NOTES:
 Sandra school teachers campaigned to expel
her. Reinforcing social system of apartheid
 Minority of people against expulsion
 Government “more mouths than brains”
 Better jobs taken by ‘Whites’. Absolute
hierarchy in South African society
 Sandra – no awareness of race (difference)
until primary school.
 Anthony Fabian – “home is essential to one’s
sense of self worth”
 Sandra 14 when she met Petrus. Petrus 20
years older
 Sandra couldn’t be white
 Apartheid causes fundamental psychological
damage
 Principal actively campaigning against Sandra
 1 in 10 white South Africans have a black
ancestor
 Sandra – 4 racial identities
 Telling her story allowed Sandra to reclaim
her story
EXPOSITORY
 Essay reflection on the importance of ‘home’
and family and how it contributes to a
person’s sense of self
 Interview with director (Anthony Fabian)
motivations behind filming ‘Skin’ –
reclaiming, exposing . . .
 Essay on the impact of Apartheid on South
Africa’s global image
 Newspaper article (Feature Article) on the
South African authorities (government,
medical experts) and the impact they had on
Black/Coloured South Africans
 Newspaper article by South African on ‘Free
Elections’ and what it has brought to South
Africa
 Newspaper article reporting on Black
agitation in the community in South Africa
 Speech to parliament/UN outlining the
positives of multiculturalism
PERSUASIVE
 Persuasive essay – Skin colour is irrelevant
 Brothers forced into public eye – resented
Sandra.
 Letter from Abraham to South African
Government convincing them to reclassify
Sandra as white
 Speech in Parliament by S.A politician arguing
that laws that separate Blacks and Whites
should be abolished.
 Letter from Sandra to the S.A government
trying to be classified as coloured
 Essay – it is our duty as Australians to right
the wrongs of the past in regards to the
treatment of Indigenous Australians
CREATIVE
 Creative dialogue/Conversation between 2
experts on South African Social History
debating the lingering effects of apartheid
still present in South Africa
 Short story – a protagonist reflecting on the
pressures put on them by their family
 Formal apology from the principal to Sandra
on her mistreatment
 Letter from Sandra to parents explaining her
decision to leave and expanding to consider
the damaging power of stereotypes
 Narrative of a woman in ________ fighting to
protect her children and herself from an
abusive husband
 Stream of Consciousness narrative from
Abraham’s perspective on Sandra’s jailing
 Letter from Sandra mourning her father,
addressed to him apologising for her
decisions