GROUP ACTIVITY WORKSHEET - Activity 7. Our Untold Stories: The Chinese Community in Gloucestershire

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7. Lifeline Graph

(a) The next activity will involve a lifeline graph. This involves empathy and trying to analyse emotions, motives, reactions, attitudes, values and beliefs. It will also lead to self-analysis.

(b) You will study the life of Kum Ming Yeung (p27-31) and then the alphabet statements about his life (a-z) below. You will then produce a lifeline graph about his life.

(c) You will do this by using the statements to plot these points on a scale of positive to negative emotion (happiness to sadness). These points can then be joined to trace a scale of emotion over time. You will need to study the statements and cross-refer to the book.

(d) At the end of the exercise students can share their results, discuss their different interpretations and reasoning and analyse their own (culturally loaded?) value judgements.

5   4   3   2   1   0 -1   -2   -3   -4   -5       time

(e) Remember to enter the events to scale on the axis. You can use a key rather than label all the different events. Here are the events:

The Alphabet of Ming’s Life

A= Born 1949, Hong Kong. Father: 2 wives; 10 children.
B= 1950’s At home- no school.
C= 1959 Started school from the age of 10.
D= 1960’s Left primary school. No secondary education.
E= 1965 Left farming for the city of Kowloon and a job in a café.
F= 1965-1970 Café job: long hours, ½ a day off a month. But free accommodation and meals. Saved money.
G=1970 Came to Weston-Super-Mare to join his brother.
H=1970 started working in brothers’ restaurant 6 days a week.
I= Spoke and read little English.
J= Joined college to learn= but too tired to concentrate.
K= 1972 Ming’s mum joined them.
L= 1971 Passed driving test.
M= 1974 Returned to Hong Kong and married Wai Song
N= Came back to Britain and worked for brother.
O= 1978 Set up own catery business in London Road, Gloucester.
P= 1974-78 4 daughters, born in Weston.
Q= Birth of Simon.
R= 1978 150- 200 Chinese people in Gloucester.
S= 1980’s meetings in BHS restaurant.
T= 1989 Chinese community Association formed and Ming was involved.
U= 2003 Jenny’s achievements.
V=2001 Attitude to British Educational system.
W= 2002 Attitude to British interview system.
X= 2003 3,000 Chinese people in Gloucester.
Y= Feelings about prejudice 1960.
Z= Feelings about prejudice 2003.