We Love the Future of Our Kids

This unit of work prepares students for the new Level 1 NCEA Drama devising assessment - 1.2 Participate in creative strategies to devise a drama. It is written to take a whole term and could be adapted to a shorter time frame and to the needs and interests of your ākonga. The context of this resource is nuclear activity in the Pacific, with a focus on the Marshall Islands.

The context of this resource is nuclear activity in the Pacific, with a focus on the Marshall Islands.

The activities are sequenced from personal starting points to specific historical events to universal understandings within the broad context of the impact of colonialism in the Pacific.

The Biggest Idea: We, the people of the Pacific, have been victimised too long by colonial, political and military domination… Our environment continues to be despoiled by foreign powers developing nuclear weapons for a strategy of warfare that has no winners, no liberators and imperils the survival of humanity.

 – From the Preamble to the People’s Charter for a Nuclear-free and Independent Pacific – Port Vila 1983

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Created by Hilari Anderson