Teacher’s Guide People, Places, and Cultures MAGAZINE ARTICLES The Home of the Sydneysiders . 8 Expository Nonfiction 1350L Architectural Delights . 12 . Expository Nonfiction 1260L The Sydney Opera House . .16 . Expository Nonfiction 1100L A Man and a Bridge: The Story of Paul Cave . 18 Expository Nonfiction 1110L The Dreamtime of Australia’s Aboriginal People . 20 Expository Nonfiction 1130L Sleep Overnight and More at the Taronga Zoo 22 Expository Nonfiction 1340L Celebrating Australia’s Past and Present . .26 . Expository NonfictionThe Home 1160L of the Sydneysiders pg. 8 • Dreamtime pg. 32 Do You Speak Strine? . .28 . Expository NonfictionMAKING 730L WAVES IN AUSTRALIA At Bat with the Sydney Sixers . 30 Expository Nonfiction 1140L The Bunyip . 42 . Folktale/Play 630L Faces: Making Waves in Australia © April 2017 Contents Teacher’s Guide for Faces: OVERVIEW People, Places, and Cultures Making Waves in Australia In this magazine, readers will learn how a Using This Guide . 2. combination of indigenous people Skills and Standards Overview . 3. and British settlers The Home of the Sydneysiders pg. 8 • Dreamtime pg. 32 MAKING WAVES IN AUSTRALIA influenced the development Article Guides . 4 of Sydney, Australia. Faces: Making Waves in Australia includes information about the language, Cross-Text Connections. 14. architecture, legends, and livelihoods that make Sydney distinct. Mini-Unit . 15 Graphic Organizers . .18 . Appendix: Meeting State and National Standards . 19 ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How do Sydney’s human characteristics create a unique sense of place? 1 Faces: Making Waves in Australia © April 2017 Using This Guide We invite you to use this magazine as a flexible teaching tool, ideal for providing interdisciplinary instruction of social studies and science content as well as core literacy concepts . Find practical advice for teaching individual articles or use a mini-unit that helps your students make cross-text connections as they integrate ideas and information . READ INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES PAGES 4 – 13 Each article in this magazine is well-suited for teaching literacy concepts and content area knowledge . For each individual article in this guide, you’ll find the following: Prepare to Read Essential Question CCSS Speaking and Listening 1, 2, 4 Content Concepts C3 Framework for Social Studies Close Reading and Text Analysis Next Generation Science Standards CCSS Reading 1-10 Key Vocabulary Writing/Speaking and Listening CCSS Reading 4 CCSS Writing 1, 2, 3 & 6 CCSS Speaking and Listening 1, 2, 4 TEACH A MINI-UNIT PAGES 15 – 17 SOCIAL Magazine articles can easily be grouped to make cross-text STUDIES connections and comparisons . Our Mini-Unit allows students to read and discuss multiple articles and integrate ideas and information (CCSS .Reading .9) . Discussing multiple articles (CCSS .Reading .9) prepares students to write texts to share and CORE publish in a variety of ways (CCSS Writing. .2) . LITERACY ARTICLES 2 Faces: Making Waves in Australia © April 2017 Skills and Standards Overview Essential Question: How do Sydney’s human characteristics create a unique sense of place? MAGAZINE CORE CONTENT LITERACY CORRESPONDING CCSS ARTICLES CONCEPT SKILLS ANCHOR STANDARDS The Home of the Historical events influence the • Close Reading Reading 1, 3, 5 & 8 Sydneysiders development of a culture . • Analyze Text Structure Writing 2 Expository Nonfiction • Evaluate Evidence • Write a Postcard Architectural Delights: The Geographic and man-made • Close Reading Reading 1, 3, 6 & 7 Sydney Opera House and features can inhibit or facilitate • Understand Point of Writing 1 Sydney Harbor Bridge the movement of people . View Expository Nonfiction • Interpret Visual Information • Write an Editorial The Sydney Opera House: Individuals may shape • Close Reading Reading 1, 2, 3, 5 & 6 Jorn Utzon’s Greatest significant historical change . • Analyze Text Structure Writing 1 Symphony • Analyze Author’s Tone Expository Nonfiction • Write a Court Ruling A Man and a Bridge: The Individuals may shape • Close Reading Reading 1, 3, 4 & 8 Story of Paul Cave significant historical change . • Interpret Figurative Writing 2 Expository Nonfiction Meaning • Evaluate Evidence • Write a Business Letter The Dreamtime of Australia’s Oral traditions reflect cultural • Close Reading Reading 1, 3, 6 & 8 Aboriginal People elements of place . • Understand Point of Writing 3 Expository Nonfiction View • Evaluate Evidence • Write a Fictional Story Sleep Overnight and More at Both human and physical • Close Reading Reading 1, 3, 7 & 8 the Taronga Zoo characteristics can distinguish • Interpret Visual Speaking & Listening 1 & 6 Expository Nonfiction places from one another . Information • Evaluate Evidence • Read Aloud Celebrating Australia’s Past Historical contexts have shaped • Close Reading Reading 1, 2, 3, 4 & 6 and Present and continue to shape people’s • Analyze Word Choice Speaking & Listening 1 & 6 Expository Nonfiction perspectives . • Understand Point of View • Collaborate Do You Speak Strine? Language helps distinguish one • Close Reading Reading 1, 2, 4 & 5 Expository Nonfiction place from another . • Analyze Word Choice Writing 2 • Analyze Text Structure • Compose an Email At Bat with the Sydney Human activities affect the • Close Reading Reading 1, 3, 7 & 8 Sixers cultural characteristics of • Interpret Visual Writing 2 Expository Nonfiction places or regions . Information • Evaluate Evidence • Prepare an Interview The Burnyip Oral traditions reflect cultural • Close Reading Reading 1, 2, 3, 4 & 8 Folktale/Play elements of place . • Analyze Literary Devices Writing 2 • Evaluate Evidence • Analyze a Character Comparing Texts: Reading 9 Mini-Unit: Reading 1, 2 & 3; Writing 2; Speaking & Listening 1 & 4 3 Faces: Making Waves in Australia © April 2017 ARTICLE: The Home of the Sydneysiders Magazine pages 8-11, Expository Nonfiction The by Marcia Amidon Lusted Home of the Sydneysiders For indigenous people, British settlers, and today’s Indigenous Australians have lived in and around Sydney for 30,000 years. These ancient people migrated from northern Australia and southeast Asia, and remnants of stone tools found near Sydney suggest that there may have been humans living there even 50,000 years ago. By the time European settlers arrived, 1350 there were thousands of indigenous people from 29 different clans immigrants, Sydney’s natural geographic location as living in the Sydney area. They were probably drawn by Sydney’s huge harbor, the largest natural harbor in the world. With the nearby Blue Mountains to the west and the Hawkesbury River to the north, it was also an attractive location for the first settlers from England, who arrived in 1788. They decided to use Sydney as a prison colony, because once the American Revolution had taken place, they could no longer send criminals to the American colonies. Those who were convicted of crimes in England were now transported to Sydney. They did not a harbor has always made it a popular place to settle . live in prison buildings, since being sent to such a far-off corner of the world was punishment in itself. Both convicts and their officers came close to starving because not enough food was grown and the colony was so isolated from supply ships. A new governor, Lachlan Macquarie, took control in 1810 and was determined to improve life in the colony. t’s one of the He created a plan for new buildings and improved trade. By Today, as home to an estimated 5 million people, Sydney Imost visited cities the time England stopped transporting them in 1840, the in the world, and landmarks like thousands of convicts who had been sent there had helped build the city’s roads, bridges, its famous opera house are familiar to wharves, and public buildings. almost everyone. It’s also a multicultural city, in which 250 different languages is a multicultural center aimed at honoring its past while Bondi Beach, a half-mile stretch are spoken daily by people who have of golden sand, is one of Sydney’s moved there from many other places. most popular spots. And if you’re a Sydneysider, then you also call this city of almost five million people home. Have you guessed where you are? You’re in exile Score: exile looking forward to a bright future . Sydney, Australia, the capital of New South Wales and the biggest city in Australia and Oceania. L 8 a99 ESSENTIAL PREPARE TO READ QUESTION Show students pictures of Sydney’s geography . Ask students to make How do Sydney’s human characteristics create a predictions on how people arrived there . Instruct students to check their unique sense of place? predictions as they read . CORE CONTENT CONCEPT CLOSE READING AND TEXT ANALYSIS Social Studies Historical events influence the development of a Key Ideas culture . • Use details from the text to construct a timeline of important events in Sydney’s development into a metropolitan center . CCSS Reading 1 • Refer to characteristics mentioned throughout the article to answer this CROSS-CURRICULAR question: What is a Sydneysider? CCSS Reading 1 EXTENSION • Compare/contrast Sydney to a metropolitan city near you . Cite textual History What was life like for the evidence in your comparison . CCSS Reading 3 British convicts? Did they ever gain their freedom? Conduct short Craft and Structure research into this topic and report your findings to the class . • Analyze Text Structure This author begins the article using a chronological format . The final page switches to a spatial organization . Why did the author do this and what effect does it have on the tone/mood of the article? KEY VOCABULARY CCSS Reading 5 indigenous (p. 9) living or • Evaluate Evidence The author claims there are two main reasons Sydney’s existing naturally in a particular region immigrants arrived . Evaluate the evidence mentioned describing each reason . or environment Is it relevant? Is it sufficient to support the author’s claim? CCSS Reading 8 migrate (p. 9) to move from one country or place to live or work in another WRITING wharf (p. 9) a flat structure that is Write a Postcard Imagine you are touring Sydney on vacation .