Recent Changes

Moving forward - Making connections
1. Use a Venn diagram to think about five things in Australian and Indigenous culture that you found to be common or different.
On the scalescale* provided, consider
- strange, but different from what I'm used to, alienating
- - - - different, but not alienating
- - - - - - - - - - - - - I understand and accept it.
- - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - I understand, accept, even enjoy - it is now a part of US.
Scale © Ruth Wajnyrb
Wajnryb, Ruth (1991), 'Chiao's story' in Other Voices: A Cross-Cultural Communication Workbook, p131, Melbourne: Thomas Nelson Australia.
3. Write the steps that you think will be needed to move from Stage 1 - strange but different to Stage 6 - Understanding, accepting and enjoying OUR STORY.
ACTIVITY

FOCUS QUESTIONS:
1. What is the role and significance of the language of reconciliation in relations between Self and Other?
language different formfrom the language
3. What practical steps have been taken to connect the Self to the other?
4. What can we do now to tell our story?

A number of powerful symbols are used in the above texts to reconcile and emphasise a sense of common humanity. Students are to come up with their own symbols that represents reconciliation, sharing or a common humanity. It should be a symbol that challenges the binary oppositions.
Students are to create a poster or CD cover that represents this symbol. They should also write a written justification of this symbol.
Activities to explore Language of Connection and Reconciliation- Reconciliation Australia Website
{RECONCILIATION AUSTRALIA.docx}
ASSESSMENT - Outcomes 2, 4 and 6.
Students design one page of a class A -Z picture book (print or digital) called "Our Story". Students demonstrate their understanding of language that reconciles and reconnects Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. The page should include the students chosen word/ concept, an image that represents this idea and a written text such as a poem, recipe, letter, description, report.

SATIRICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF SELF/ OTHER, COLONIZER / COLONIZED ACROSS THE WORLD:
A BRIEF HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA:
Accessed from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhY9PBceqYY
A BRIEF HISTORY OF CANADA
Accessed from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksYSCWpFKBo&feature=related
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE USA BY MICHAEL MOORE
Accessed from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjSmr7vXUgQ

Paul Keating's Redfern Address
The Sorry Day Speech
Australia website - http://www.reconciliation.org.au
ACTIVITIES
Research Task
- - - - - - - becoming familiar
- - - - - - - - - - familiar, I feel comfortable about it
accept it.
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- - - of US.
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3. Write the OUR STORY.
ACTIVITY
A number of powerful symbols are used in the above texts to reconcile and emphasise a sense of common humanity. Students are to come up with their own symbols that represents reconciliation, sharing or a common humanity. It should be a symbol that challenges the binary oppositions.

2. Extracts from The Binna Binna man and My Girragundji from Meme McDonald's website.
3. Ten Canoes Rolf De Heer and the people of Ramingin
myths' - http://www.shareourpride.org.au/topics/beyond-the-myths (Click on
Personal stories/ conversational style
Why do you think so many Indigenous writers choose to write in a very personal way about topics such as racism? What would be the effect of Oodgeroo choosing instead to write generally about racism?
ABC Radio National's documentary The Writers Train
Tony Birch's The True History of Beruk in Macquarie Pen Anthology of Aboriginal Literature
Conversation - http://www.nexuslearning.net/books/Elements_of_lit_Course6/20th%20Century/Collection%2015/TelephoneConversation.htm
Jack Davis' poem, 'Aboriginal Australia: to the others', Inside Black Australia: An Anthology of Aboriginal Poetry. Ed. Kevin Gilbert.
Any text by Boori Monty Prior and Meme McDonald

7. Extract from the film, We of the Never Never
CONTEMPORARY TEXTS THAT CONTINUE TO REPRESENT THE OTHER AS SAVAGE OR EXOTIC
Wolves (1990) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMOQORiWn80
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2. Michael Mann's Mohicans (1992) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMZtQhhS14w&feature=related
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3. James Cameron's Avatar (2009) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRdxXPV9GNQ
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4. Jamestown Rediscovery website: Pocahontas- http://www.preservationvirginia.org/rediscovery/page.php?page_id=26
ACTIVITIES
Before texts that define the Other are introduced, it is important for students to understand the terms of 'Self' and 'Other'. The following activities can be used to enable this:

RESOURCES:
1. Maps of Australia.
2. [[ttp:hermetic.blog.com/2008/01/23/the-burnum-...claration/ |Burnum Burnum Declaration]]// 1988Burnum Declaration,1988
3. Babakiueria mockumentary.
4. 'First White Men', story, Twelve Canoes.
1. Ask students to return their maps to you or ONE member of the class and the student /yourself can tear the map of Australia that they have labelled in last lesson. The others have colonized their land and renamed their world. The others present a written declaration, the Burnum Burnum Declaration, to legally justify the possession of the land and the people.
RECITATION
learn the [[ttp:hermetic.blog.com/2008/01/23/the-burnum-...claration/ |BurnumBurnum Burnum's Declaration.]] WorkDeclaration.Work together to
What is the Burnam Burnum Declaration? What is he trying to say?
How is the context of colonization inverted in this declaration?