At the start of this term in our French unit, we dove straight into learning about homelessness and the terminology that comes with it in french. We were also required to complete posters, work in groups and sit tests on this topic to help us learn more. At the start of this topic, I knew little to nothing about homelessness and french, and how to express myself using french. I already had a limited understanding already on homelessness and the facts about it, so starting this new topic seemed like a daunting task. However, towards the end of this unit and where I am now, I feel so much more confident expressing myself in french regarding this topic.
We started our unit by learning terms such as a house, rooms of the house, garden, suburb and furniture all in french. Learning these words helped a lot later on as once I was able to understand the basics, I just had to link these words with verbs to make cohesive sentences.
However, towards the middle-end of our unit, we completed many group projects. In particular, we recently completed a group project in collaboration with the salvation army. In this collaboration, we were asked to join groups and make a poster addressing one of the many doors and pathways the salvation army gives to homeless people/troubled people. My group consisted of myself, Matthew, Sam and Amrit and we chose to Graceville as our door/pathway.
Graceville was a program that runs to support kids and children experiencing abuse and violence in their households. We were asked how we could amplify and help this program and add any ideas. Towards that start of our unit, we came up with a lot of ideas. Most of these ideas were very outlandish and almost impossible to achieve considering our position in society and our financial status. At the end we finally came up with ideas that we could implement to help homeless people that was in our capabilities.
Our main idea was giving gift boxes, containing toys and games to these kids without a true home. We decided on this idea as we all have leftover toys and games in our house that we currently don’t use anymore. We also chose this idea as it is very achievable and all in our capability.
Now, we decided that we would involve our very own All Saints’ College junior school, and make them submit their own toys. The class with the most toys submitted would win a prize from us in the form of Chocolate.
We hope to make a change and impact on these kids.