Talk about Rights is a year 6 unit with 12 lessons. It involves historical inquiry, an examination of famous speeches and the film Rabbit Proof Fence. This is large resource with multiple lessons.
Structure and features
Learning tasks
Each lesson in Talk about Rights has activities and learning tasks that are unique to that lesson. The lesson order is:
- Framing an historical inquiry of the text's contexts
- Whose history?
- Land rights: Great speeches – part 1
- Petitioning people in power
- From little things big things grow
- The Stolen Generations: Great speeches – part 2
- Why say sorry?
- Building background and cultural knowledge
- What was there to lose?
- Taken away
- The escape
- Sharing what we know
Who can use these?
- Teachers can modify activities for use at home.
- Families can use the materials to guide students at home.
Links and files
Teacher notes
Teacher notes
This resource is from the English for the Australian Curriculum website for teachers. The site collects model English units integrated with other curriculum areas and links to resources.
Focus areas
- reading and viewing
- interactive speaking
- responding to texts
- creating texts
Assessment opportunities
Students can complete reflection journals or short text responses or interact through Zoom or other video conferencing platform.
Curriculum links
Cross curricula units link with HASS or Science
