Week 12: Presentations

This week was interesting, it set the bar for us. Ruth went first and did her presentation on Caroline Chisholm, it looked at the history of the old five dollar note and it interested her to teach SOSE to primary school students. She looked into the role that Caroline Chisholm played in history and we made tableaus, walked in character, spoke thouhgts out loud. Her lessons looked observing the character and thinking about her feelings and character profile. Ruth also looked at gossip and re-enactment.

Kathryn looked at the Stolen generation. White Australia and Aboriginal Australia. She looked into a stimulis, so bringing a bag full of stuff into the class for students to guess where they came from and what they were for. In the bag there were 2 poems, a rusted blade, some photos, black charcoal and a metal dog tag. The teacher would then come out in role telling students ‘Oh, you found my bag’ and explains what each item in the bag means to her. Then there were some task cards and in groups of four we were to re-enact certain scenes of children being taken from their homes, seperated from their siblings and stolen. We looked at Aboriginal diaries from back then and now, and the next task was that she would get students to finish some of the unfinished diary’s. Kathryn said she may even have brought in the movie ‘Rabbit Proof Fence’ later on in the unit.

In class we looked at expectations for the assignment and what we needed to include in the rationale. Very stressful times…there are so many people needing to present next week!!!