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Thursday, April 30, 2020

pages 17-18


Page 17 and 18
  1. Read the page by yourself
  2. Discuss with the group any words, concepts or phrases you don’t understand and record the meanings
  3. in your own words
New words: 
    • English word
    • Meaning
    • Maori word
    • Meaning

  • Pakeha


  • Warily


  • Intently


  • contingent





  • Colonial






  • confiscation

  • Europeans 


  • Un trustworthy


  • Interested


  • A group of people sharing values/actions


  •  Something related to a colony




  • To take something away 

  • Pakeha


  • Whare


  • Whaea


  • Tipuna


  • Iwi



  • Korowai


    • Europeans



    • House



    • Respected adult female



    • Ancestor



    • Tribe



    • Cloak made of bird feathers

  • Your summaries:
Mariah:During september 19th 1914 there lived a man named Tipu. Tipu was a Rugby player he really liked playing rugby he even had a nickname called Big George. He wanted to go to war with the Germans but he was too young to go to war.

Comprehension.
  1. What is meant by “a native contingent” 
A group of Moari people

  1. How are the two boys feeling about signing up to fight? Provide direct quotes as evidence.
    • Tipu - confident 
    • Rongo - Unsure
  1. Explain in your own words - “Tipu listens as she reminds Rongo of the land
  2. confiscation in the Waikato during the 1860s, of the lives lost trying to
  3. defend that land in the colonial wars.
There was a war about who gets the land. The Maori people were fighting to
protect their land and pakeha. 
Railey - There was a war about who gets the land  or not . and it was between
maori and british.
Eh Htoo - There was a land war about who got the land Maori tried to defend their
land for pakeha then they had a war.
There was war for the Maori peoples land.
There was a big war between Maroi and the British it was called the land wars it
started when the British tried to get land off the Maroi 
  1. Write about the Maori Contingent in your own words (where did they come
  2. from, how many people, where did they go to fight etc).  


    •  The first contingent sailed from Wellington in February 1915.
    • There was about 500 men that left Wellington on the 14 of February
    • 1915. By 1916 the battalion was in desprte 

    • The first contingent sailed from Wellington aboard the ship warrimoo
    • in february 1915. Its motto was ‘Te Hokowhitu a Tu (the seventy
    • twice-told warriors of the war god). Some moari had been in
    • gallipoli from the beginning, having enlisted in the provincial
    • infantry battalions.   

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