Women’s suffrage in Oz – some brief notes
The week we looked at suffrage, we really focused on the white, middle class woman, so by the time I got around to posting my discussion post, everything had been said, so I went in search of something a bit different. **** I thought I’d look into sufferage for EVERYONE a bit more. I didn’t [...]
Jedda
This film was a pain in the butt to get a hold of, ended up having to pay about $40 to get a copy from the National Screen Archives in Canberra. But, I watched it, and here were my thoughts… First of all, after the furore last year about the blackface skit on Hey Hey [...]
Aboriginal first contact lesson plan
My master teacher covered pre-contact Aboriginal culture and society, so in my next lesson, I had to cover contact, both British and pre-British. I also only had half a lesson, because a video had been scheduled to be watched in the second half of the lesson. The film watched was Women of the Sun – [...]
Stolen Generations – Personal Stories
This is a lesson plan that I’m pretty proud of, will probably use it (after tweaking of course) for the upcoming lesson plan submission assessment. I taught this class 1.5 weeks ago now, and in hindsight, I still like the lesson and am happy with how it all went. We had a last minute room [...]
Stolen Generations lesson plan & resources
I must admit, I have made changes to the lesson plan and resources based on what I would do if I had to re-teach the lesson. The PowerPoint presentation attached originally included embedded versions of the clips that are simply represented as links – they were deleted because I’m a bit concerned about copyright, etc, [...]