pages 20 and 21

Link to text - http://instructionalseries.tki.org.nz/content/download/27598/292327/file/L4%20June%202014%20King%20and%20Country.pdf




Page 20 and 21


Read the page by yourself


Discuss with the group any 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








Your summaries:








Mariah: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.



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,”