Revision Sheet
09 Thursday Jun 2016
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09 Thursday Jun 2016
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08 Wednesday Jun 2016
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40 word summaries of:
Woodward Royal Commission set up by Whitlam to see how land rights could be set up. Ideals were for providing opportunity, keeping spiritual connection and justice for Aboriginal people who had lost land. Recommendations were to provide compensation, and ways of continuing and strengthening Aboriginal connection with tribal lands. Bill was amended after Dismissal and watered down to suit mining and pastoral businesses.
07 Tuesday Jun 2016
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OK, so I put it on IMMI trying to be good, but I keep forgetting I put it there so I will put it here too… 🙂
Task Sheet Romeo and Juliet Essay
Students will answer the question in critical essay form : “How does Baz Luhrmann’s cinematic interpretation change or reinforce the key ideas and themes of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet ? Reference must be made to specific scenes/episodes in the narrative. (1000 words)
Due Friday 17 June – email it to me by 4:00pm please 🙂
30 Monday May 2016
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24 Tuesday May 2016
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When you are done reading the play, open Verona Crime File and over the next few lessons, complete the task:
TASK :
23 Monday May 2016
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Social Justice Interview Task S1 2016
Due 4.00pm Friday 10 June 2016
23 Monday May 2016
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18 Wednesday May 2016
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Marketing task – Shark Tank 2016
Presentations on Wednesday 1 June (Week 5)
18 Wednesday May 2016
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Intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa8MBL2FpV4
Using pp 153-157, write an overview of the 1967 Referendum to give the Federal Government the authority to act for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
You should write three paragraphs:
You should include some examples of people involved.
17 Tuesday May 2016
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There are a variety of online games which aim to promote an understanding about social justice. In groups of 2-3, you will be allocated one game.
1st half hour
Play it for about 20 min and prepare a short review of it (ppt and email to BT):
2nd half hour
3rd half hour
The Games / Simulations
http://www.gamesforchange.org/play/spent/
Live the life of someone without much money – how to spend limited money, too poor for doctor etc. Location: USA
Poverty in wealthy country: pretty good representation of issues
http://www.gamesforchange.org/play/sweatshop/
‘Sick game’ where you hire adults or kids (cheaper) to work in a sweatshop, to make products for minimum cost. Fail and the boss swears at you and fires you.
Child Labour / Sweatshop: pretty good – people get injured, crying children, poor working conditions
http://www.gamesforchange.org/play/wildfire/
Didn’t work
http://www.gamesforchange.org/play/3rd-world-farmer/
You are a farming family in 3rd world family: drought, illness, poor years, militia. Start with little money, control farming decisions, gives you an ‘annual report yearly’ – health of family – give them medicine. Deaths at young ages (40 or so for parents, kids at 10)
3rd world countries – pretty good
http://www.gamesforchange.org/play/free-rice/
Play vocab game – definitions / synonyms – you get 10 grains of rice for every correct answer. World Food Programme (UN Agency) – so real people benefit from you playing games. Other languages are there too.
http://www.gamesforchange.org/play/darfur-is-dying/
You are a kid who goes to collect water (about 4km each way) while avoiding militia / soldiers.
Shows poverty, conflict, access to drinking water
http://www.gamesforchange.org/play/ayiti-the-cost-of-life/
Role play as a family below the poverty line in Haiti – how to survive by working, paying bills etc. Pick a life path and follow it through.
Showed how hard it is to earn money and keep family healthy. Badly affected by things we wouldn’t expect etc.
‘The parable of the polygons’: segregation in society
Or the menu is here – choose one from the categories of:
Poverty
Human Rights