• recognise the different perspectives of individuals, groups, events and issues, with some guidance;
• identify the meaning, purpose and context of simple historical sources in order to draw basic conclusions about their usefulness for the purposes of a specific historical inquiry;
• use knowledge and understanding to retell, describe, explain, argue, challenge and discuss clearly and coherently.

• library or appropriate history texts
• worksheet (Attachment 1)

1. In library (or using available history text in bookroom), students complete Myall Creek Worksheet (Attachment 1).
2. Class discussion on research project: ? What was the most reliable source of information? ? What other interesting facts did you discover?
3. Class is divided into groups.
4. Groups discuss their interpretation of the events pertaining to the Myall Creek Massacre.
5. Students prepare notes in preparation for next lesson.

www.ipaustralia.gov.au
www.copyright.org.au

National Library of Australia: The Avengers, tinted lithograph by ST Gill from Rambles at the Antipodes (Edward Wilson, London 1859)

R Therry, Reminiscences of Thirty Years Residence in NSW and Victoria (London 1863)

B W Harrison, The Myall Creek Massacre and Its Significance in the Controversy over the Aborigines During Australia’s Early Squatting Period (BA Hons Thesis University of New England 1966)

• Mock trial.
• View: “The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith”.