M. Shafer's Destination Australi Migration To Australia

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History Education Assignment 1: History Learning Sequence – Lesson Plan 2000 words Why I chose particular resources. To try journal writing I felt the students required a broad, varied, factual and colourful knowledge of the people and the era. They needed sufficient information to draw from in order to write creatively based on historical facts. Text book secondary sources such as M. Shafer’s This Land: Issues in Australian History and Citizenship since 1901, E. Richards’s Destination Australia: migration to Australia since 1901 and A. Astbury’s Nation, Race and Citizen 1888-1914, would support fact collecting through timelines, worksheets and discussions. Photographs and personal stories provide primary sources and would support…show more content…
Note Maps, Paintings, Photographs, Newspaper articles, items. Worksheet Yr 9 History to be handed out. Excerpt from Pioneering Pommies of 1910, p38. To be read by student. Introduction 7 minutes Students, we have covered Australian free settler experience through the radio show excerpts of Annie Brough. Through reading Henry Lawson’s’ The Drovers Wife, what else have we covered? (Take dot points on board) We have looked at photographs and paintings from the turn of the Nineteenth century before WW1. We have considered how life was different . . . what would you say are some of the defining reasons they came? (Take dot points on board) What were some of the defining features of the settlers lives out on the land? Differences to farming today? What do you know about journal writing? (Take dot points on board) Define. Number students 1-4 and make into groups of four. A student to read a final excerpt from Pioneering Pommies of…show more content…
Stimulate thinking. Referral to timeline History Wall in the class made by the students. Ask questions to inform journal writing. | Teacher Introduction to lesson activity.Student Handouts given.Student to read last instalment of Pioneering Pommies of 1910. P38.Ask students to come and ask questions if needed. Tell I will be here listening. | 5 minutes3 minutes | Group work supporting student self-sufficiency. Slef as first resource and problem solver. Communication skills. Appreciation of different contributions of each to a group. Engaging active method of stimulating memory and ideas for journal writing. | Arrange students in groups of 4: Time Keeper, Scribe, Chair Person and Coach. All idea generators. | | Synthesise information and gain empathy through considering the settlers from a personal perspective.Communication sharing in groups.What will inform my journal writing ?Who am I ?What affected their day to day life ?Weather ? Community ? Food ? Housing ? National events ? | Students to discuss : What will inform their journal writing, what character they will be. Social, environmental, work and technological factors that will make up their reflective journals. | 10 minutes

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