education, History, Aboriginal Teaching resource using oral history activity and the ABC my place website

1. Lesson: Icon Narration Activity using
the My Place ABC website

2. Open the My Place ABC Website
at http://www.abc.net.au/abc3/myplace/
 Look at the Episode 26 – Barangaroo Film Clips

3. The Clip – Episode 26

4. 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?

7. 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.

8. 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).

9. 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.

10. 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...