Primary Unit 2: MEETING FAMILIES IN VIETNAM

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Major Themes
Culture
Students 'meet' different families, and investigate ways of life, relationships and values.

Outcomes

• describing the social organisation of a group;
• describing roles and responsibilities of members of families;
• identifying how family structures and values contribute to identity;
• analysing the ways a society maintains cohesion through family structures;
• analysing core values embedded in Vietnamese family structures.

To explore additional ideas and resources for using this unit from Vietnam - Young People, Old Country: Primary, click on the following:

Teaching Ideas | WWW Links | Annotated Bibliography

Teaching Ideas

Here are some additional teaching activities and ideas for using the resource sheets in this unit.

Resource Sheet 3 Meeting La Ba's family

• Have students cut out the figures in the illustration on Resource sheet 3, place them on a notice board, and match them with each person's name.
• Summarise the role each plays in the family, attaching key words to each person.
• Create a 'relationship map' by drawing contact lines from one person to each other. Where are the relationships strongest?
• Have students adopt the role of one family member and speak for 30 seconds to the class about 'being' that person: their name, age, role, relationship with others, etc.

Resource Sheet 9 Hoang Minh Ngoc's family
Have students draw up a timetable for the person closest to them in age and sex. Have two parallel columns. Students fill in one column for their person they have chosen from Hoang Minh Ngoc's family, and the other column for themselves and what they are doing at an equivalent time of day.

Resource Sheet 10 Families in Australia
Ask students to draw up the advice as they would give it, then as their parents would give it (based on an interview with them), then as their grandparents would give it - either from interviewing them or others of their generation, or from the students' parents memories of their parents.

Bibliography
C K (Cao Duc Ki) 1984, My Country, Artlook Books, Perth
A short book covering aspects of Vietnam's history, using sketches and Vietnamese and English text. Written by a Vietnamese refugee to Australia.

Downie, Sue 1993, Down Highway One - journeys through Vietnam and Cambodia, Allen and Unwin, Sydney
A family's journey through modern (early 1990s) Vietnam. Good stories, descriptions and musings on the meaning of their experience.

Dugan, Michael 1985, The Vietnamese, Macmillan Melbourne
A short book written for primary students.

Kalman, Bobbie 1989, The Land, People and Culture (series) Crabtree Publishing, New York
This series covers the land, culture and people of Japan, Vietnam, Canada, India, Mexico and Peru. A set of three books covers each country. Well indexed, with a glossary of activities, easy to read information, and beautiful colour photographs.

Passage To Vietnam 1996, Against All Odds, New York
With over 400 photographs of life in Vietnam today, this CD ROM provides an excellent visual record of the country. Available for Macintosh and Windows.

Peake, Cathy 1984, The Vietnamese, Hodder and Staughton, Sydney
A text for primary students.

Thomas, Ron and Stutchbury, Jan 1995, Vietnam, Macmillan Education, Melbourne
Written for primary students, a brief look at some aspects of Vietnam today.