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Define these words

• Chinking 

(Cause a light to make a high-pitched ringing sound, as of glasses or coins striking together)

• Upriver 

(situated or occurring at a point nearer the source of a river. they headed for the upriver side.)

• Ponga

(A tree fern found in forests throughout New Zealand)

• Sentry 

(Sentry Is like a guard who stands there)

• Pouwhenua

(A Pouwhenua is a weapon they use to guard the camp)

• Fatigues and masks

• (Fatigues and masks are suits that army people wear)

• Staffs

(A staff is a stick, pole, or rod for aid in walking or climbing, for use as a weapon)

• Bivouacs

(Bivouacs Is a tent you make by hand)

• Solar lights

• (Solar lights are lights that gets powered by the sun)

• Glow worms 

(A glow worm is an insect that glows in the dark)

• “Home in on us”

• (“Home in on us” is when someone is focus on the people)

• Searing blow 

           (Searing blow is like a powerful hit)

• Remote

        (A remote is something that is far away)

• What was mum's old job?  

        (Mum’s old job was being a Teacher)

• Why is the camp called ‘camp radicals’?  

         (Their radicals because their fighting back)

• What is the tikanga about carving pou? 

•  (You have to earn the right to use the master carvers tools)

• On page 42, why did Tre smile to himself?

(He saw the pou and relised it was his dad’s carving)

• What was the purpose of the pouwhenua?

(The purpose of the pouwhenua is to alarm them that people are there cause they put cameras on it)

• How could you describe where Tre put his bag down?

(Tre put his bag down in a long tent where everyone slept) 

• What were the people in the village doing BEFORE Tre and Muse’ arrival? And now?

(A girl was making a cup, the kids were reading, Others where carving)

• Who carved the pou?

(Phyn carved the pou)

• Why did Tre only murmur “nice one” to Phyn? (Rather than hugging him/celerbating/etc).

(Because the carving belonged to Phyn)

• Why was Muse leaving in the middle of the night? 

(She was leaving because she had a tracker in her arm and she regrets trying to make the voids capture tre and his family)

• What was on Muse’s arm? 

(Muse had a tracker on her arm)

• Who is Phyn in relation to the other characters?

(Tre’s brother phyn)

• Why did Phyn hit Tre and with what?

(Tre swung his twerlled his staff/taiha because their traitors)

• Who will now follow in dad's footsteps?

(Tre because he's leaving and he treated his family)

• Was it the Phyn was silent written in italics like that?

(Because he was angry)

• What was their plan after leaving the camp?

(To keep moving until the tracker dies out)

• If you were Tre, what would you do in this situation? 

(I would go with muse to make sure she is safe while she's in the wild)