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‘The greatest Australian you [Year 9] have never heard of’

11 Tuesday May 2021

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Australian History

Posted on 5 February 2014 on a previous site

I had a great lesson today as part of our unit on Australian identity. After looking at Aussie stereotypes I wanted them to go home and find 3-5 amazing Australians they had never heard of. I was impressed with the range of people they came up with and the depth of detail they had written down, so I found a fillable knockout tournament sheet and we proceeded to judge who we thought was the greatest Australian from our list.

Initially in groups of four, two presented their great Australian while the other two decided who they thought was the greater. Any ties was initially sorted by ‘surrender’ (your person deserves to win) or else decided by the classroom’s Final Arbiter (who did not need to be consulted).

The winners of each group found their next opponent and took with them their vanquished first round opponent. This continued through to the semi-final stage, when the last four presented in front of the whole class.

The final was between William Lawrence Bragg (x-ray analysis of crystals, DNA) and Fred Hollows (eye care/surgery, especially in indigenous communities). Representing Bragg was a tall, eloquent, Australian member of the school debating team versus a shy and quiet Indonesian girl who was so excited that ‘she’ won. This was an unexpected bonus out of the activity!

Below are the top 16 (there were a few preliminary knockouts to get it down to sixteen).

‘The Greatest Australian You’ve Never Heard Of’ – Year 9 History

(How typical is Hollows as a ‘great Aussie’? He was actually born in NZ…)

Post-CT learning

01 Tuesday Dec 2015

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As I have said to both classes, you go to school to learn. Just because the Common Tests are done does not mean your learning for the year has stopped (you should learn things between end of school and 31 December, too!)

Generally, education systems are set up where the Government tells me what to teach you, and I tell you what you have to learn … you rarely have a say in it. Well, now is your chance!

For the rest of the year, learn about something you want to learn about that is related to Humanities (History, Geography, Politics, Law, Business, Economics).

For the Dewhirst class, here is your chance to better your webdesign skills – please present it on your WordPress site that you set up at the start of the term.

For the Pope class, either take notes and comments in your Google Drive folder, or you may learn how to present differently – perhaps create a website (maybe using a different site – Wix, WordPress, Weebly, Wikispaces, Google Sites all have free options)

I look forward to seeing what you find through the process.

Your ‘mark’ at the end of this is self-satisfaction and new knowledge.

National Sovereignty vs Global Interconnection

19 Thursday Nov 2015

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We’ve spent the last few weeks looking at aspects of global interconnection, but what about the ability to do what we like in our own country?

The right of a country to determine its own laws is called national sovereignty.

What are the limits on national sovereignty?
Should there be any limits?

What is the dichotomy between global interconnection and national sovereignty?

Common Test Revision Sheet

10 Tuesday Nov 2015

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Hot off the presses from Mr Anderson: Year 9 Humanities Common Test – Help Sheet

Common Test is on 27 November (week 7)

Topics covered:

Part 1 – History (Making a Nation, World War I, Industrial Revolution)
Part 2 – Civics and Citizenship (“For we are young and free”)
Part 3 – Geographies of Interconnection

Term 4 Assessment Task

02 Monday Nov 2015

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Start today on assessment task please

T4 Assessment Task

DUE:

Dewhirst: Monday Week 6, start of lesson

Pope: Tuesday Week 6, start of lesson

Rough scratch up of an annotated map…
Interconnection Map Outline

Resources

For lots of statistics about Australia, try the Australian Bureau of Statistics (www.abs.gov.au)

An example of an annotated map of the globalised nature of one product by the BBC. (You may not use this example!)

Trade: historical and recent

26 Monday Oct 2015

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Five Great Trade Routes

http://frontiermarketstrategy.com/2013/02/24/five-key-trade-routes-from-history/

Small groups:
Take one each of

  1. The Silk Road
  2. British-Indian Spice Route
  3. Trans-Saharan Trade
  4. Saudi-US Oil
  5. Incense Route

Use at least one different source per group member (in addition to the introductory site above) to explain this trade route. You should tell us when this route existed, what caused it to start and finish, how did it impact on the countries involved and show us the route on a map.

‘Place’ (9Pope Tues & Wed)

20 Tuesday Oct 2015

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As a geographical concept, Place is fundamental to how we think about ourselves and our world.

Place

Quick Questions (answer in a new DOC in your shared Google Drive: call it Place – Quick Questions)
Name 10 places (can be country, city, suburb, building, park etc)
What word/s do you immediately think of when you hear this place (eg Adelaide Oval – cricket; Glenelg – beach; Antarctica – penguins, Grandma’s house – cheesecake etc.) Label each as ‘positive’, ‘negative’ or ‘neutral’ depending on how you think about it (Grandma’s cheesecake = positive!)

List as much as you can think of for each of these places:
New York, London, Tokyo, Germany, Russia, Sudan, China, Indonesia, Melbourne
What is similar for all/many of these?
How is it different to what you know about Adelaide?
What sorts of factors determine someone’s feeling about a place? Could different people feel completely different about the same place? How/why? Give an example.

Do these feelings about place determine how we interact with them?

Would you love to travel to any of those places above? Would you not travel to any? Why/ not?

If you have time, start this – otherwise we will do it tomorrow

Activity – do this as a New Doc in your shared Google Drive (call it “Place – Around the world trip”). 

You have won an around the world trip to 20 destinations anywhere in the world for you and 3 others. (You should take parent/s and sibling/s as first priority – if you are an only child, then you can take a friend (an actual friend – name them).) Each person should have at least 5 destinations that they are excited to go to (eg Dad is NOT excited about shopping anywhere) – there can be multiple people

For each destination, you need to:

  1. Name the place
  2. Provide photo/s and
  3. a short explanation of why you chose it (should include who is excited to go there and why)

Create a map (eg Google mymaps, or other is ok) and tag each place. Insert the map to your page.

‘Place’ (9Dewhirst: Mon M4-5)

19 Monday Oct 2015

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As a geographical concept, Place is fundamental to how we think about ourselves and our world.

Place

Quick Questions (answer in your wordpress blog)
Name 10 places (can be country, city, suburb, building, park etc)
What word/s do you immediately think of when you hear this place (eg Adelaide Oval – cricket; Glenelg – beach; Antarctica – penguins, Grandma’s house – cheesecake etc.) Label each as ‘positive’, ‘negative’ or ‘neutral’ depending on how you think about it (Grandma’s cheesecake = positive!)

List as much as you can think of for each of these places:
New York, London, Tokyo, Germany, Russia, Sudan, China, Indonesia, Melbourne
What is similar for all/many of these?
How is it different to what you know about Adelaide?
What sorts of factors determine someone’s feeling about a place? Could different people feel completely different about the same place? How/why? Give an example.

Do these feelings about place determine how we interact with them?

Would you love to travel to any of those places above? Would you not travel to any? Why/ not?

Activity – do this as a New Page in your WordPress site. Provide a link in your blog post of today.

You have won an around the world trip to 20 destinations anywhere in the world for you and 3 others. (You should take parent/s and sibling/s as first priority – if you are an only child, then you can take a friend (an actual friend – name them).) Each person should have at least 5 destinations that they are excited to go to (eg Dad is NOT excited about shopping anywhere) – there can be multiple people

For each destination, you need to:

  1. Name the place
  2. Provide photo/s and
  3. a short explanation of why you chose it (should include who is excited to go there and why)

Create a map (eg Google mymaps, or other is ok) and tag each place. Insert the map to your page.

Geographies of Interconnection

16 Friday Oct 2015

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Factual
How do people perceive places?
How do people connect to different people and places?
How does trade connect people and places?

Conceptual
Who wins and loses in a globalised world?
How important is the formation of networks in a globalised world?

Debatable
Can the action of one person change the world?
Are people are more concerned with about cheap consumer goods than labour exploitation?

Art as Protest assessment

15 Thursday Oct 2015

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Submission for both classes is tomorrow (Friday 16 October)
DEWHIRST: by recess
POPE: at start of class

A reminder that ideally all tasks 1-6 are on your ‘Art as Protest’ powerpoint which we began the unit with. This includes your response to #6 where possible.

Some people have created physical artworks – please indicate in your powerpoint at the end of your 300 words (eg “See painting / poster / sculpture etc”)

Reference to research and authoritative sources is good!

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