Brave New Clan - People - Family and Community

This lesson is based on the film Who We Are: Brave New Clan – People. Through a range of literacy-based activities, students will explore the importance of family and community for the hosts and themselves. They explore the concept of kinship and how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander kinship can differ from their own understanding of family. Students then create a family portrait that communicates their own experiences of family to the class.

Essential questions:

• How important is family to the hosts in the film?
• What is kinship?
• How can Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander kinship differ from non-Indigenous understandings of family?