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Activity D: Life in Our Area
Charles Conder
Windy Day at Brighton
c.1904-05
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- Have a class discussion and ask the students to give their impressions of what life is like in your town. What differing impressions do they have? What do they think life in your area might be like for the other people who live in your town? Do they think that it is the same or different to what they have experienced?
- If your class wanted to get someone's impressions of what life is like in your area, what questions would they ask? Write down as many questions as possible. Together, choose what you think are the five most important questions to ask.
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- Now arrange to interview different people who live in your town to get their impressions of what it's like to live there. You can do this in various ways: you can arrange for people (local businesspeople, politicians, community workers, etc) to come in and be interviewed by your class. You can have each student interview three people they know (friends, parents, grandparents) who live in your area, and have them report back to the class.
- When you have gathered enough material from interviews, ask the class to work together to write up the impressions they have gathered from what people have said. What is the general consensus? What do people think about living in your area? Send the document to your partner class and arrange for them to do the same.
- What have people said about living in your partner class's region?
Tip: If your school has a video camera or an audio recording device, you could consider taping the interview(s).
Tip: If you are studying history, then it might be useful to choose a time period (like the 1960s or the World War II years) and interview people you know who lived in your area during that time.
Curriculum areas: Citizenship, History
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Activity C