Note: This footage and the political ideas within it may be more suited to either a higher ability Year 10 or a Year 11 class rather than Year 9. This footage is particularly useful for the Level One and Two History internal assessments (see NCEA links)
Learning Intentions students are learning to...
- Understand the tension that existed between communist countries and the USA and how this affected New Zealand.
- Consider the relationship between the waterfront lockout and the fifties in general.
Success Criteria how do students know they have achieved the learning intentions?
- Students will be able to identify bias and propaganda in the Cold War footage and account for this.
- Students will be able to compare and contrast aspects of the waterfront lockout with the features more commonly associated with the 1950s.
Relevant Footage
Waterfront Lockout 1951: Background 1951, 151 Days
Lesson Outline
- Show the Background footage of the 1949 general election and have students fill out the table (Resource Four: Ultimate Socialism, Bias and Propaganda) having first given a definition for bias or propaganda and discussed the purpose of these types of communication.
- Show the 1951 Water Front Lockout. 151 Days Extract
1. What is a lockout?
2. What were the effects of the strikes and their spread.
3. Jock Barnes, who was he? This could provide the starting point for a character study research assignment.
- Students can produce an illustrated T Chart comparison. One side showing the features of the waterfront lockout (tension, violence, intervention, hardship of those involved) and the other showing the values which are often seen to underpin the 1950s (harmony, peace, contented nuclear families, conservative values, wealth)
