ED1231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Fremantle Prison, Critical Thinking, Irish Travellers
The Catalpa
Joy and Mike Lefroy
Book
- Begun in 2002
- Released in 2006
Contact
- Museums without walls
o www.mikelefroy.com
- Both have been teachers and worked in a museum
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
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