A Dog For Life - Resources
THE FAMILY
When the little chavvies gets up, they take the grails down the pani... then we all have bread and kel and a piece of stinger... Some of the old raklis dodikins to the gorgios. They go out with the jukells shushing and a lot of muskros are in the pov. - Zilla Roberts, (quoted by John Ezard, (1976) Gypsy children write of life on the road, The Guardian September 27, 1976)
When the kiddies get up, they water the horses, then everyone has bread and cheese and a little bit of onion. Some of the old ladies tell people's fortunes. They go rabbiting with the dogs and a lot of policemen are in the field."
If people were all the same...it would be pretty boring, wouldn't it?!
The family groups which appear in A Dog For Life are varied and provide lots of material for tutor group work, citizenship and English and Drama lessons.
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http://www.lsmatthewsonline.co.uk/Dog For Life Resources.doc
More ideas and resources will be added - keep checking back for new ones - and as usual, please send in your own resources you have developed and used successfully, and I'll include them.
ANIMALS
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." - Gandhi
Ideas For Teachers - Traveller Links
Try this for literacy hour resources:
http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/subjects/literacy/traveller/
And for young traveller's views:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/voices/youth.shtml
This excellent page from the Commission for Racial Equality will answer many of your students questions and tackle prejudice with statistics. Ideal for providing factual basics for students attempting an argumentative or persuasive essay: