Our reading this week focusses on prison hulks that were used to house convicts who had been sentenced to transportation in England in the 18th century.

Reflecting on what we have read together, think about the following questions and leave your responses as a comment.

• What is one thing the words tell you?

• What are two things the pictures tell you?

• What are three things the pictures and words make you wonder?

 

Part of our Integrated History unit this term, ‘First Contacts,’ is to understand why people might have undertaken long journeys to far away places.

We are going to begin this term investigating explorers who went in search of The Great Southern Land before we were officially colonised by Britain in 1788.

Watch the video below, and using post it notes, take notes about:

• What do you SEE?

• Based on what you see, using your inferring skills, what does that make you THINK of?

• What do you WONDER might be going on or WONDER further about this topic?

Leave your observations as a comment on this post.