ORAL HISTORY PERSPECTIVES

USING THE MY PLACE WEBSITEBY LISA LOGAN

Lesson: Icon Narration Activity using the My Place ABC website

Open the My Place ABC Website at http://www.abc.net.au/abc3/myplace/

Look at the Episode 26 – Barangaroo Film Clips

The Clip – Episode 26

Questions???

View the clip and discuss the relationship between Aunty and the children. She warns the children to stay away from Mumuga?

Discuss why Aunty would have warned the children of this 'spirit‘?

Ask students to list the skills and knowledges that the children are learning within the clip they viewed and the type of oral exchange that takes place between Aunty and the children?

Thinking About Oral History

Indigenous Australians have passed on information from one generation to another over many thousands of years, predominantly through the spoken word. These oral traditions exist in many different forms. The main forms include, but are not limited to:

Group stories or collective histories that are usually about early contact periods with colonists

Cultural practices that are passed down through generations Life histories of individuals told as biographical stories Spiritual narratives that are based on teachings about law including

relationships with family, with land and seas, and gathering food. Some groups separate these narratives into creation stories and dreaming stories.

Brainstorming How the students might approach the oral

history/icon activity as a brainstorming activity?

The Activity The Icon Narrative – Oral History Construct a narrative/story of a memory of your family,

culture or beliefs and how the memory have affected you... Has anyone ever told you a oral tradition? ( a family

member who has taught you something?) You will be presenting your story as a 5 min presentation

and 5 mins of question time (answering your peers questions).

Get Ready To Write Make sure you establish the environment

or scenario of your personal story. Organise the structure of the story so that

it unfolds naturally within your use of dialogue, description of actions, thoughts and feelings of characters to develop

experiences and events. End it – provide a sense of

closure at the end. We are after a short snapshot

of identity oral history/icon

narration presentation here not

a long life story account.

Afterwards Neaten your copy of your story/text for next

lessons presentation (it wont help if you cannot read it).

You can bring an appropriate prop to use for the talk.

We shall be presenting our talks next lesson so practice, practice, practice to get rid of any nerves...

We shall compile our stories next lesson within a digital portfolio that each of you can have a copy of to take home...