HaSS & English
HaSS Skills- Communicating and Reflecting:
Present findings, conclusions and/or arguments, appropriate to audience and purpose, in a range of communication forms (e.g. written, oral, visual, digital, tabular, graphic, maps) and using subject-specific terminology and concepts
Present findings, conclusions and/or arguments, appropriate to audience and purpose, in a range of communication forms (e.g. written, oral, visual, digital, tabular, graphic, maps) and using subject-specific terminology and concepts
Andrew Barton (Banjo) Paterson(1864–1941)
Banjo Paterson was born in Narambla in New South Wales. He was a farmer and a lawyer who became famous for his poetry. He later worked in the city as a newspaper and magazine editor, but disliked city life. In the First World War he joined up as a soldier and became an ambulance driver.
Paterson wrote many well-known Australian poems, including 'The Man from Snowy River', 'Clancy of the Overflow' and 'The Man from Ironbark'. Many people also believe that he wrote the words to 'Waltzing Matilda'. His poems and stories have been published many times. His work has also been recorded, broadcast on the radio and made into films and a television series. His picture is on the $10 note and on stamps.
Banjo Paterson was born in Narambla in New South Wales. He was a farmer and a lawyer who became famous for his poetry. He later worked in the city as a newspaper and magazine editor, but disliked city life. In the First World War he joined up as a soldier and became an ambulance driver.
Paterson wrote many well-known Australian poems, including 'The Man from Snowy River', 'Clancy of the Overflow' and 'The Man from Ironbark'. Many people also believe that he wrote the words to 'Waltzing Matilda'. His poems and stories have been published many times. His work has also been recorded, broadcast on the radio and made into films and a television series. His picture is on the $10 note and on stamps.
Discussion Questions
1. What song is known as Australia’s “unofficial national anthem”?
2. Where would you see Banjo Paterson’s face most often?
3. What was Banjo Paterson’s real name? 4. Where did his nickname come from?
5. Name two jobs that Banjo Paterson had in his lifetime.
6. What Banjo Paterson poem was made into a movie and a TV series?
7. What inspired a lot of Banjo Paterson’s poetry?
8. Why do you think Banjo Paterson’s poetry was so popular?
1. What song is known as Australia’s “unofficial national anthem”?
2. Where would you see Banjo Paterson’s face most often?
3. What was Banjo Paterson’s real name? 4. Where did his nickname come from?
5. Name two jobs that Banjo Paterson had in his lifetime.
6. What Banjo Paterson poem was made into a movie and a TV series?
7. What inspired a lot of Banjo Paterson’s poetry?
8. Why do you think Banjo Paterson’s poetry was so popular?
Activity
Banjo Paterson Using the information from the BtN story and their own research, students will create a summary of Banjo Paterson’s life.
Banjo Paterson Using the information from the BtN story and their own research, students will create a summary of Banjo Paterson’s life.
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Vocabulary
Billabong, billy, coolibah tree, jumbuck, matilda, squatter, swagman, tucker, tuckerbag, waltzing matilda
traditional, barren, scorched outback, zincalume, dishevelled, drought stricken, strike, shearing, bush ranger, arid, dust ridden, SCAB labour, immigrants, erode pay, bandit, felon, tumultuous, felon, lapping up water unknowingly, plumes of smoke, weary , companion, loyal, clambering, arms stretched, well worn shoes, poverty stricken, lurched forward, propelled his legs, stuffing eagerly inside, stowed away, hostility, troopers, police heavy handed, perplexed sheep, ambushed the swaggie, rapid succession of bullet figure, peering out, defence, hooves rapidly leaving ebbs in the dusty dirt, apprehended, heavy hand-idly cuffed his arm, riot, arson, roaring flames violently, frantic sheep splaying in all directions, dismay, out of options, bleak future, mistaken identity
Art Work
Create a portrait of Banjo Paterson or an artwork that shows a scene from Waltzing Matilda. Encourage students to explore and experiment with different techniques and media to produce their artwork. These could include painting, drawing, photography, collage or mixed media.
Big Question Idea- How did Banjo Patterson contribute to Australia's National Identity?
WA Curriculum - Links
Year 6 -
Identify the relationship between words, sounds, imagery and language patterns in narratives and poetry such as ballads, limericks and free verse. (ACELT1617)
WALT - Identify and analyse the structure and what language patterns and devices he uses in the poem.
WILF - With your shoulder partner you have identified the poems structure, language pattern, poetics devices such as metaphor, similes or personification. Decode the meanings of colloquial Australian language of the era. .
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With your shoulder partner sort images in order, reflecting Banjo's poem of Waltzing Matilda. Write the words under the image.
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Let us read and reflect Freya Blackwood's version of Waltzing Matilda.
The Shearing Industry of Australia
Task 1. Write a summary using the key words from the BTN clip.
HaSS Curriculum Links
Analysing -
Translate collected information and/or data to a variety of different formats (e.g. create a timeline, draw maps, convert a table of statistics into a graph) (WAHASS58)
Evaluating -
Draw and justify conclusions, and give explanations, based on the information and/or data in texts, tables, graphs and maps (e.g. identify patterns, infer relationships) (WAHASS59)
Task 2: Create a Timeline.
Shearing is a significant industry to Australia.
Create a timeline of the industry illustrating any milestones, significant individuals and make mention of the shearers strike that Banjo Paterson's Waltzing Matilda refers to.
The illustrations will assist with making sense of the conditions and equipment shearers use across the years.
Senses Poem - Free Verse
WALT - Create a poem that captures what it is like to be a shearer.
WILF - Descriptive language that captures the essence of being a shearer.
You will be using the images above to assist you with creating your senses poem.
See
Undulating, ocher smothered landscape engulfs the land
Innocent eyes portray small years experienced
Cramped, bewildered in this confined space
Cotton-candy wool is my works attire
Hear
A humming resonates through the air
Creak, slam bursts of hesitance slide in to the well-worn boards
Heaved and prodded into position
Brute strength is required, for the job is manual
'plop, plop'
Undulating, ocher smothered landscape engulfs the land
Innocent eyes portray small years experienced
Cramped, bewildered in this confined space
Cotton-candy wool is my works attire
Hear
A humming resonates through the air
Creak, slam bursts of hesitance slide in to the well-worn boards
Heaved and prodded into position
Brute strength is required, for the job is manual
'plop, plop'
Word banks
Caged, pressure, suspended, comply, stunned, trapped, trembling, anxious, out-witted, toying with emotions, disregarded, restrained, dog at my tail, overwhelmed, swift, yelping, comply, claustrophobic, herding, ostracized, mustering, fatigue, leaping, dancing across the dirtpeeling the wool off my skin like a person peels an ornage, cotton-candy, barking orders, tourmenting, clenched hands, grasping, constriction,
Caged, pressure, suspended, comply, stunned, trapped, trembling, anxious, out-witted, toying with emotions, disregarded, restrained, dog at my tail, overwhelmed, swift, yelping, comply, claustrophobic, herding, ostracized, mustering, fatigue, leaping, dancing across the dirtpeeling the wool off my skin like a person peels an ornage, cotton-candy, barking orders, tourmenting, clenched hands, grasping, constriction,
One swift heave of the machinery, support apparatus in place
Trembling overwhelm a usually mellow creature as it's pushed beyond its grace
Bare arms, pay packet in mind
Hearded, prodded and nipped at the cotton-candy like behind
Trembling overwhelm a usually mellow creature as it's pushed beyond its grace
Bare arms, pay packet in mind
Hearded, prodded and nipped at the cotton-candy like behind