.

KIRSTY BENNETT, REPORTER: Fame. Some people have it and others can only dream of it.

KID: Can I have your autograph?!

KIRSTY: There's the attention, the parties, the glamour and the money. But is being in the spotlight really as good as we think it is?

Media attention can be good for celebrities making them more popular so more likely to be able to demand the big bucks. But a lot of the time celebrities get coverage that they don't want. Just imagine that Chilli here has just shot to fame with her debut album. Sure she gets lots of attention and loves to get glammed up. She even has someone to fetch her coffee for her.

WAITER - Here's you double shot latte with skim milk and extra froth!

CHILLI: It's about time!

But it's not all rosy in her day to day life. Simple things are made harder like stepping outside of her house to get the newspaper. Just catching a bite to eat. It can all be spun into a hurtful headline. And it's not just the celebrity in the firing line. Your family and friends could be hounded too.

REPORTER: Do you have a comment? Is anyone in there?

And some "so-called" friends may even start telling nasty stories about what you've done in the past.

FRIEND: Well do I have a story for you!

Many people find fame hard to deal with. Even footy players are expected to be role models, even though they're often just normal young guys with a talent for kicking a ball. And with the internet, celebrities can be made overnight when they're young and often completely unprepared for what's to come.

REBECCA BLACK, SINGER: When I first saw all these nasty comments I did cry. I felt like this was my fault and I shouldn’t have done this and this was all because of me. Pop singer Amy Winehouse saw both sides of fame. She was praised for her music in the early days. But later on she was more often ridiculed as the whole world watched her life fall apart until she eventually died.

IAIN SHEDDEN: MUSIC WRITER: You could say really since the Back to Black became so successful that was pretty much the end of her career then because she really hasn’t been able to function properly since that Grammy success.

The public's desire for fame has made TV talent shows like Australian Idol really popular. A couple of years ago primary school teacher Toby Moulton surprised everyone when he walked away from the competition. His brief taste of fame was enough to put him off.

"After many hours of soul searching and many sleepless nights, I've decided to withdraw from the competition tonight (crowd gasps)"

He's back at school and couldn't be happier.

TOBY MOULTEN, SINGER: It’s a really strange thing becoming well known really quickly to the point that you can't go down to the shops or can't go out with your mates without being recognised and that feeling of being watched is an odd kind of feeling. There's a lot to be said for just finding something you love and just being able to be anonymous and to live I guess a normal life.

It's not just the paparazzi that celebrities have to watch out for. These days nearly everyone has a camera on their phone, and can post bits of gossip on sites like Twitter and Facebook, making it even harder for celebrities to keep their private lives private. Actor Jake Gyllenhaal experienced it first hand, when a fan took a photo of him when he was in the toilet.

So now you've seen the glossy and sometimes the dark side of fame. Maybe the rich and famous really do have a lot to complain about.

Presenter: Poor Chilli. OK let's make 'fame' the subject of our poll this week.

Online Poll

It's a simple question. Would you like to be famous? To vote just head to the BtN website. And in last week’s poll we asked is a carbon tax for Australian businesses a good idea? 31% said yes, but 69% thought it was a bad idea. Interestingly, the last time we asked that question, it was pretty much 50/50. So clearly there's been a shift in opinion.

Teen Sleep

Reporter: Nathan Bazley

INTRO: Now, sleep is something we kinda think we can control. When we close our eyes we'll go to sleep and when our alarm goes off we wake up. And your parents probably think they can control it by telling you when to go to bed. But there's something inside your body that also has a say about when you should go to bed. Let's find out what it is.

NATHAN BAZLEY, REPORTER: Have you ever noticed that as you get older, you feel less and less like falling asleep when your parents tell you? And if you're forced to hit the sack, generally you won't be able to nod off for ages. Then when your alarm goes off early in the morning you're exhausted!

NATHAN: You've probably been told time and time again that you're staying up too late and that you should be more like oldies, who are early to bed and early to rise. But that doesn't really feel right for you, does it?! Well there's a reason for that and it's not because you're being disobedient.

But to find out what that reason is, first we need to find out how sleep works.

In your brain, there is a special area that acts like your body's own clock, and it uses information from your eyes about how much light is around to tell the time. When it gets dark, your brain clock decides it's sleep time and tells another part of your body to release a sleep chemical called melatonin, which makes you sleepy. Then when the sun rises and light hits your eyes in the morning, your brain clock cuts off the melatonin supply and you feel like waking up.

Now teenagers actually need more sleep than adults. About 9 hours instead of 7 to 8. But they have a bit more of a challenge getting it than their parents, because their bodies seem to work differently.

Remember that sleep chemical we told you about before called melatonin? Well teenagers release less of it and they release it slower, meaning they don't drift off to sleep as soon as it gets dark outside. For them, 10pm is more like 8pm!

DR ARTHUR TENG, SLEEP RESEARCHER: So there is no teenager in the world that will want to go to bed at 8pm and expect to fall asleep.

And that also means teens are going to naturally want a few extra hours sleep in the morning too! Sound familiar??

AMELIA HARTLEY: I'd still be awake at two, and I'd look at the clock and then it would be three, and then I'd fall asleep, and then my alarm would go off.

In extreme cases like 16 year old Amelia, it can mean getting next to no sleep at all.

AMELIA: Oh, I was so grumpy. I was irritable, every tiny thing annoyed me and getting at everyone about everything. Grades dropped dramatically.

But a lack of melatonin wasn't her only problem and it's might not be yours either.

PROFESSOR IAN HICKIE, SLEEP RESEARCHER: What appears to be happening increasingly with teenagers now is taking that normal delay and going far too far with it. So through use of computers and technology, and Facebook and iPhones and everything else known to man, teenagers are staying up later and later and later.

Okay so let's lay it out there - when does this scientist say you should be hitting the sack?

PROFESSOR IAN HICKIE: Now for younger teenagers it's still going to be around you know, ten o'clock to eleven o'clock. For older teenagers, maybe slightly later.

But before you run to your parents to ask for a bedtime extension, remember teenagers still need around nine hours of sleep a night. Meaning your big challenge will be asking school to kick off a bit later as well.

Presenter: OK, while we're talking about sleep let's have our first quiz of the show.

Quiz 1

The question is:

Someone who has difficulty falling asleep is said to suffer from what?

Hypersomnia

Narcolepsy

Insomnia

Answer: Insomnia

The other two words refer to people who get too much sleep.

Comics

Reporter: Natasha Thiele

INTRO: Now, comic books have been entertaining people for many decades. They've even helped some kids learn the basics of reading. But these days, with easy access to TV and the internet are comics still popular with kids? Tash looks into it.

NATASHA THIELE, REPORTER: They're known as a funny book, a comic magazine or a comic paper. Call them what you like, but comics have been entertaining people for a long time! But is the popularity of comic books taking a hit? To find out, let's go on a journey into the world of comics.

Comics became really popular during World War II. They gave a bit of light relief for soldiers on the battlefield and kids who didn't have a TV were entertained by their superheroes. Superman was the first hero to burst onto the comic book scene in the late 1930s. From there on, characters like Batman and The Phantom began to muscle in.

Comics used to be all over the magazine racks at almost every corner store, but that's not so much the case today. A lot of comic book fans have to go to specialist stores to buy them. Fans also turn up at comic conventions like this one in the U.S. Just one look and you can see that they're still really popular, but there seems to be more adults here than kids!

REPORTER: One of the reasons kids are turned off comics is because there's so much technology around. They spend more time watching TV or playing computer games and they get to see their superheroes in the movies. And even if they did want a comic, they can read them online.

And this is the way a lot of kids prefer to read them.

JOS VALDMAN, NEWSPAPER CARTOONIST: Maybe the way kids digest them has changed, but you know like the joy of you know reading visual stories, I don't think that will ever cease to be an institution that kids love.

Jos Valdman draws cartoons for a daily newspaper about what's happening in the news. And like comics, the idea is to tell a story using pictures and words.

JOS VALDMAN, NEWSPAPER CARTOONIST: While you're trying to find meaning in a block of text, if you have a block of text with a picture that gives you some context, then that will absolutely help you to understand the meaning of the words in front of you as well.

From here, it's all about adding character and colour to give the picture meaning. So having a creative mind and being a quick-thinker helps when sketching a story.

But what do you think about comics?

GIRL 1: I think in this day and age, the kids are going to see the movie first and then maybe even go back to the old school comic books if they are definitely a fan.

BOY 1: I don't really read them, but not many people do anymore.

GIRL 2: I love comics yeah; I think they're like still really good. They're still really fun to read.

BOY 2: I read comic book myself like Ironman so I find it's alright.

GIRL 3: They do help kids to learn to read, they like looking at the pictures and perhaps there's a story link there, they don't even have to read the words.

Whether or not you're a big fan of comic books, there are a lot of people hoping we won't see the end of them anytime soon!

Presenter: OK, let's see how much you know about comic book super heroes. Time for another quiz.

Quiz 2

The question is:

What is Superman's real name?

Peter Parker

Clark Kent

David Essex

Answer: Clark Kent

So when he's not being a superhero, he's a journalist called Clark Kent. OK, let's see if there were any heroic efforts in the world of sport this week in the Score.

The Score

To swimming first and a Chinese teenager has broken Aussie Grant Hackett's 1500 metre freestyle world record at the World Championships in Shanghai.

Sun Yang shaved point-4-2 of a second off the record that Hackett set ten years ago.

But it wasn't all bad news for the Aussies; Stephanie Rice won bronze in the 400 metre individual medley.

And James Magnussen just missed out on gold in the 4 by 100 medley relay.

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To more records now, this time in AFL, where the Melbourne Demons have had one of the worst thrashings in footy history.

They lost to Geelong by 186 points on Saturday making it the second biggest points loss ever.

The game ended up 233 to 47.

It was such a humiliating loss that Melbourne decided to sack its coach after the game.

Sri Lanka Footy

Reporter: Natasha Thiele

INTRO: We're always hearing that football players are a bit like movie stars these days. Well, it's not as ridiculous as it sounds because a few of them have just made their debut on the big screen. A new doco follows a group of AFL players as they travel to Sri Lanka to sell the Aussie Rules message to a nation that's more used to catching cricket balls. Here's Tash.

NATASHA THIELE, REPORTER: They're talented, popular sports stars. They play a game that's part of Australian culture and many kids look up to them! But these guys have travelled to a country where no-one knows them, not even the game they play.

Six players from AFL clubs the Sydney Swans, Hawthorn and the Adelaide Crows spent 10 days here in Sri Lanka, all for a good cause. Sri Lanka is an island in South Asia, just below India and it's a country that's been through a lot. More than three and a half thousand people died in 2004, when the country was hit by the Asian tsunami. And for more than 25 years, there was a civil war that affected people, the economy and the environment. What happened divided the country and for many young people, life has been tough!

So the players came here to take locals' minds off all the bad things that have happened and to teach them about their sport.

BRETT KIRK, EX SYDNEY SWANS CAPTAIN: We stepped off the bus, we had footies in hand we were met by two guys no shirts on just robes and straight away they had a smile on their faces i reckon within 10 seconds just by having balls in our hands they'd never seen before within one minute we were showing these guys how to handball.

But for this group that's never been to the country before, it was an amazing experience, especially when they visited the tribal Vedda people in the mountains.

ISHIKA KAWIRATNE, TOUR TRANSLATOR: In the middle of the jungle getting asked 'oh can we stop for a coffee' and sort of pulling my hair out going there's nowhere to stop for a coffee.

In Sri Lanka, they had the chance to see all the damage, caused by the tsunami. They also held football clinics with kids. Although there was a problem understanding each other's language, the players showed the kids what to do and they picked up the skills in no time. They also explained to the kids what life is like, as a professional football player in Australia.

The footy players wanted to share their experiences with people back in Australia, so they filmed their whole trip. And it's made it to the big screen. The movie recently premiered in Melbourne. They wanted to show how sport can bring people together even after some really tough times.

BRETT KIRK, EX SYDNEY SWANS CAPTAIN: There's no doubt football brings people to the same level it doesn't matter about money your race your religion your culture where you're from where you've grown up who your parents are once you get out on that ground it's an even playing field and I love what footy does for people.

Another group of AFL players will head to the north of Sri Lanka in October. So while these guys have come home with a great story to tell, they've also left many Sri Lankan kids with a smile on their face!

Presenter: Fantastic.

Closer

That's it for the show. You can jump onto our website if you want to get more info on any of the stories. You can send us your comments and don't forget to vote in this week's poll and I'll see you next time.

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Episode 20

2ND AUGUST 2011

LEARNING AREA

English

Key learning

Students will develop an understanding of the feature of comics and create their own short comic based on a book they have read.

Episode 20

2ND AUGUST 2011

LEARNING AREA

Society and Environment

Key learning

Students will investigate the issues associated with being a celebrity and their right to privacy.

Students will need access to a selection of magazines, newspapers and/or the internet to look at photos of celebrities.

Episode 20

2ND AUGUST 2011

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