reading

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


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,”