Rebellion at Eureka by Alan Tucker
- What is the story about? Where is it set? What time period is it set in?
Rebellion at Eureka is based in August, 1854 where the main character Alf has just finished school. At the age of 13, his mother, Elizabeth uproots his life and chooses to make a living by becoming a storekeeper in Ballarat. Alf’s new job is now delivering supplies to people far way from the shop. Though Alf has trouble gaining independence from Elizabeth, he has still been able to make friends like Peter Lalor, Paddy and Seamus O’ Callaghan and a pregnant Mary, husband of Seamus. The setting is in regional Victoria.
- How were people treated on the goldfields?
There was a lot of conflict and many arguments between the miners and authorities on the goldfields. Miners disagreed over mining licence fees and policing. Ways authorities treated miners were invading miners to enforce licensing laws, not giving miners a say, arresting them for no reason, constant fights and enforcing charges. Miners treated authorities by stoning them, refusing to co-operate and eventually burning their licences.
- Describe the Eureka Stockade from Alf’s perspective. How did life in Victoria change as a result of this event?
After burning their licences and swearing allegiance to each other and the Southern Cross flag, the miners built a stockade to help protect them from the fight with authorities. Lots of Californian miners were experienced with weapons and were a big help for the fight. Some people had guns but not all. Many miners along with Paddy had to make pikes to jab at redcoats for the battle. The Colony of Victoria had just ordered soldiers in from Melbourne to help with the battle.
At 4:00 am, I rose from gun shots. The battle had started. Redcoats started running down the hill. Peter Lalor had yelled for everyone involved in the fight to take position. The cries of pain were everywhere as the redcoats jabbed their lances into innocent miners. Blood seemed to be everywhere you looked, staining the grass red. It seemed the inexperienced miners were no chance for the heavy armed authorities. With the brutal circumstances, I was forced to help injured miners by hiding them behind tents so redcoats and police officers don’t see them and could seek medical assistance as soon as the battle ended. Though when I returned from arguing with my mum about my safety, all of the injured miners had been wounded again by redcoats. Mary was about to deliver a baby in the middle of the battle when many people needed doctors. Elizabeth was forced to deliver the baby as a result with no medical intervention.
We tried to dress wounded miners up like woman as authorities were allowing kids and woman to leave the Eureka Diggings. As doctors were already out of the battlefield, we sneaked the miners through to them.
As a result of the Eureka Stockade, many people felt sorry for the crushed miners and put pressure on the government to change. Three years later, all men were granted with the opportunity to participate in voting.
- What positive learner attributes did people have to show on the goldfields? Share some examples from the story.
In the book, many people showed the attribute of courage. Though I found that Alf and the miners showed what courage really meant. Alf showed courage when he risked his life to help protect injured miners from the battle. He showed courage with positivity and knew the circumstances.
Miners also showed the PLA of collaboration. They demonstrated this whilst under enormous fire by the authorities. They planned out their plan carefully and chose where each miners would reside. The miners had to collaborate with each other otherwise more of them could have been injured or killed.
Click here to access a video about The Eureka Stockade or visit this screen recording about a Kahoot I created.
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Sharapova’s journey is. From the black clay courts in Sochi to the luxurious Wimbledon grass courts, her journey is really one like no other. I would recommend this book for adults.
forward to including hiking, Giant Swing, bike riding, team sports, movie nights, animal wildlife and scavenger hunts. It is also a very enjoyable experience because you get to have fun with friends as well as just enjoy the camp for what it offers.
A.P.S. The sports include of swimming, athletics and cross country. For athletics and swimming, you first have to compete against others from your year level. If you win, you will have a chance to represent your school at the A.P.S division carnival. For cross country, if you come in the top 10 or so, you automatically get into division.
transforming it into a script to act out. As part of the Nativity, I acted Gabriel out. We all had to learn our lines in a week and practise them as well as dress in our character clothes.
and what I have to do to add expression and make the play more realistic. Lots of the times, I would forget my lines and have to refer to making up my lines or just a long pause of awkward silence before I remembered.
a small group. Our experiment was testing the density of liquid using lemonade, water, cream and olive oil. We had to get a 3L tub and fill it up with 2L of a liquid. We then put a plank of
drink LEMONADE!
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otherwise the book will sound to boring. You can’t have an information book with a title ‘Great Information on Food.’ You need to be able to hook the reader in into a book otherwise there is no point selling it.
Escher. I gave it a ten for each criteria including Visuals, Layout and Information. This book has been sold out pretty much every where I know. Our library could only get one copy! For the scores, I gave the Visuals a ten because the created a lot of depth and were amazing to see. In the book were some of the most famous visuals and illusions ever created! They included the duck and rabbit illusion when it looks like a duck but there is also a rabbit on it’s side. Another one was the old woman and the young lady illusion. These drawings are crazy.
The information in this book was glorious! Every picture the book had in it the text would explain in perfect detail about the picture, when he drew it and a whole lot more. One of my favourite pictures (the staircase illusion) it had a whole lot of information on it. It told me how the illusion was used and why he drew it.
have information organised in complete sequence. Also at the end of the book, it would have all the pictures and information on it whilst it was really organised and in sequence from first visual to last visual.
amen. Though my last name says loser, I have always cancelled it out with my keelness. I’m also the funniest person ever winning multiple awards and reviews for my books. I create my books along with one of my keelest friends Jim Smith. We’ve written lots of books in our lifetime with our most famous award the Roald Dahl Funny Prize.
One of my favourite books Jim and I have written was Barry Loser and the Case of the Crumpled Carton. It was about how Detective Loser got in trouble for something he didn’t do and has to prove himself innocent and solve friendship issues. It is also Jim’s and Barry’s favourite book.
red paper and wrote on it Diet Cherry Fronkle, Limited Edition available from Feeko’s. We all know, Barry’s signature drink is Fronkle. I then got some jeans, a yellow shirt and a yellow jumper. I also got 
money for the homeless. I raised a total of $50!!
money I tallied, the more chores I wanted to do.