Reading

Link to text - http://instructionalseries.tki.org.nz/content/download/27598/292327/file/L4%20June%202
014%20King%20and%20Country.pdf

Page 20 and 21

1. Read the page by yourself
2. Discuss with the group any words, concepts or phrases you don’t understand and record the
3. meanings in your own words

New words: 

English 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

Your summaries:

Eve: The 8th of September 1916 tipu and all of the other recruits made their was spedilly to a trench witch was called turk lane.

Hope: On 8 September 1916 Tipu and the other recruits hastily made their way through the deep turk lane. I
t is being built by the pioneer battalion, behind the front line in France, where they are supposedly safe. One
of the soldiers asked if Tipu was okay and he said ¨Yes iḿ fine” but actually he wasn't okay. 

Eh Htoo: In 8 September 1916 Tipu was a new recruit walking throw the turk lane with the new recruits then Tuip

saw his brother they hugged then Tuip got a shovel and diged lot of people.     

Davlyn: the 8th of september Tipu and all the other new recruits speedily went down there trench which was
called the turk lane. 

Maria: On the 8th September 1916 Tipu and his Recruits were on their way to what they call it the Turk lane. 

Mariah:On the 8th of september Tipu was finally 20 after was birthday 

Miss Ashley: Tipu finally got to be in the war after he turned 20, so he went to the Western Front where the
Pioneer Battalion was. He was reunited with his brother Rongo at long last, but was overwhelmed by the
conditions in the trenches - dead bodies, the smells, injured soldiers and chaos. 


hugged each other, Tipu kept his arms around Rongo tight. “How is everyone at home?'' asks Rongo. 

Comprehension.

Extra sources: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/maori-in-first-world-war/on-the-western-front

1. How long has passed since we last read about Tipu and Rongo? What has happened since then?
2. Where are the two boys now, and how is each one feeling?
1. 3 August 1915 - 8 September 1916 - 14 months had passed. 
2. Tipu - his birthday  (20th), went to Egypt for training then was sent to France
3. Rongo - sent to France. 
3. 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.

3. Who was the Pioneer Battalion? Soldiers from New Zealand. Their job was to go ahead of the army,
4. and make a trench.
5. Describe how Tipu is feeling (refer to paragraph 3 on page 20).

Shocked because of the smell and the people that had passed.

5. What does this envision? “strung along the trench like men in a waka.Team work makes the
6. dream work.

”the Pioneers toilet paper with pick and spade,”