SUBJECTS: English
YEARS: 7–8
What is the best thing about living on a farm out in the countryside? What is the worst?
How does where you live make you the person you are today?
Listen to Jane Gould from Boort, finalist of the 2012 Heywire storytelling competition for young people, talk of the connectedness she feels to the land on which she lives.
Things to think about
- 1.What image do you have of farming life? Think of some of the texts you have seen and read about farmers, particularly Australian ones. Write down some of the impressions they have given you of what it means to be a farmer.
- 2.Create a 'PMI' chart about farming life. Draw up a table with three columns and head them 'Plus', 'Minus', and 'Interesting'. As you listen to Jane's story, identify things that you think are positives or negatives about country life, or just plain interesting! Write these into the appropriate columns on your PMI chart.
- 3.Do you think growing up on a farm has influenced the kind of person Jane is? In a paragraph, explain what seems to be important to Jane and how growing up on a farm has influenced these values.
- 4.Write a one minute speech of your own sharing the experiences you have had within your own environment. Explain whether you share a connection to the place in which you live, like Jane. Rehearse, focusing on speaking clearly and expressively. Use your computer to record your story as an audio file like the one you just listened to.
Date of broadcast: 12 Dec 2012
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