ED2627 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Fremantle Prison, Critical Thinking, Secondary Source
The Catalpa
Joy and Mike
Book
- Begun in 2002
- Released in 2006
2 Exam Questions on this text
Local stories
- Power of local stories in teaching
Catalpa Story
- Happens around the university
o Street signs
o Names of parks
o Local history
o Students will be much more interested to know something happened in a street
they can walk down
Texts by Joy and Mike
- The Pipeline CY O’Connor Built
- HMAS Sydney: The mystery of Australia’s greatest naval disaster
- The trees that went to sea
- There’s a ship outside my window
- Endeavour
- Captain cook and the Endeavour
- Shipwreck at Madman’s corner
The Catalpa Escape
- Escape of the Athenians
- Tell historical stories at the tip of the iceberg
- 32 pages
- 500 words
- 6 Fenian men
Ireland 1840
- 1845
o Farmers dug up potato crop, 9 million tonnes were ruined
o Lead to 1 million deaths, and 1 million emigrated
o Irish spread around the world
o No food for their families or trading
o Most of their properties were owned by land owners
▪ Didn’t know their tenants
▪ Got kicked out because they didn’t pay rent
o Fenians → An ancient name for an Irish warrior
▪ Wanted the English out of Ireland
▪ Fremantle had petitioned the government in 1850 to get the convicts to
work
- 1850-1868
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Document Summary
Happens around the university: street signs, names of parks, local history, students will be much more interested to know something happened in a street they can walk down. Hmas sydney: the mystery of australia"s greatest naval disaster. Tell historical stories at the tip of the iceberg. 1845: farmers dug up potato crop, 9 million tonnes were ruined, lead to 1 million deaths, and 1 million emigrated, no food for their families or trading, most of their properties were owned by land owners. Freemantle": mark"s great great grandfather"s cousin, visited australia, superintendent of the president, original letter, to his brother, prisoners were carried off by an american vessel called. Famous fenians: john boyle o"reilly, john j. breslin. Page with the american flag: song, telling history through song and music, originally police put out a law for anyone listening or singing to song, they were throw in jail.
