• design an art work about the plight of children, AND
• create a puppet play, song, commercial or pantomime about

one Right of the Child (Number 6 - eg. Stolen Generation). You will then use the information you have gathered to share ideas with members from the other class teams.

First of all, your team must have one of the following roles:

Writer - your job is to create the script for the puppet play; or, the theme for the song; or the words for the commercial or pantomime.

Designer - your job is to create the backdrop for the puppet play; or, commercial or pantomime. If your group decides to create a song, you need to design the CD cover for it.

Performers - your job is to covert the script into a creative piece of work!

Ideas Contributor/Director – you need to be creative and think of ideas and direct the performance.

Compare your ideas of what the Rights of the Child mean with those of the other members of your group.

Then you must go to the The United Nations' Rights of the Child page and
investigate Number 6. Read it as a group, discuss what it means
and rewrite it in your own words (you will need to have a
dictionary handy or use the online dictionary and encyclopaedia).

Use the internet resources below to identify examples of where your "Right of the Child" are being violated and add these to your performance. These resources are written for adults and may be challenging to read so use the online dictionary and encyclopaedia.

Uncover how and why your Rights of the Child was violated and who are/were the victims:

Resources

Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice: The Stolen Generation story in Australia. Go to Personal stories and read Jennifer and Paul's stories.

John Williams-Mozley's Address to the ACT Legislative Assembly, 1997 (from the ABC's Frontier Online web site)

Stolen Generations. Scars begin to heal at Moola Bulla

The Stolen Children: Their Stories

Of White Lies and Stolen Lives - Archie Roach's story

Overseas
Amerigo - A Street Child

Find an example of where your Right of the Child is being protected or people are doing something positive about this Right. 

Resources

Paul Keating, PM, address at Redfern for the Australian Launch of the International Year for the World's Indigenous People, 1993

Investigate this Right of the Child amongst your class.

Uncover where and how it is happening.

Return to Plan of Attack to continue your mission.

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