Setting sail
Activity 4: Setting sail Focus question: what preparations were made for the eight-month sea voyage?
First Fleet ship Charlotte at Portsmouth prior to departure, May 1787
Assessment
First Fleet ship Charlotte at Portsmouth prior to departure, May 1787
Assessment
- Can I use effective strategies to deconstruct unfamiliar language?
- Can I suggest appropriate categories to sort First Fleet provisions?
- In POD groups use Preparations for the journey to examine a primary source document, a letter regarding provision of the First Fleet. Write down unfamiliar language. Circle unfamiliar words and use a dictionary to find their meaning.
- What do we know about this source?
What does it tell us about the First Fleet?
What questions could we ask to find out more? - Using Packing the Provisions examine the list of the livestock and provisions carried on the First Fleet.
- Using Ships of the First Fleet to explore information about the 11 ships at First Fleet Fellowship