Learning Intentions students are learning to...
- Understand the difficulties faced by those who entered into Maori/Pakeha relationships during this time
- Consider the extent to which things have changed in this area since the fifties.
Success Criteria how do students know they have achieved the learning intentions?
- Students will be able to comment on the attitudes seen in the footage on Maori and Maori/Pakeha relationships.
- Students will be able to make informed value statements on mixed relationships during the 1950s.
Relevant Footage
Disk Two
The Boys Hit Town
Lesson Outline
- Begin by briefly discussing whether or not there are situations today when marriages or relationships between people from different cultures might cause tension.
Show The Boys Hit Town:
1. What does Mike McRoberts’ father mean by the phrase ‘white sheep’?
2. What did Lina Manual of Wairoa want to achieve?
3. How did it affect Christchurch?
4. Why were parents apprehensive when Judy and Marty Christie began seeing each other?
5. Marty is reluctant to call Judy’s father racist, do you agree?
6. Do you think the reasons for both sets of parents having reservations would be the same or different?
- As an alternative or in addition to the questions above use the three level viewing guide (Resource Six: Three Level Viewing Guide) as a basis for a discussion on these issues.
