Becoming Kirrali Lewis
by Jane Harrison
Description
| Kirrali is seventeen and embarking on a Law Degree at a prestigious University. She is Aboriginal but was adopted into a white family and has a great experience in her family. She has no desire to seek out her birth mother. At university she begins to meet other Aboriginal people who have had vastly different experiences to her and starts to become more interested in finding her birth mother. Impulsively she confronts a woman who is her birth mother – but it is not what she is expecting – her mother is white - and the relationship is strained and difficult. The middle section of the book segues to her mother’s perspective. She eventually gets to meet her birth father (we go back to Kirrali’s POV) before he succumbs to heart failure. Along the way Kirrali negotiates living away from home, making new friends, working part time for a racist boss and embarking on a relationship with an Aboriginal young man. Topics:
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Details
Audience
Year 9 & 10 Secondary Students
Duration
50 - 60 minutes including question time
Requirements
Data Projector with ability to plug in a USB