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Convicts and Settlers
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Convicts and Settlers
🏛️ Part 1: Who Were They?
1. What was a convict?
A person sent to Australia as punishment
A person who chose to come to Australia
A person born in Australia
2. What was a settler?
Someone who was forced to come to Australia
Someone who chose to come and live in Australia
Someone who visited Australia for holidays
3. Circle the pictures that show convicts:
(Look for people in chains, working as punishment, or wearing prison clothes)
4. Tick the things that convicts had to do:
Build roads
Choose their own jobs
Work without pay
Go home whenever they wanted
🏠 Part 2: Daily Life of Settlers
5. What did settlers eat?
Bread and meat
Pizza and chips
Vegetables they grew
Fish from rivers
6. Where did settlers live?
In tents and simple huts
In big modern houses
In hotels
7. Fill in the blanks about settler work:
Settlers had to ________ their own food and ________ their own houses. They worked very ________ every day.
8. Draw one thing that shows how settlers lived:
(You could draw their food, house, work, or clothes)
🤔 Part 3: Think About It
9. How was life different for convicts and settlers?
10. What was the hardest thing about living in early Australia?
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