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Prompt 6

While exploring videos on the Indigenous topic, I came across this video ‘Discover the diversity of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages’ on the Splash ABC website. The video caters to the language and variation substrand from the Australian Curriculum and is perfect for year 6 to make them aware and acknowledge the several ‘social and geographical dialects’ prevalent in Australia apart from the Australian English that we speak.

This video would be really good for the frontloading sessions for the picture book ‘Welcome To Country’ by ‘Aunty Joy Murphy’. The students through this video will explore the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders’ culture and practices. After watching the video, the students will make notes of important actions and try and predict their meaning. Further, highlighting the similarities and differences in a class discussion. Students will have an idea about the language and the communication patterns of a different cultural group within the same country, thus, exploring the diversity in Australia, which they would come across in the book.

http://splash.abc.net.au/home#!/media/1916032/discover-the-diversity-of-australia-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-languages

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Prompt 6

The video ‘Discover the Diversity of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages’ from Splash ABC is a great resource that introduces students to the diverse range of Indigenous languages and tribes across Australia. A literacy unit based on the book ‘Welcome to Country’ by Joy Murphy could include a frontloading lesson with this video. This book is about the Wurundjeri tribe, their language and their way of life. The video from Splash ABC could act as a resource to introduce students to the idea of different tribes and languages and their diversity, before focusing in on and deeply exploring the local one of Wurundjeri in the text.

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Week 7 Prompt Response

Link to video: http://splash.abc.net.au/home#!/media/1503850/race-against-time-preserving-ngan-gi-bush-lore Screenshot sample of the chosen video:

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Prompt 6

The video that i have chosen to focus on a front loading activity is ‘discover the diversity Of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander language. In this video, different groups of students are singing, head, shoulders, knees and toes in 5 different aboriginal languages; Kalaw Kawaw Ya, Warrgamay, Nywaygi, Yugambeh or Wiradjuri. This is a great video to show to the students that there are so many different languages in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

In my activity, I would pair the students, and then assign each of the pairs to one of the languages heard in the song. They are then to practice the lyrics to the movements, just like in the video. After they have practice, they are to perform to one other group, first stating what language they will be singing. 

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Prompt 6 - Online Material

Yaama Ghubhii: Indigenous Connect Song

On the Splash ABC website, I watched the above mentioned video. The children in it were singing about their connectedness to the land, and their reasons why they love it. This lyrics are sung in their traditional language as well as in English. It provides various sounds and images for the students to be able to consider whilst watching it.  The front loading activity I would use prior to showing my students the video is reading “The Rainbow Serpent” by Dick Roughsey. I have chosen this book specifically because the song mentions the Rainbow Serpent, and I would like to see how many children in the class are actually listening and identify that it has been mentioned. If they are paying attention to the well-thought out lyrics that are being shared, they will identify some other topics and themes that will be further explored through independent research later on. 

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Prompt 6 "Discover the diversity of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages" This video found on splash.abc.net.au shows 5 different Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages. This short clip showed me the importance of learning these languages in schools. Schools often learn one language other than English but I haven't heard of a school in my local area learning an Indigenous language. You could get the students to do a KWL chart before watching this video. The students would write what they 'know' and 'want to know' about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture. The students could then share there knowledge with a partner.

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