Development of Australian Culture

Development of Australian Culture

Grade 9 - Making a Nation
History

Apply Knowledge learnt through questions.

​Success Criteria

Students will identify and explain the developments in Australian Culture.

Lesson Focus

Expectations

Word Cloud

What is Culture?

Multiple Choice

In the 19th century, Australians began to show their growing national identity through art and literature. Appreciation grew for new styles that were distinctly ...................................

• Australian

• Chinese

• Afghan

• Japa

Multiple Choice

In the early 19th century, painters tended to see the Australian landscape through .............................. eyes.

• Asian
• European
• African
• American

Multiple Choice

It was not until the .................. and 1880s that artists began to show the Australian landscape and people as they really were.

• 1870s
• 1900s
• 1700s
• 1850s

Multiple Choice

Paintings completed in the early 1800s, often showed people as small ........................ being overpowered by the landscape.

• ore

• figures

• sticks

• pebbles

Multiple Choice

By contrast, paintings from the 1880s and 1890s showed people that looked ‘at home’. Instead of looking threatened by their environment, they appeared relaxed and at peace. By this time, the beach was increasingly becoming a part of the ...................................... way of life.

• chaotic
• peaceful

• Australian

• dangerous

Poll

A new body of literature also reflected more Australian themes and subjects. Like artists and painters, early 19th-century writers had tended to portray Australia as an alien and threatening place. By the 1880s and 1890s however, poets and storytellers were writing positively about Australia.

• True

• Partly True

Multiple Choice

Despite the rise in distinctly Australian forms of art and literature towards the end of the 19th century, paintings and stories that reflected British themes and styles were still ...............................

• uncommon
• popular

• extinct
• obsolete

Multiple Choice

Around the same time, depictions of ....................... flora and fauna were increasingly being used to promote food products and as decorations on buildings and in stained glass.

• Australian flora and fauna
• Asian flora and fauna
• European flora and fauna
• African flora and fauna

Fill in the Blanks

Multiple Choice

Many companies still use Australian flora and fauna in their logos today. One of the best known examples of these is Qantas, whose white ................................ on a red background (known as the ‘flying .....................................’) is recognised around the world.

• platypus
• emu
• koala
• kangaroo

Brain Wrap - Discussion

How do you think you went?
Did you know that art and literature helped to form Australian identity?
Did you know that art was used to document the new colony?