Migration
Learning Goal: I can use an analogy to understand the experience of migrants to colonial Australia.
APK: Turn and talk with a partner; discussing the game you played for homework.
New Information:
What is an ANALOGY?
Using a comparison of something familiar to help you understand aspects of something unfamiliar (brainstorm some examples like riding a bike).
Look at thinking skills document that is in your books and go through the steps of an analogy.
Step 1: define the migrant experience.
Step 2: pick a topic to use that is familiar to most of us and has many important similarities (eg: moving house, moving school).
Application: Read through these primary and secondary resources and take notes looking especially for ways that the experience was like moving home or school..
Chinese
http://splash.abc.net.au/home#!/media/1957515/chinese-migration
https://museumvictoria.com.au/education/whats-your-story/gung-family/
Irish
http://www.egold.net.au/biogs/EG00091b.htm
British
Step 3: Identify the different ways that the migrant experience is like moving home/school- make these headings on your table.
Use the table to describe the ways in which the migrant experience was like moving house or school
Goal reflection:
Step 4: For people migrating to Australia it would have been like… use the information from their table to write a paragraph in their books.