History Lesson #3

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.goldrushcolony.com.au/australian-gold-history-culture-info/immigrant-influences-australian-gold-fields/irish-gold-fields

http://www.egold.net.au/biogs/EG00091b.htm

British

http://www.skwirk.com/p-c_s-56_u-426_t-1075_c-4146/SA/9/Migration-to-Australia-1832-1850/Mass-migration/Becoming-Australian/SOSE-History/

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.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *