Guile, M, 2006, Stories From Australia’s History, Peter Lalor And The Eureka Stockade. Retrieved 16th November 2013. http://www.macmillan.com.au/mea/demoversions/MDL/Contents/SFAH_Eureka.pdf
Lesson 8
Organise your text.
Lesson Objective:
- Plan, write and edit final text.
Plan for organisation.
Text title:
The significance of Peter Lalor and the Eureka Stockade in bringing about change to colonial Australia
Plan the final text to include:
Draft Outline:
Introduction
Body
Conclusion
Text title:
The significance of Peter Lalor and the Eureka Stockade in bringing about change to colonial Australia
Plan the final text to include:
- Historical terms and facts
- A description of the role of Peter Lalor in the Eureka Stockade
- An explanation of the significance of how Colonial Australia was shaped by the changes brought about by Peter Lalor through his role in the Eureka Stockade
Draft Outline:
Introduction
- Lalor is Irish born
- Member of Ballarat Reform League: united ‘diggers’ under Southern Cross to defend rights and liberties
Body
- Frustration and anger over Miners’ Licences and taxes
- Called for volunteers from other rebels to march to the Eureka diggings and erect a Stockade to oppose government troops
- Stockade attacked by British troops and mounted police
- 5-7 troops, 22 diggers killed, many others wounded or taken prisoner
- Lalor escaped with injured arm
- Public reaction against the Governor of Victoria, Sir Charles Hotham
- After rebellion, licence hunting (checking) became non–existent
- Gold Fields Royal Commission led to reform of goldfield laws
Conclusion
- Australia’s only armed uprising
- war for greater equality for miners was won
- crucial stepping stone towards democracy for Australia
- viewed as the birthplace of Australia’s political system
- government must never again ignore the voice of popular opinion
- P.M. Menzies said: ‘The Eureka revolution was an earnest attempt at democratic government’ (100 years later)
- rebellion sowed the seeds of the White Australia Policy
Checklist for Paragrah Writing.
- Does the paragraph have a topic sentence?
- Does the topic sentence use words from the topic?
- Does the body of the paragraph contain examples?
- Do the points in the paragraph show cause and effect? For example, 'as a result’
- Does the conclusion sum up the main ideas?
- Does the paragraph contain historical terms?