Reading
Link to text - http://instructionalseries. tki.org.nz/content/download/27598/292327/file/L4%20June%20 2014%20King%20and%20Country.pdf
Page 20 and 21
Read the page by yourself
Discuss with the group an words, concepts or phrases you don’t understand and record the meanings in your own words
New words:
English word
Meaning
Maori word
Meaning
Artillery
Recruit
Lieutenant
Pioneer
Shelling
Battalion
Debri
Embrace
Hastily
Assurance
Mound
Despite
Crater
Guns,bombs,
New team member
Boss of the group of soldiers
First person to go to a new place
Shelling means constant bombardment by guns, tanks, artillery
A large group of soldiers
Stuff
Hug
moving or acting quickly
Confirming
Pile of dirt
although
A hole in the ground
Whaea
Respected adult female
Comprehension.
Extra sources: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/maori-in-first-world-war/on-the-western-front
How long has passed since we last read about Tipu and Rongo? What has happened since then? Where are the two boys now, and how is each one feeling?
3 August 1915 - 8 September 1916 - 14 months had passed.
Tipu - his birthday (20th), went to Egypt for training then was sent to France
Rongo - sent to France.
What is ‘turk lane’? Explain. It was built, provide pictures to help explain.
It's a 8 kilometer trench made in France and made by the pioneers battalion New Zealand soldiers. The trench was finished at midnightc 16 September. Heaps of people had to die, and were prepared because they had to dig while getting shot at.
Who was the Pioneer Battalion? Soldiers from New Zealand. Their job was to go ahead of the army, and make a trench.
Describe how Tipu is feeling (refer to paragraph 3 on page 20).
Shocked because of the smell and the people that had passed.
What does this envision? “strung along the trench like men in a waka.Team work makes the dream work.
”the Pioneers toilet paper with pick and spade,”
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