Kōkiri Learn

Week 3 of 5

What do the sources say? Photographs, speeches and talanoa

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Session 1 · TRACE: Accounts

Reading a photograph

  1. 10 minSee, think, wonder: look closely at the photo of the 1972 Māori language petition arriving at Parliament. What do you see? What do you think is happening? What do you wonder?
  2. 20 minSource stations: a photo of the Selma marchers, the Civil Rights Act signing photo, an extract from a Greensboro student's later interview, and a short extract of Dr King's 'I Have a Dream' speech. For each: who made it, when, why, and for whom?
  3. 15 minPhotographs can mislead too: who chose where to point the camera? What is outside the frame? Pick one photo and write what it cannot tell you.
  4. 5 minExit card: which source was most useful, and why?

Session 2 · TRACE: Accounts

Two accounts of the Dawn Raids

  1. 10 minTalanoa means talking together and sharing stories. NZ History has recorded talanoa from people who lived through the Dawn Raids.
  2. 20 minRead one talanoa extract and one official statement from 1974 about overstayers. Highlight facts in one colour and feelings or judgements in another.
  3. 15 minCorroborate: use the NZ History timeline to check two details. Where do the sources agree? Where do they disagree, and why might that be?
  4. 5 minWrite one question you would ask the person in the talanoa if you could meet them.

Getting started

Use the source-detective card: Who made it? When? Why? What can it tell us? What can't it tell us?

Stretch

Find a newspaper photo of the Little Rock Nine on DigitalNZ or in the Library of Congress. How did New Zealand newspapers report it at the time?

Checkpoint

Each student can explain one strength and one limit of a photograph and of an oral history.

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