Students use prepared timeline activity to pinpoint influential societal events for New Zealand women over time to help provide an historical background to the texts.
Learning intentions Students are learning to…
- To identify key historical moments for NZ women and their possible influence on messages and representations in texts.
Success criteria (How do students know they have achieved success?)
I can…
- I can I can arrange a timeline of key historical events.
- I can explain why one of these events may have been important for the development of NZ women’s identity.
Activities
This lesson gives students the chance to think about background events that might have contributed to the representations, messages and values being presented or suggested in the extracts.
Provide students with timeline activity. They will need to cut out the events and put into relevant decade on timeline in their books. They should devote a whole page to this. This should take about 20 minutes.
Ask them to all choose an event they think is the most important one. Get up and find other students who have the same event as you. Ask them to get into decade order. Ascertain which event / events seem to be the most influential.
Once they have sat down get them to write the event in their books. Have a class discussion about why this event might be so significant and how it might have changed things. Record the responses for this on the board for them to write down.
Homework: Get students to ask a caregiver / parent / employer / friend about what they consider to be the single most important event for women of this century in New Zealand.
Handouts
Timeline activity
