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Then
As Now: Lost in the bush
Todd and his
wife Alice
TEACHER
NOTES
BAND:
Middle Years
LEARNING
AREA(S): English
TOPIC
/ CONCEPT: Then As Now - Lost In The Bush
TIMELINE:
1 week
SACSA
information
STUDENT
TASK:
Hardly a year goes
by even now without some people becoming lost in the Australian
outback, often with tragic consequences. Always the same warnings
are again publicised. Stay where you are, and let the searchers
find you. Light a fire if practicable. This is sound bushmanship.
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But
it's not new.
Charles Todd,
in 1870 sending parties of men to work in a strange, harsh,
unexplored land, gave explicit instructions on what a man
was to do if he became lost.
"Most
recorded cases of persons being lost in the bush show that
they lose their presence of mind and frequently wander round,
often coming back to the same place, so that their own tracks
further confuse them," he said. "The safest plan for a person
to pursue, who is lost from a party, is, as soon as he finds
that he is uncertain in which direction to go, to stop still,
as he may be sure that people will be sent to look for him".
"If he has a match, he should light a fire on the highest
place, near him and keep it blazing until found".
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QUESTIONS:
- Write a poem or a piece of prose about what it might like
to be "lost in the bush".
- Consider this scenerio -
- You
are lost in the bush.
- The
closest community/town/station is 15 hours walk away.
- You
are stranded on a road that only has a car/ute/truck come
over it three - four times a week.
- You
have minimal liquid and no food.
- It is
extremely HOT.
What are
the strategies that you would put into place to SURVIVE.
(Be creative in your presentation and structure. Share your
survival techniques with others in your class. Who do you think
would actually survive? Does it rely just on where you are stranded
and what supplies you have?)
Todd's
Cup of Tea
Charles Todd was a man who liked a good cup of tea. So it was
praise indeed when he said of his cook,
"He was a
splendid fellow, that cook of mine, never put out with trifles
such as water of the consistency of cream, with which he still
managed to brew most glorious tea." And
he went on, "His few and far between Sunday duff, out of which
every third man was rewarded with a single plum, was, like his
yarns over the camp fire, not easily forgotten". "And special
mention should be made of his rich and rare plum pudding of 16
ingredients - plums, currants, marmalade jams and I know not what
- made as a final treat when we got into what he called crystallised
society".
QUESTIONS
- How do think Todd
liked his cup of tea to be made?
- What is Todd referring
to when he says " Éhis few and far between Sunday duff, out
of which every third man was rewarded with a single plumÉ"
- What does Todd mean
when he speaks of a " crystallised society".
- Write a telegram
with a message of 20 words or less. This cost 10 pounds -
equal to 5 weeks' wages for a working person in the 1870s.
Develop a telegram for future generations which focuses on
the dreams and aspirations of telecommunication and technology
of school students in 20 words or less. Consider the language
construction that may have been used in the 1870s
Todd's
Wardrobe
Todd was a methodical man. He kept detailed diaries covering
each day's business and records of his dealings with party leaders.
And, as other things came to his mind, he often jotted them down
at the back of the diary.
One such
reminder (October 1871) is headed List of Things for Journey.
The list
is :- 4 trousers, 3 waistcoats, 4 Crimean shirts, 8 pairs drawers,
12 pair socks, 3 doz collars, 9 pocket handkerchiefs, 3 pyjamas,
5 jerseys, 1 belt, 3 alpaca coats, 3 scarves, 1 clothes brush,
1 green scarf, 2 pairs boots, 1 pair slippers, 10 towels, 3 puggarees.
QUESTIONS:
- What does a 'crimean
shirt' look like - would you recognise one if they were back
in fashion today?
- What is todays word
for "drawers"?
- What are "puggarees"?
What part of the body do you wear a puggaree?
- If you went out in
the bush today what would you wear? Why?
Created by Kate Dibben, Open
Access College, South Australia, Australia
email:
kdibben@oac.sa.edu.au
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