With this book I examined context, I used a teaching unit from PETAA to support this teaching, one of the initial tasks I did was to predict whose point of view is this story written... The children were considering the Australian soldiers or the Turkish soldiers. One of the things they noticed on the front cover were the two soldiers, and they were wearing slouch hats... Australian soldiers wore slouch hats. We compared this to the uniform of the Ottoman Empire to confirm this. I am also trying to get my students to use two pieces of evidence to support their thoughts so I had them examine the words on the cover and they then made the link between Cannankale and Gallipoli and confirmed it must be a story from the ANZACs... I loved this story and the children made lots of connections to what we have learnt in class, we examined maps and the children could visualise where Eygpt was, Lemnos, Lone Pine all settings names in this story. When they heard Simpson and his donkey Duffy mentioned they all shared a connection to prior learning. We deeply analysed the historical and cultural contexts for this story and will continue this learning until our Anzac Day service.
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