Welcome to Term 3 History
Key inquiry question for this term.
How did colonial settlement change the environment?
As we are looking at Blueback this term in English, our History focus will be how settlement has changed the environment concentrating on marine life. We will be looking at whaling in Albany and pearling in Broome and how both those industries effected the environment, as well as helped develop Western Australia.
How did colonial settlement change the environment?
As we are looking at Blueback this term in English, our History focus will be how settlement has changed the environment concentrating on marine life. We will be looking at whaling in Albany and pearling in Broome and how both those industries effected the environment, as well as helped develop Western Australia.
Case Focus: Whaling in Albany.
Warming up the brain
You will need your Mac book.
Your Humanities book.
Two coloured pencils.
Activity: Create a keynote presentation with the title 'History Term 3.' Include our key inquiry question and your name on the first slide.
On the second slide give it the title of Whaling in Albany.
Create a Venn diagram of Albany then and now in your Humanities book. Take a photo of your Venn Diagram and insert it into the first slide of your keynote presentation.
Your Humanities book.
Two coloured pencils.
Activity: Create a keynote presentation with the title 'History Term 3.' Include our key inquiry question and your name on the first slide.
On the second slide give it the title of Whaling in Albany.
Create a Venn diagram of Albany then and now in your Humanities book. Take a photo of your Venn Diagram and insert it into the first slide of your keynote presentation.
Engaging the brain.
With your shoulder partner create a list of questions that you have about Whaling in Albany on the second slide of your keynote.
You need at least 5.
Activity: Give one - Get one.
You need at least 5.
Activity: Give one - Get one.
Stretching the brain
Choose one question from your list. (It can be a question somebody else has given you.)
Read: A snapshot of Albany’s whaling history page 10.
The book is found in your Google Drive: LA 13/14 View: History Resources folder.
Read: A snapshot of Albany’s whaling history page 10.
The book is found in your Google Drive: LA 13/14 View: History Resources folder.
Whale Products.
Research activity: What products used to be made from whales?
: Are any of these products still in use today?
: Are there any countries still involved with whaling? List them.
: If there are still whaling countries what do they make from the whales. Do we receive any of these products in Australia?
: Are any of these products still in use today?
: Are there any countries still involved with whaling? List them.
: If there are still whaling countries what do they make from the whales. Do we receive any of these products in Australia?
Procedure Text
Choose a product that is made from a whale.
Research how it was made by Australian Whalers. You will need to take notes.
Write a procedural text explaining how it would have been made.
Research how it was made by Australian Whalers. You will need to take notes.
Write a procedural text explaining how it would have been made.
Pearling in Western Australia.
Watch the video above. Take notes in your keynote presentation. You need at LEAST 15 facts from the video.
Historical narrative
In a historical narrative, you tell about a historical event, blending facts with imagined characters and situations. When you write a historical narrative, you combine fiction with nonfiction. Like nonfiction, a historical narrative describes people who actually lived and events that actually happened. However, a historical narrative also includes fictional people and details imagined by the writer.
A historical narrative should have the following characteristics:
• Accurate historic events and details of actual places.
• One person’s point of view.
• Some characters and circumstances invented by the writer.
• Chronological organisation.
Narrative Structure.
A historical narrative should have the following characteristics:
• Accurate historic events and details of actual places.
• One person’s point of view.
• Some characters and circumstances invented by the writer.
• Chronological organisation.
Narrative Structure.
Introduction.
In the first paragraphs of your narrative, introduce your main character and his or her world to your readers.
As you write, think about the following questions:
• How did this person find themselves in this particular time and place?
• How does your character feel about the historical event?
• Why is this story being told?
• Is your storyteller relating this narrative to a friend? Talking to a group of strangers?
Middle.
In the body of your story you need to make sure you are staying in chronological order. Don't introduce facts or details that are from a different time. It is important to check your facts.
Think of a problem that is related to the pearling industry that you might be able to explore.
The button below will give you some ideas for obstacles that your character can over come.
Conclusion.
In your conclusion your need to end your action.
You might like to do this by showing how a pearler lives now or telling the reader what the pearling industry now has in place to stop the problem happening again. You could end it in by explaining how your character solved or dealt with their problem emotionally.
In the first paragraphs of your narrative, introduce your main character and his or her world to your readers.
As you write, think about the following questions:
• How did this person find themselves in this particular time and place?
• How does your character feel about the historical event?
• Why is this story being told?
• Is your storyteller relating this narrative to a friend? Talking to a group of strangers?
Middle.
In the body of your story you need to make sure you are staying in chronological order. Don't introduce facts or details that are from a different time. It is important to check your facts.
Think of a problem that is related to the pearling industry that you might be able to explore.
The button below will give you some ideas for obstacles that your character can over come.
Conclusion.
In your conclusion your need to end your action.
You might like to do this by showing how a pearler lives now or telling the reader what the pearling industry now has in place to stop the problem happening again. You could end it in by explaining how your character solved or dealt with their problem emotionally.
The Japanese Cemetery
The Japanese Cemetery at Broome (which is the largest Japanese cemetery in Australia) dates back to the very early pearling days and bears witness to the close ties Japan established with Broome in the early twentieth century. The first recorded interment in this cemetery is 1896. Literally hundreds of young Japanese divers died either from the bends (divers paralysis) or from drowning. A large stone obelisk in the cemetery recalls those who were drowned at sea in the 1908 cyclone. The cyclones of 1887 and 1935 each caused the deaths of at least 140 men. To give some idea of the scale of deaths resulting from the bends it is worth noting that the cemetery has the graves of 33 men who died of divers paralysis in 1914. There are 707 graves (919 people) with most of them having unusual headstones of coloured beach rocks. The cemetery which has been immaculately restored is on Port Drive on the way out to Cable Beach. |
Focus Questions
1) When was the Perth established?
2) What was the population in 1954 (When the video was made)?
3) What is Perth's population now?
3) What resources are industry using?
4) What resources are most used now in Perth?
5) Why does the narrator say that it is 'good country' ?
6) What do they use the land for?
7) What farming equipment did you see?
8) Who was the state governor of 1954?
9) Who is the state governor now?
10) What kind of transport was available? What looked different from todays public transport?
11) If you were making a post card of Perth now, what would you like people to see and know about?
1) When was the Perth established?
2) What was the population in 1954 (When the video was made)?
3) What is Perth's population now?
3) What resources are industry using?
4) What resources are most used now in Perth?
5) Why does the narrator say that it is 'good country' ?
6) What do they use the land for?
7) What farming equipment did you see?
8) Who was the state governor of 1954?
9) Who is the state governor now?
10) What kind of transport was available? What looked different from todays public transport?
11) If you were making a post card of Perth now, what would you like people to see and know about?