BRAINSTORM - Brainstorm what the word “home” means to you. Write a list of words or draw images to represent what home means to them. Your teacher will ask you to share your words/images with a partner and to discuss the difference between a “house” and a “home”.
Whilst brainstorming, listen to this song: https://safeshare.tv/x/smZN_rO3j4I (Home by Michael Buble)
SMALL GROUP WORK - Your teacher will combine pairs of students in your class into groups of four and ask your group to discuss the following question - "Is having a home is more than just having a roof over your head? " Document your thoughts!
VENN DIAGRAM - Your teacher will provide you with some A3 paper and you are to draw a Venn diagram with three circles overlapping. Write one of the following terms in each circle:
Home
Shelter
House.
In the areas that overlap write those words that are common for each term, in those areas that do not overlap write those terms that are different for each term.
DISCUSS - Share the your group responses of your Venn Diagram with the rest of the class.
Discussion Questions:
Is Homelessness more than just being houseless? Discuss.
When you explained in your group what home meant to you, what did you feel?
Have you ever stopped to think about what 'home' means to you? Why/Why not?
Activity 2: Homelessness, not just HOUSElessness?
Read the following information:
Homelessness does not just mean sleeping rough on the streets. There are three different types of homelessness that are used by the Australian Bureau of Statistics and these are considered the standard cultural de nition of homelessness in Australia.
PRIMARY HOMELESSNESS includes all people without a ‘roof over their head’. This means people who are living on the streets, sleeping in parks, squatting in derelict buildings or using cars or trains as temporary shelter.
SECONDARY HOMELESSNESSincludes people who frequently move from one type of shelter to another. This includes people living in homeless services, hostels, people staying with other households who have no home of their own and people staying in boarding houses for 12 weeks or less.
TERTIARY HOMELESSNESSrefers to people who live in boarding houses on a medium to long term basis (more than 13 weeks), who live in accommodation that does not have ‘self-contained facilities’ for example they do not have their bathroom or kitchen and who don’t have the security provided by a lease. They are homeless because their accommodation does not have the characteristics identified in the minimum community standard for housing.
Source:
Chamberlain and MacKenzie 2008 Counting the Homeless Report 2006, ABS, accessed from: www.youthhomelessnessmatters.net
DISCUSS:
Watch the below clip.
Have you ever have heard of the term “couch-surfing”?