Year 6: Identify, describe, and discuss similarities and differences between texts, including those by the same author or illustrator, and evaluate characteristics that define an author’s individual style
Australian Curriculum Focus:
What will I learn?
What will I learn?
What I am looking for? Critical and creative thinking
Before Reading ✚ What do you notice when you look at the cover of the book? How would you describe the cover design? ✚ Based on the visual inferences you have made regarding the cover of the book. Make an educated guess about what the 'The Arrival' is about During Reading:
✚ Discuss the use of colour in the illustrations and the possible reasons for the choices made by the author. ✚ Analyse the images on the first and second pages and discuss the significance and importance to the family of the displayed items ✚ Do you recognise any of the items? ✚ Describe the hand gesture shown between the two characters in the kitchen scene ✚ identify items of significance and importance within their own families and discuss similarities and differences to items in the book ✚ Using your white boards draw a Venn Diagram Write down as many similarities between the characters items of significance shown and the ones you have at home. ✚ Write down as many differences between the characters items of significance shown and the ones you have at home. ✚ discuss why similarities and differences exist between the characters’ items and your own. Are these reflective of the time period? |
Task
Year 6 Curriculum: ( Multimodal text) Analyse and evaluate how people, cultures, places, events, objects and concepts are represented in texts, including media texts, through language, structural and/or visual choices ✚ Write a journal entry written from the perspective of the main character (the father) on the night before he is to leave his family- The entry will form the narration of the first few pages of the text. It needs to evoke the emotions of the reader. Put yourself in his mind- how would you be feeling? ✚ In the entry you also need to explore and explain the possible reasons for leaving and his thoughts and feelings about this event. |
April 16th 1900
The thought of packing my case makes me feel nauseous, the dull misery and sorrow i am feeling has become more and more of a burden as the day i leave nears closer. I can not share how i am feeling with my loved ones, I am meant to be the strong one, the man of the household. Some man I am, I can not even provide the necessities my family needs to live. We are living in this impoverished environment, broken and chipped items at every glance. How did we get here? Why did this beast set its-self upon my homeland?
Clasping the picture i hold so dearly to my heart, it shall be my beacon of light as i embark on this journey.
The thought of packing my case makes me feel nauseous, the dull misery and sorrow i am feeling has become more and more of a burden as the day i leave nears closer. I can not share how i am feeling with my loved ones, I am meant to be the strong one, the man of the household. Some man I am, I can not even provide the necessities my family needs to live. We are living in this impoverished environment, broken and chipped items at every glance. How did we get here? Why did this beast set its-self upon my homeland?
Clasping the picture i hold so dearly to my heart, it shall be my beacon of light as i embark on this journey.
After Reading
✚ Review the remaining pages of Part I and discuss the sequence of events, answering questions such as:
✚ What is the family preparing to do? + How do the characters feel about this event?
✚ How has the author allowed you to understand the feelings of the characters?
✚ Interpret and analyse the use of a ‘spiked tail’ in several of the illustrations as the family is walking through the city
✚ Examine the use of the image and discuss: + what this image may represent + why the author may choose to include this image on these particular pages.
✚ Predict where the father is going and why he is leaving the family
✚ Review the remaining pages of Part I and discuss the sequence of events, answering questions such as:
✚ What is the family preparing to do? + How do the characters feel about this event?
✚ How has the author allowed you to understand the feelings of the characters?
✚ Interpret and analyse the use of a ‘spiked tail’ in several of the illustrations as the family is walking through the city
✚ Examine the use of the image and discuss: + what this image may represent + why the author may choose to include this image on these particular pages.
✚ Predict where the father is going and why he is leaving the family
Vocabulary Word Bank
Australian Curriculum Focus:
What will I learn?
What will I learn?
What I am looking for? Critical and creative thinking
Task 1 Teacher
✚ What is the main character is doing in these illustrations? ✚ What do you infer the main character could be thinking? ✚ Interpret the pages where a large group of people are sitting together on the ship and answer questions such as: + Who are the people in this illustration? + How do the people feel? + What makes you think that? ✚ Continue to review the story up to pages 12 to 18 of Part II, where the ship arrives at its destination and the people are leaving the ship and going through a series of tasks/situations. Discuss and describe: ✚ What is happening during this time in the book? + Who is involved in dealing with the new arrivals at this time? Task 3
1) View the ‘Speaking the Language’ clip 2. Discuss and record on your mind map: – what kind of language difficulties might immigrants face? 3. View excerpts from ‘The Arrival’ by Red Leap Theatre 4. Discuss and record on your mind map: – How is Tan’s book adapted in this theatre production? – What methods are used for expression and communication? |
Task 2
Compare and Contrast- Author inspiration View some of the images that inspired Shaun Tan in his illustrations. Search the internet/follow the links for: a) Coming South, 1886, Tom Roberts b) ‘Over Land by Rail’, Gustave Dore, 1870 c) Photographs of Ellis Island, New York, 1892–1954 d) 1912 photography of a newsboy announcing the sinking of Titanic 2. Locate the illustrations where Tan has referenced these images, and compare them 3. On a mind node, record questions, similarities and differences in the images, the effect of visual referencing, why those particular images may have. Task 4
1) Search for key facts in the history of immigration to Australia and the United States 2. On your mind map, record questions, information you find regarding reasons for migration, statistics and trends ( This needs to be a separate branch on your mind node- think about the 'push and pull factors' ) |