Download Teachers Booklet - ACT Museums and Galleries
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Vocabulary: Create a class glossary of unfamiliar words the students might<br />
encounter on the program, such as; artefact, oral history, museum, collection,<br />
scrapbook, collage.<br />
Location: Use a map of Canberra showing Calthorpes’ House. Locate points of<br />
interest to help the students underst<strong>and</strong> how to read the map. Show them where<br />
to read the suburb <strong>and</strong> street name. If the school is local to Canberra; find the<br />
school, Lake Burley Griffin, <strong>and</strong> the streets of some of the children in the class.<br />
Point out the proximity of Calthorpes’ House to Parliament House, Civic, etc.<br />
Compare the map to a historical map of Canberra. Appropriate maps <strong>and</strong><br />
l<strong>and</strong>scape views are avaliable at the following link,<br />
http://www.idealcity.org.au/competition‐2‐information_materials.html, these<br />
digitised images were sent to entrants of the Canberra design competion in 1911.<br />
When comparing the old <strong>and</strong> new maps, discuss what has changed. Alternatively,<br />
to answer this question, describe changes in the l<strong>and</strong>scape by comparing a recent<br />
photograph of Canberra to photographs taken in the past. After looking at the<br />
various maps <strong>and</strong> photographs, student could talk about what they think they will<br />
you see during their journey to Calthorpes’ House.<br />
House rules: Mrs Calthorpe had at least 21 rules in her new house at 24 Mugga<br />
Way, <strong>and</strong> those rules were:<br />
No slamming doors<br />
No muddy feet<br />
No running in the house<br />
No fingers on the walls<br />
No feet on the chairs<br />
No rings around the bath<br />
No clothes on the floor<br />
No blowflies<br />
No smoking fires<br />
No empty wood boxes<br />
No splatters of boot polish<br />
No music or rolls left on the pianola<br />
No gramophone records left on the floor<br />
No chair arms to be used as pincushions<br />
No socks or picnic rugs with grass seeds<br />
No cobwebs<br />
No washing on the line on Sunday<br />
No dirty fingernails<br />
No ugly words<br />
No singing at the table<br />
No cabbage or cauliflower water to be poured down the kitchen sink<br />
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