I think, I see, I wonder
Year 6: Compare texts including media texts that represent ideas and events in different ways, explaining the effects of the different approaches
POINT OF VIEW
What is your point of view about Harold Martin? What evidence do you have to support your point of view?
Preparing the Brain:
WWLT: How to express your point of view using evidence.
WILF: I am responsible.
Engaging the Brain:
What is your point of view about Harold Martin? What evidence do you have to support your point of view?
Preparing the Brain:
WWLT: How to express your point of view using evidence.
WILF: I am responsible.
Engaging the Brain:
Character Attributes
Honorable- of high rank, dignity, or distinction; noble, illustrious, or distinguished.
Responsible- involving accountability or responsibility, as in having the power to control or manage:
Admirable worthy of admiration; inspiring approval, reverence, or affection. excellent; first-rate.
Courageous- possessing or characterized by courage; brave: a courageous speech against the dictator.
Amiable having or showing pleasant, good-natured personal qualities; affable: an amiable disposition.
Honorable- of high rank, dignity, or distinction; noble, illustrious, or distinguished.
Responsible- involving accountability or responsibility, as in having the power to control or manage:
Admirable worthy of admiration; inspiring approval, reverence, or affection. excellent; first-rate.
Courageous- possessing or characterized by courage; brave: a courageous speech against the dictator.
Amiable having or showing pleasant, good-natured personal qualities; affable: an amiable disposition.
Strengthening the Brain
Stretching the Brain:
1. Describe what you see
2. Explain your point of view
3. What you saw/heard to make you feel that way
4. Other sources, personal knowledge or ideas
Frail, moving slowly step by step , Harold Martin retraces the steps he once took as a young man. Limping over each line in the track, he is much older than the young prisoner that once walked this path. A humble hero who shows a value entrenched deep into our Australian culture, mateship. Many would shy away from memories of trauma , but not Harold. He has waited over seventy years to say goodbye to his mates who he stood alongside on the grueling and devastating ‘death railway’. A soldier or officer may rant about the hours of work they completed, the sickness they had to withstand, but not this humble hero. As he looks down at the gravestones of lost brothers in arms, there is a sad stillness in his his eyes. He stands there lonely in a moment of reflection as he meets them once again. A humble hero for the resilience he showed, his determination and his quest never to forget his mates,. It is apparent in his story that after seventy years and many kilometres between them. “ he hadn't forgotten them”
Your Turn: Write your own point of view paragraph, remember to include the 4 components :)
Some great quotes:
“it’s time to head back to Burma to say goodbye”
“I haven’t forgotten them”
“married for only a year with a newborn son”
“the conditions were brutal but many of my mates did not survive”
“I’ve been searching for my mates graves for many years and I finally found them”
Stretching the Brain:
1. Describe what you see
2. Explain your point of view
3. What you saw/heard to make you feel that way
4. Other sources, personal knowledge or ideas
Frail, moving slowly step by step , Harold Martin retraces the steps he once took as a young man. Limping over each line in the track, he is much older than the young prisoner that once walked this path. A humble hero who shows a value entrenched deep into our Australian culture, mateship. Many would shy away from memories of trauma , but not Harold. He has waited over seventy years to say goodbye to his mates who he stood alongside on the grueling and devastating ‘death railway’. A soldier or officer may rant about the hours of work they completed, the sickness they had to withstand, but not this humble hero. As he looks down at the gravestones of lost brothers in arms, there is a sad stillness in his his eyes. He stands there lonely in a moment of reflection as he meets them once again. A humble hero for the resilience he showed, his determination and his quest never to forget his mates,. It is apparent in his story that after seventy years and many kilometres between them. “ he hadn't forgotten them”
Your Turn: Write your own point of view paragraph, remember to include the 4 components :)
Some great quotes:
“it’s time to head back to Burma to say goodbye”
“I haven’t forgotten them”
“married for only a year with a newborn son”
“the conditions were brutal but many of my mates did not survive”
“I’ve been searching for my mates graves for many years and I finally found them”
Newspaper Articles on the Thai Burma Railway
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
Firing up the Brain:
Before You Begin You are going to study a bit about the way newspaper articles are written. First, find out what you already know about the news. Read each of the following statements, and decide whether or not you agree with it.
1. News articles are only written about disasters, wars, and other catastrophic events. ______
2. Newspapers print articles that are of interest to readers. ______
3. News articles can use quotes and opinions from witnesses and observers. ______
4. News articles are error-proof. ______
5. If the information is not in the ‘lead’, or introductory, paragraph, it is not important. ______
6. The purpose of news articles is to inform, not to entertain. ______
7. News articles are not enjoyable to read. ______
8. The lead of a news article answers the 5w-1h questions. (who, what, when, where, why, and how) ______
9. The style of a news article is narrative, like a story. ______
10. News articles contain dialogue. ______
11. News articles often contain imaginative details or elements of fantasy. ______
12. A caption is a short piece of text which contains a summary of a news article. ______
13. All news articles are accompanied by pictures. ______
14. ‘Headings’ or ‘headlines’, are long, detailed, complete sentences. ______
15. Locations that are well known do not have to include states. ______
16. If news articles have mistakes, corrections have to be published. ______
17. A news article can sometimes be made up of only a lead paragraph, and still adequately cover the information. ______
18. News articles use a lot of descriptive language ______
19. News articles basically follow the same structure as an essay because they are both informative. ______
20. The skills and techniques used to write news articles, which are non-fiction, and stories, which are fiction, are completely different.
Preparing the Brain:
WWLT: The structure and format of a newspaper article.
WILF: I make good choices.
Stretching the Brain:
Before You Begin You are going to study a bit about the way newspaper articles are written. First, find out what you already know about the news. Read each of the following statements, and decide whether or not you agree with it.
1. News articles are only written about disasters, wars, and other catastrophic events. ______
2. Newspapers print articles that are of interest to readers. ______
3. News articles can use quotes and opinions from witnesses and observers. ______
4. News articles are error-proof. ______
5. If the information is not in the ‘lead’, or introductory, paragraph, it is not important. ______
6. The purpose of news articles is to inform, not to entertain. ______
7. News articles are not enjoyable to read. ______
8. The lead of a news article answers the 5w-1h questions. (who, what, when, where, why, and how) ______
9. The style of a news article is narrative, like a story. ______
10. News articles contain dialogue. ______
11. News articles often contain imaginative details or elements of fantasy. ______
12. A caption is a short piece of text which contains a summary of a news article. ______
13. All news articles are accompanied by pictures. ______
14. ‘Headings’ or ‘headlines’, are long, detailed, complete sentences. ______
15. Locations that are well known do not have to include states. ______
16. If news articles have mistakes, corrections have to be published. ______
17. A news article can sometimes be made up of only a lead paragraph, and still adequately cover the information. ______
18. News articles use a lot of descriptive language ______
19. News articles basically follow the same structure as an essay because they are both informative. ______
20. The skills and techniques used to write news articles, which are non-fiction, and stories, which are fiction, are completely different.
Preparing the Brain:
WWLT: The structure and format of a newspaper article.
WILF: I make good choices.
Stretching the Brain:
Harold Martin Word Banks
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Conditions
Dysentery Atrocious Propaganda Monsoonal weather Primitive Vulnerable Appalling Ruthless Repulsive Malaria Worked to death Hell beyond imagining Simultaneously built railway Putrid Treacherous terrain Audacious Starved to death Gastro Mosquito diseases Hellfire Pass POW Sacrifice Constant rain Damp, horrible conditions Hundreds of fatalities Malnourished Humid Unbearable Deathly stench Claustrophobic No empathy Scorching hot Freezing cold Diarrhea Traumatic River Kwai Defeated by the terrain Relentless ‘Death’ railway 400ft Apprehensive Weathered Prisoners Cruel Dense vegetation Overgrown Virgin Rainforests Gangrene Drillholes in the face of the rock ‘Land of Milk and Honey’ Revolting Steep Severe Fatal conditions Merriman Manual Man-made toilets Faeces overflow Bacteria swimming Traumatising Conditions Killing Diseases Death-Inducing Conditions Slavery Mislead In horror |
Preparing the Brain:
WWLT: Exploring how a newspaper is structured to start writing our Harold Martin piece.
WILF: I am responsible.
Strengthening the Brain:
WWLT: Exploring how a newspaper is structured to start writing our Harold Martin piece.
WILF: I am responsible.
Strengthening the Brain:
Find a newspaper article and use the below template to outline different sections of the article
Use this checklist to ensure your article includes all for the necessary aspects
Assessment Rubric
The information we will be expecting:
Headline ideas
Hell Railway
Death defying times
His darkest days
The struggling life of Harold Martin
Harold Martin the man who thinks he's just a surviver
Burma Thai Railway or Death Railway?
It was like his soul was stuck in prison
Propoganda exposed
Harold Martin prisoner of dark memories
Harold Martin haunted by dark memories
Railway of ghosts
How humble become hero
The journey of hell beyond imagining
primitive past beaten again
A living hell
Years of hardship
Famine, death and disease
Return to death railway
Haunted memories of the death railway
Death rocks families for life
torture re-defined
Harold martin re-claiming his happiness
Heading to use:
Harold Martin
The Burma Thai Railway/Death Railway
The documentary
- Who Harold Martin is... family, age ect how did he become a POW?
- Why the documentary is being produced
- What the documentary will show/ who is producing it
- What happened to Harold and other POW on the Burma Thai Railway?
- Why did the Japanese need to build the railway
- The conditions for the POW/ how many deaths ect how did they get sick?
- Quotes from soldiers, Harold ect
- Images with captions to explain what that images mean
- Minimum of 20 word banks words must be used!
Headline ideas
Hell Railway
Death defying times
His darkest days
The struggling life of Harold Martin
Harold Martin the man who thinks he's just a surviver
Burma Thai Railway or Death Railway?
It was like his soul was stuck in prison
Propoganda exposed
Harold Martin prisoner of dark memories
Harold Martin haunted by dark memories
Railway of ghosts
How humble become hero
The journey of hell beyond imagining
primitive past beaten again
A living hell
Years of hardship
Famine, death and disease
Return to death railway
Haunted memories of the death railway
Death rocks families for life
torture re-defined
Harold martin re-claiming his happiness
Heading to use:
Harold Martin
The Burma Thai Railway/Death Railway
The documentary