This term we have been investigating early European Explorers including William Dampier, Matthew Flinders, Willem Jantszoon and Captain James Cook just to name a few. We have also learnt about what life was like back in England and in Australia before the First Fleet. We have been learning about some of the reasons that people were sentenced to transportation and became convicts and which ships they sailed on as part of the First Fleet.
Take a look at some of the convict 'Wanted' posters that we made after researching some of the convicts from the First Fleet. We learnt about their crimes, their original sentences and which ship they were transported on.
We also read a book called a Penny To Remember written by Kirsty Murray, which is about a boy named George who is sentenced to seven years transportation and wants to give his sister something to remember him by. The story is insipred by the convict love tokens that were made by convicts, who would beat a penny until its surface was smooth and then carve a message on it for someone they love and is linked to the love token that is kept at the National Museum here in Canberra. We created images while listening to the story and added them to our summary to create a story board for the book.
What have you learnt during the 'Our Fleeting Past' Inquiry so far?
I learnt that people in the past lived in little houses
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have rubbish they throw it on the rode it washes up into
the houses.
try not to eat to much candy
ReplyDeleteI learnt that most of the convicts who were sentenced to death then got changed into a transportation penalty. I also learnt that all of the ships were not convict ships, some were escort ships and some were storage ships plus the convict ships.
ReplyDeleteI learnt that there where different ships the escort ships
ReplyDeletethe storage ships and the convict ships. I also learnt that the different ship names where the Charlotte the Alexander
the Prince Of Whales the Scarborough the Lady Penrhyn the
Friendship they where the Convict ships The supply ships where Golden Grove the Fishburn and the Borrowdale And the escort ships where HMS Supply and the HMS Sirius. There where 11 different ships.
I learnt that you can get scurvy by not eating enough fresh food.
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