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hand has the person’s name, a design of their own on the hand
and a statement of commitment to justice attached.)
• Adding a hand Take learners through the process of adding a hand,
but do not ask them to do so, unless they want to. Use handout 17
to guide the process.
Part c: Extension activity. Reading the commitment to justice statement
The site is accessible to a wide range of readers: it is a highly interactive
site with great appeal. Inconsistent with this, however, is the inclusion
of a justice statement which requires reading skills at a level which
would exclude many readers at ACSF 2 and 3. Learners may be able to
get the gist of the meaning of the justice statement, but the reading of
it would need to be highly supported.
Reading this statement and discussing it with learners would be a good
way of encouraging them to think about the relationship between
writing, audience and purpose.
Ask learners to pause at this statement and read it aloud to them. As a
group, then discuss:
• ‘What do you think about the language used in the statement?’
• ‘What does the statement basically mean?’
• ‘Who should be the reading audience for the Sea of Hands?’ ‘Is the
statement written for everyone?’
• ‘Is there a simpler way of getting the commitment to justice
message across?’
• ‘What could be written there instead?’
Part d: Email about the Sea of Hands
• Support learners in writing an email/memo to either:
––Tell a friend about the Sea of Hands explaining how to get to
the site, and how to add their name. The notes learners took
for the reading exercise in handout 16 and handout 17 could
be used to support their writing. Appropriate opening and
closing comments and greetings for emails and memos could
be discussed and put on whiteboard as a reference.
––Send an email to ANTAR giving them feedback about the
Sea of Hands site – ‘What is good about it?’ ‘How could it
be improved?’ This could be done as a group activity, with
teacher modeling writing processes and writing ideas on
the whiteboard, (things people like about the site, things