Bomb Gone Feedback.
This has been a wonderful unit with so much information. I spent a lot of time on Operation Grapple so found I had to move a little faster through the next 3 stages to complete by the end of term. I have year 7-8 so found I needed to trawl through a lot of the sources making sure the students could grasp a clear understanding of the timeline of events especially in the political sense. I have a large majority of Pasifika students who were able to relate and put into context the visuals and discussion around the fragility of the islands and the understanding that NZ did the right thing being the voice/advocate for the Pacific.
As part of our work on Operation Grapple students drew an outline of a body for ‘Role on the Wall.’ Two colours of ink were used on the interior and exterior of the bodies---one for the young Navy sailor and the other for the retired Navy veteran. The inside of the outline expressed how the men were feeling on the inside at the two different stages of their lives. The outside expressed all the external influences creating internal feelings also for both stages of their lives. The changes could be seen between the unknown of their mission in the Pacific to the known and impact of those events throughout generations. This was then linked to RE...was Operation Grapple an example of Social Sin?