Objectives

Beginning

Middle

Community
calendar. Using
calendar
creation
software from
the site each
student
contributes

Special days

Activity 2

significant

special day part

events, i.e.,

A. Students are

birthday,

introduced to 5

religious

young

celebrations

Australians

using think,

who talk about

pair, share

events

strategy.

significant to

Teacher inputs

them.

data as
facilitator.
Teacher makes
a point of
adding Sorry
Day as the
focus for the
independent
inquiry.

End
Nanna Fejo

Checks

Resources

story, from
transcript of
Sorry Speech
is handed out
to the class.
Selected
students read

Teacher is

portions of the

looking for

text in turn

certain

Special Days part

(teacher helps).

questions:

A:Differencedifferently.edu.au/our_communities/p

What is Sorry

art_2a.php

Small groups:

Day?

Community Calendar:

Sorry Day as a

How did it

Differencedifferently.edu.au/our_communities/part

significant

begin?

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event. Teacher

Who is it for?

Excerpt from Sorry Speech transcript (Nanna

steps back and

Why do people

Fejos story) [secondary resource as it is

gives the

celebrate it?

recounted by Prime Minister Rudd].

students

When does it

A3 paper and pens.

responsibility to

happen?

pose questions

When did it

about Sorry

begin?

Day to begin
inquiry. A3
paper/group,
students divide
into: what, how,
when, where,

A curiosity in

The 1888

Indigenous

why, who.
Teacher has

her own

cartoon is

Australians as

Venn diagram

change.

as it is one person recording their perspective of

country.

displayed on

refugees in

on the IWB.

Teacher is

what was for them a current event).

the IWB.

their own

Titles, before

looking for

http://www.myplace.edu.au/TLF_resources/R9341

Students are

country.

Apology, after

base line

/description.html

invited to think

Students are

Apology, what

knowledge of

Members of the Stolen Generation listen to the

about the

split into groups

remains the

the issues to

apology: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2008-02-

Continuity and

A curiosity in her own country. (primary resource

meaning of the
image. Teacher
annotates while
students
analyise, but
may ask openended
questions to
stimulate
discussion. The
second image
of people from
the Stolen
Generation is

and will discuss

one of two
questions:
What was life

13/members-of-the-stolen-generations-

like for
Indigenous
Australians

same.

before the

inform

listen/1041644 (Image of people at an historical

pedagogy for

event, therefore this is a primary source. The

expanding the

accompanying news report is a secondary

inquiry.

source).

Apology, or

Venn Diagram.

after and what

might not have
changed.

also examined.
Teacher is
looking for the
Students use

students ability

computer time

Teacher will

to draw

to investigate

assist students

information

the Indigenous

to navigate to

from a

flags.

the prescribed

multimodal text.

Significant

They will

website and

Students

Website: http://www.naidoc.org.au/indigenous-

symbols: The

choose one to

give further

should be able

australian-flags (primary source as it records the

Indigenous

focus on. They

instruction as

to use the

values and beliefs of a living culture).

flags.

will give short

required.

prescribed site

Worksheet: Flags of Indigenous Australia.

answers to the

Students will be

to write brief

questions, who

permitted to

sentences

created it, why,

collaborate as

about the

what do the

appropriate.

subject and

colours mean?

copy the flag in

the correct

Beginning the

Teacher

Using what the

Students

colours.
Teacher is

assessment:

explains the

students have

record the vital

looking for

Create an

criteria for the

discovered so

questions in

relevant

advertisement

summative

far, the teacher

their daybooks

questions to

assessment.
Students will

drive the

create an
advertisement
for Sorry Day
using their
choice of
media, e.g.,

promoting

concrete

Sorry Day as

materials, ms

a National

word, ms paint,

holiday.

digital images,
prints, video.
They must
make a
convincing
argument as to
why Sorry Day
is important to
all Australians.
Subsequent
lessons will be
devoted to
assisting the

Researching
the questions.

students to
conduct their
inquiries and
design their
advertisements
based on their
findings.

inquiry. At this
facilitates a

age it will be

brain storming

necessary to

session, where

ask open-

the students
decide what
information
should go in
the
advertisement.
Teacher

and will decide

before the next
session, what
medium they
will use to
proceed.

ended
questions to
keep the input
flowing,
however the
main idea is
that the major

records

contribution

responses on

should come

IWB flipchart.

from the
students
themselves.