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Kampung Boy Author:Lat ISBN: 9780980607000 RRP: $22.99 Publisher: Wilkins Farago Teachers’ Notes and Student Activities Compiled by Helen Mcintyre Contents 1 Kampung Boy Author:Lat ISBN: 9780980607000 RRP: $22.99 Publisher: Wilkins Farago Teachers’ notes and student activities compiled by Helen McIntyre Contents 1. About the book 2. Discussion points, questions and Activities for Teachers and Parents 3. Further Resources 4. About the contributors 5. Other books by Wilkins Farago with Teaching resources 1. About The Book Lat’s Kampung Boy is a timeless favourite of millions of readers in Southeast Asia. With masterful economy worthy of Charles Schultz, Lat recounts the life of Mat, a Muslim boy growing up in rural Malaysia in the 1950s: his adventures and mischief-making, fishing trips, religious education, and work on his family’s rubber plantation. Meanwhile, the traditional way of life in his village (or kampung) is steadily disappearing, with tin mines and factory jobs increasingly overtaking the village’s agricultural way of life. When Mat himself leaves for boarding school, he can only hope that his familiar kampung will still be there when he returns. This delightful autobiographical graphic novel is hilarious and affectionate, with brilliant, super- expressive artwork that opens a window into ordinary Malay life. Such is the affection for this book in his native Malaysia, Lat has been honoured as one of that country’s national treasures, entitled to the honorary title, ‘Datuk’ 2. Discussion points and ques- • If children are encountering this for the first time, Lat’s drawings are endearing. They tions for teachers and parents communicate both care on the adults’ part, Pre-reading questions and activities: and pride and confusion on the child’s part. It may be appropriate to discuss • Show students a map of Malaysia, and its medical reasons for circumcision. place in relation to Australia. Are these Style: Kampung Boy is written in the first countries in the same hemisphere? Does • person ‘I’ voice, and much of it has a comic the map show land-use? Discuss this. Can tone. The narrator is also the illustrator, students find out how many hours flight time and many of the illustrations are hilarious. between Melbourne and Kuala Lumpur, or At the same time Kampung Boy is highly between their nearest capital city and KL? informative about family relationships, Point out the city of Ipoh, the nearest big cultural practices and the environment of centre to Lat’s kampung. Point out Malay- 1950s Malaysia. sia’s proximity to Indonesia. • The reading of Kampung Boy and the • Do a Venn Diagram class brainstorm to completion of the following activities will establish the prior knowledge of students. assist students to:- Label one circle Malaysian history and traditions, the other circle Malaysia to- Understand Asia day. The intersection of the two circles will Develop informed attitudes and values provide space for students’ knowledge Know about contemporary and tradi about Malaysia which fits both labels. This tional Asia brainstorm will establish any knowledge of Malaysia. Connect Asia and Australia Cultural understandings: Communicate effectively (National Statement for Engaging Young Aus- • Teachers should read The Really Big Be- tralians with Asia in Australian Schools, 2006. lief Projects Book (Costain, M, Curriculum http://asiaeducation.edu.au/index_flash.htm) Corporation, 2009) to consolidate under- standings of beliefs including Islam from the point of view of children in Australia. They may find it useful to present to the class during the study of Kampung Boy. • The text is presented in English, and is sprinkled with Bahasa Malay words. This is very similar to Bahasa Indonesian which is taught in many Australian schools. This presents opportunities for LOTE Indonesian students. • Australian classrooms will have a range of understandings and experience about male circumcision. This will range from no under- standing to having boys who have had a similar ceremony to Lat. Teachers will need to guage this appropriately. Teachers’ Notes © Copyright 2009, Wilkins Farago Pty Ltd PO Box 78, Albert Park, Victoria 3206, Australia | Tel/fax (03) 9636 3026 [email protected] | www.wilkinsfarago.com.au Questions: from Lat’s birth to the chanting of a sacred Lat presents his ‘birth to adolescence’ boy- lyric around him. Are there any similarities hood story in the following 10 segments:- with the way you were welcomed into the world? Can you find out? Explain. 1. Birth and toddlerhood P 4-13 • How did Lat’s mother care for him as a 2. From 4 years to 6 years P 15-43 baby? Quote from the story. • We see the beginning of Lat’s love and 3. Aged 6 years:- school, friendships and fun curiosity for the environment in this section. 4. The first time out of the kampung for a How does Lat, the author and illustrator, wedding P 66 – 73 show this awakening? • So far, what is similar and different to your 5. Aged 9 years – fishing, mischief and house and environment? drawing P 74 – 94 • On Page 14 what do you think that the 6. Aged 10 years – circumcision ceremonies P large pot at the bottom of the steps is used 95-107 for? Why? 7. Tin panning mischief P 108 – 123 2. From 4 years to 6 years (P 15-43) 8. Family rubber plantation lesson and future planning P124-132 At the age of four happiness was seeing Aunt Khatijah, a rubber small-holder, com- 9. Change in land-use in Malaysia – from ing back from her daily tapping late in the plantations to tin mines P133 – 134 morning… 10. Off to boarding school and farewell • Why would the rubber latex preparation kampung P 135 - 142 be so interesting to a toddler? What are its attractions? How can we tell from the illustrations? Post reading questions and activities for the 10 segments: • We can tell that the Aunt paces herself through the process. Why does she need 1. Birth and toddlerhood (P 4-14) to do this? Think about the climate and the time of day indicated in the illustration. I was born about 10 o’çlock on a Monday • What is Lat’s job with Maimunah? Is her morning in our house…Father was under ‘rocking cradle’ expensive? What was your the house waiting anxiously. first responsibility in the family? • Did you have a homebirth like Lat, or a • How do we know that Lat’s mother is angry hospital birth? If you had a homebirth, do at him for wandering off to see the tin-min- you know who the midwife was? ing dredge? • If you are Australian and you do not live in I was so afraid of what Mum would do to northern Australia you may find it strange that ‘Father was under the house’. What me I was running like a barking deer….. are the climate and architectural reasons • This is funny, but it is also informative. What for this? What is the cultural rea- is a barking deer and where do they live? son? • Are they now endangered in Malaysia? • Create a time-line of the events Why? that occur in the family household Teachers’ Notes © Copyright 2009, Wilkins Farago Pty Ltd PO Box 78, Albert Park, Victoria 3206, Australia | Tel/fax (03) 9636 3026 [email protected] | www.wilkinsfarago.com.au • Lat describes the dredge as a monster. This became sleepy? can be understood and literally symbolical- • Did you learn in a second or third lan- , particularly if you have read the whole ly guage when you were small, like Lat learns book. Explain why. some Arabic?Explain. • Why does Lat see his father as a funny fel- • What is the Koran? low? Create a word-web and write phrases from the story inside the web-circles for evi- • How do kampung men socialize when they dence. Decorate your word-web with your are in town? favourite illustration from this page 24 - 36 section. I had so much to learn. I couldn’t swim • At the same time that Lat’s father is being and I didn’t know how to handle a fish funny and entertaining, he is often teaching and I thought it was up to these fellows the children too. List examples of this. to teach me. I was extremely proud to be with them. 3. Aged 6 years - school, friendships and fun (P 44 - 65 ) • The pages of drawings around this extract communicate the joy of friendship, fishing, My enrolment in the class was done in swimming and river wilderness encounters the traditional way….Dad handed over to without adult supervision. Did you grow Tuan Syed a bowl of glutinous rice, a fee up like this at all? Did your parents? If you of $1, and a small cane and then said, grew up in an urban environment, were ‘Tuan I am handing my son over to you in there similarities? the hope you will teach him The Koran. Treat him as if he is your own child. If he 4. The first time out of the kampung for a wed- is stubborn or naughty don’t hesitate to ding (P 66 – 73) punish him with this cane – as long as you My family and I were in the party that ac- don’t break any of his bones or blind him’. companied the groom to the Akad Nikah • Ask your parents or grandparents whether ceremony at the bride’s house. the above description of schooling was similar for them in the 1950s, for example • Construct an A4 poster with 2 columns. the threat of corporal punishment. Label one column Lat’s relative’s wedding in Malaysia, 1950s. Label the other A 21st • What techniques in Lat’s drawings from century wedding in my family. Then list the P44 - 49 emphasise the fear of the six year events in the ceremonies in Kampung Boy old? from P 66- 72, and next to each event in • Is it true that you can get sleepy in an after- the other column list a similar or opposite noon class? Explain.
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