Famous Figures of Federation and the DVD (keywords)

Students will be viewing the following DVD in three parts and using keywords to take notes. Keywords have been a major focus across the grade 5/6 units this year to aid students in note taking and to avoid plagarism.

All the posters and brochures about the pluses, minuses and interesting facts about "federation " are in and being assessed. Well done!  Next activity in the learning sequence  is to create your own ICT product, PhotoStory, Power Point or animation about one of the historical figures listed below or you may negotiate one of your own as longs as you can show their links to the process of federation. On Thursday students will be shown how to make a PhotoStory. Students will also make a placemat plan looking at their chosen person in terms of the Keys to Success: persistence, resilience, getting along, confidence and organisation and will construct a timeline. The placemat is due in Monday the 30th June. Then the ICT aspect will become the major focus.

Frank Anstey	Charles Cameron Kingston
Anstey, Francis George (Frank) (1865-1940) -- biography and image. From Australian Dictionary of Biography Online Edition	Charles Cameron Kingston - biography from Flinders Ranges ResearchCharles Cameron Kingston (1850-1908) - role in Federation. From Parliament of Australia
Edmund Barton	Henry Lawson
Edmund Barton - short biography. From Australianhistory.orgThe fathers of Federation - includes Sir Edmund Barton and Sir Henry Parkes. From Skwirk Sir Edmund Barton (1849-1920) - biographical notes and image. From State Library NSW	Henry Lawson: Australian writer - Henry Lawson's life and background. From Australian GovernmentHenry Lawson (1867-1922) - simple overview of Lawson's life. From Australian Broadcasting Corporation Henry Lawson - biography and includes poem 'Sez you' and copies of his birth and death certificates. From NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
Andrew Inglis Clark	Louisa Lawson
Andrew Inglis Clark - biography from University of TasmaniaClark, Andrew Inglis (1848-1907) - biography and image. From Australian Dictionary of Biography Online Edition	Louisa (Albury) Lawson - Australian poet, journalist and publisher - instrumental in helping Australian women to get the vote. From AlldownunderLouisa Lawson - background information and influence on women's rights. From Australian Workers Heritage Centre Louisa Lawson - short biography from Education Services Australia
Edith Cowan	Sir William McMillan
Edith Cowan (1861-1932) - simple overview of Lawson's life. From Australian Broadcasting CorporationEdith Cowan - background information from Australia on Net Edith Cowan - short biography from Education Services Australia	Sir William McMillan (1850-1926) - biographical notes and image. From State Library NSWMcMillan, Sir William (1850-1926) - biography and image. From Australian Dictionary of Biography Online Edition
Annette Bear-Crawford	Edward William O'Sullivan
Bear-Crawford, Annette Ellen - biography and image. From Australian Dictionary of Biography Online Edition	Edward William O'Sullivan - biographical notes and image. From State Library NSWO'Sullivan, Edward William (1846-1910) - biography and image. From Australian Dictionary of Biography Online Edition
Alfred Deakin	Sir Henry Parkes
Alfred Deakin - comprehensive biography from National Museum of AustraliaAlfred Deakin - biography from National Archives of Auatralia Alfred Deakin - biography from Deakin University Alfred Deakin and Federation - role in Federation. From Deakin University	Sir Henry Parkes - brief biography. From Beenleigh State SchoolSir Henry Parkes - short biography from Education Services Australia
Vida Goldstein	Banjo Patterson
The art of Suff-Rage - celebrating Vida Goldstein - outlines Vida Goldstein's struggle for equal rights for women. From FernArtzSt Kilda biographies - information on the suffragette Vida Goldstein, From Friends of St Kilda Cemetry Forging the nation - Vida Goldstein - summary of her work as a peace activist. From Australian War Memorial Viva Goldstein - short biography from Education Services Australia	Banjo Patterson - a biography - biography and link to recordings of his poems. From Wallis and MatildaBanjo Patterson - simple overview of Lawson's life. From Australian Broadcasting Corporation 'Banjo' Patterson - short biography from Education Services Australia A. B. 'Banjo' Patterson - biography from Alldownunder
Sir Samuel Walker Griffith	Sir John Quick
Sir Samuel Griffith - short biography. From Griffith UniversityGriffith, Sir Samuel Walker (1845-1920) - biography and image. From Australian Dictionary of Biography Online Edition Sir Samuel Walker Griffith - brief biography. from Supreme Court of Queensland Library	Who was Sir John Quick? - background and influence on Australian Federation. From La Trobe UniversitySir John Quick - Member of the First Parliament. From Parliament of Australia Quick, Sir John (1852-1932) - biography and image. From Australian Dictionary of Biography Online Edition
Henry Bournes Higgins	Rose Scott
Henry Bournes Higgins - role in Federation. From Parliament of AustraliaHenry Higgins - short biography from University of Melbourne Henry Bournes Higgins - biography from Australian Industrial Relations Commission	Scott, Rose (1847-1925) - social reformer. Information from Australian Women's Archive ProjectRose Scott (1847-1925) - Australian feminist papers. From State Library of NSW
Livingston Hopkins	Catherine Helen Spence
Livingston Hopkins - political cartoonist. Short biography from Lambiek.netHopkins, Livingston York Yourtee (1846-1927) - biography and image. From Australian Dictionary of Biography Online Edition	Catherine Helen Spence - biography from Flinders Ranges ResearchCatherine Helen Spence - background on life and work. From Thiele Primary School Catherine Helen Spence - information about Catherine helen Spence and her writing career. From State Library SA
Acknowledgement :Catherine MacAuly Library, St Aloysius College http://www.sac.sa.edu.au/Library/Library/Primary/sose/federation.html

Australia's Federation - Behind the News Clip

We watched this today and  are going to use this as the inspiration to write our own class play about Federation for presentation in a school assembly. A big thank you to K for sourcing the transcript and printing off; a great starting point.

First Assignment for Federation: a PMI - Due next Thursday 12th of June

A PMI is a pluses, minuses and interesting investigation. Last week students were each  given a booklet on Federation, and we have discussed how to pick out the keywords. They really need to read the information thoroughly (more than once) and look up any words they are unfamiliar with. Many of the students have had a turn reading to me so I can gauge their understanding of the two texts, but any support at home would be greatly appreciated, as there are 27 students in the class. The information should be housed in their Useful Folder.  The Federation unit is a tough requirement of the history curriculum and will require persistence and organisation. Students will be receiving a significant amount of help scaffolding the assignment. They have been asked to produce a PMI poster which will be a mixture of written text and visual text to show their understanding of the topic. This is the first task. Today students also received a second source of information, two pages on Federation from a book levelled at upper primary students. Tomorrow I will be showing some film clips, sharing some music and also a Big Book which simplifies the topic somewhat more. To date three-four hours has been given in class on this topic. Tuesday the students will have a mini computers for an hour each to find a third and/or fourth source to help them with this assignment. . Tonight they were asked to finish reading the information given and to make a plan in their Writer's Notebooks.

Yesterday, May 3rd I and some brave volunteers read the big book Australians All to the class. It is the easiest to understand resource I have so far discovered about Federation. I photocopied the most relevant pages to Federation in colour and then laminated them. Four randomly chosen students put these up as a display in the quiet room as a resource.