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Students list gifts that can be given when someone is leaving

 

leaving- Saying goodbye and reuniting

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Learning sequence 2

Read the story, Leaving by Katrina Germein, again and discuss the purpose of the person leaving and reasons why they are saying goodbye. Discuss how, in many cultures, women leave their own home and family and marry into the man's family.

List the gifts that have been given and who they are from.

  • What is the significance of each gift?

  • What is its meaning to the recipient?

  • What is the meaning of the gift from the giver?

Discuss the type of gifts the students would give to someone leaving. For example if going overseas it might be a photograph of themselves or a book about Australia. Students brainstorm for ideas of gifts that symbolise their friendship/relationship to the person who is leaving and signifies the environment the person is leaving. Why would you give them that gift? Students write their own list of special gifts they would give someone leaving the school.

In small groups, students role-play someone leaving and what we can give them to remember their time at the school.

Discuss the things that you like to take with you when you leave, eg photographs, favourite toys.

  • Why do we like to take things?

Display Margaret Olley's 'Portrait in the Mirror' Card #13 from Diversity- A collection of Art and Culture See Resource list under Kits and/or log onto http://www.yarranet.net.au/womar/star-DAVIES.htm and scroll to the end of the page to view collections by Isabel Davies eg "Natural Order", "Nyall Nyall Specimen Box" and "Altar".

  • Explain that the artists collect all sorts of objects from a particular place or location. When they return to their studios they assemble them. These objects help the artists remember the special time and place.

  • Activity: Students work in pairs or small groups to create a memory collage about the school. They collect items from around the school, ensuring that they include qualities of texture, smell, size etc.

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