1. Date____20.05.13____ Name:__Kira McComb______
Inquiry into:
‘Circumstances that determine an individual’s access
to opportunity’
What is circumstance? The definition is ‘an event or fact that causes or
helps to cause something to happen. ‘
What does this mean? Let’s explore by thinking about our own and
others circumstances and opportunities.
Circumstances Opportunities
Where do you live?
Hong Kong
What do your parents do for a
living?
Advertises and recruits people for
a job
What do you think your parents
beliefs are about education?
That every child should have a
good education under any
circumstances.
Access
Attending CDNIS a top
international school in Hong Kong.
IQBAL by Franceso D’ Adamo
Read chapter 3 with a partner. In this
Chapter Iqbal tells the other children
about ‘his story’, which are the
circumstances, which lead him to in the
situation he is in. What were Iqbal’s
circumstances?

2. Circumstances Opportunities
His family had little, nutritious
food. ‘A sack of broken grain and
dried chickpeas’.
Deny
What opportunities do you think Iqbal is denied? Complete the table
above.
‘Circumstances that determine an individual’s access
to opportunity’
Children all round the world have different circumstances and different
opportunities. Let’s explore some of these differences by using our
inference skills.
1. You will look at 36 different photos in a photo essay. The photos
are in pairs, one is of a child, the other is where they sleep.
http://www.demilked.com/where-children-sleep-james-mollison/
2. Choose three very different situations.

3. 3. Screenshot the both photos, and record the name of the child, age
and place.
4. For each chosen situation, use your inference skills to determine
what you think their circumstances are and what possible
opportunities they have.
5. Present your chosen format.