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= JOIN THE FIRST FLEET = =Become a character from the Fleet! Share their experiences!=


 * You will need to research some information about what it was like as a convict on the First Fleet:**
 * **Reason for being there**
 * **Background**
 * **Family**
 * **Clothes**
 * **Food**
 * **Health**

[|http://firstfleet.uow.edu.au/questn.html#how]
 * Use this site to get ideas of the questions you can __answer__ in your story:**

Short tales and stories: [] Convicts and British Colonies in Australia: []
 * Here are some websites to help get you thinking as if you were a convict on the First Fleet:**

http://firstfleet.uow.edu.au/s_rations.html []
 * Use these sites to start thinking about how the convicts felt about the amount of __food__ that was available**

Before you start writing your story, you need to write down all your ideas. Divide your page into 6 equal parts and write the following headings. One heading for one section:

 * 1) **What can I see?**
 * 2) **What can I hear?**
 * 3) **What can I smell?**
 * 4) **What can I taste?**
 * 5) **What can I feel?**
 * 6) **What happened?**

Here are some extra questions to help get you started
 * 1) **Why did it happen?**
 * 2) **Could I have prevented something?**
 * 3) **Why am I there?**
 * Pretend you are the character in your story. Answer the questions as if you are part of the First Fleet.
 * =====Convicts of the First Fleet weren't just from England. They were from all over the world, many of them from Ireland and other countries. When you're writing your story, think about who your character is and where they have come from and why they are there.=====

//Can you guess what type of writing we are doing? Is it a **RECOUNT** or **DESCRIPTION** or **EXPOSITION** or a **NARRATIVE?** Have a guess and see which one you think it is!//

media type="youtube" key="EMWr7cu3b5k" height="315" width="420" Only watch the first **7mins** of this video to get an idea about what life was like for the convicts

====** In our last lesson on the First Fleet next week, we are going to have a dress up day! I want you all to bring dress up clothes and become someone from the First Fleet! You can come as the character you wrote about in your story in this lesson or you can come as somebody else! We may even be able to try out some food that the convicts on the First Fleet may have had to eat! Remember you can be a captain, convict, slave, mother, father, daughter, son, child who may have committed a crime and were sent to Australia. **====