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1. What first attracts your gaze on your image? The different colours on each page attract my attention, also the small amount of writing on each page and the strange shapes for objects.

2. Can you see a vector (line) that suggests a relationship or lack of relationship between the participants in the image? What does this suggest about their relationship? Why? I see a line on dps 8 when they are having a fight and the pictures are seperate and this shows the two cultures seperation and differences from each other.

3. What significance might the reading path have? The reading path makes us think a bit more because as we gaze over to the other half of the page we look at the pictures and then we see the other half of the sentence, as seen in dps 3.

1. Is there a strong symbol in the text. What might it symbolise? The symbol that I have found is on dps 12 where there are many clocks. I believe this might symbolise the aboriginals time ticking away.

2. Notice other smaller symbols surrounding the central image, what might the composer’s message be? The smaller symbols are all the rabbits under the clocks which show how the country will turn to the British because of sheer numbers

3. Colour is also symbolic and creates powerful connotations. What do you notice about the colours used in the image? Can you suggest why there might be strong contrasts in the colours? The colours in this particular image is a very strong white and black outlines for shapes.

2. Discuss what the meaning of the book is

- What is the message

3. Make a list of some visual techniques that you think help creat these meanings.

Eg: Colour, participants, setting

4. Discuss what you think colours represent in this book.

2. The meaning of the book is to illustrate and inform the reader of how life changed for the Aboriginal Australianss when the Europeans arrived. The meaning of the book is to show how the Europeans impacted in a negative way on the Aboriginals lives.

3. The colour, shades, Textures of the pictures help to get the meaning across. Also the symbolism helps to convey the meaning of the book.

4. Colours in this book represent dominance, moods, death and the different atmospheres.

6. the metaphors in this poem are in lines 17-19..they describe things that arent possible like “we are the nature and the past” they are significant in this poem because it shows how in touch the aborigines were with their land.

8.Thunder has a capital letter because it is used for personification “that loud fellow” and for a name a capital letter is always used.

9.The mood is a negative one, the aborigines want their land back and the white people will keep using it until they have sapped all the life out of it.

10.I believe that the title of the poem incorporates the central theme of aboriginals being pushed out of their natural areas and how their cultures and traditions are being lost along with them which is mentioned at the end.

What significant moment in Indigenous History occurs this week?How may you use this as supplementary material?

What is your aim for this lesson?

A. This week the significant event that occurs for aboriginal people was the apology to aboriginal people who were part of the stolen generation.

A2. We can use this apology as one of the most significant events for aboriginal people when we are designing our timeling for our preamble.

A3. My aim for this lesson is to dig in depth about the stolen generation and information about it.