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Wednesday 29 April 2020

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Page 16
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:
Korowai- Traditional Maori Cloak made of bird feathers and/or animal skin 
Patu- It is a type of weapon   
 Emphasising- Highlight something
 Whaikorero - speech given by Maori men at a powhiri to introduce themselves
Resolute - absolutely sure, determined, confident
Raging debate - a heated debate, not quite an argument.
Marae atea - The open space out in front  of the meeting house (marae)
The next chef
Europeans
Rongo
tipu

Your summaries: The next chef Europeans little brother

Davlyn: 1914 the british and the Maoris were having a big war in front of  the meating house. Then one of  the warriors stood up and said “this war is not our war it is the british so let them fight.”

Character Analysis
Page 16
‘King and Country’-
Name of character

Tipu
Rongo
First chief

Next chief
Europeans
Who are they? How do you know?
Little brother

Older brother
rangatira
Shane Taurima
 jean-claude
What is this person’s stance?
Keen for the war (supportive)
For the war
Against the war
For the war
For the war
Why might this person see it this way?
Young and excited, naive

“This isn’t our war. It belongs to the British. Let them fight it”
What will we do if the enemy lands here? Will we lay down our patu? No! We will have no choice but to fight.”

What is happening at the marae on page 16? They were having a debate seeing if they should go to war or not

What would New Zealand have been like at this time? (Hint: race relations).     
NO because they had a war for land.
 They had war for the land
No they had a war.
No, because they had a war during that time.                                       

Define a ‘conscientious objector’.
When you disagree, you don’t want to go and fight                           

Define conscription.
When the government forces you to join and idk

What happened to the conscientious objectors in NZ?
Conscientious objection and dissent in the First World War - Conscientious objection and dissent 
 Out of the 600 conscientious objectors, 286 of them went to jail then 14 of those got sent to war. 10 eventually agreed to help as stretch bearers, and the other 4 got a field punishment. They  were hanging from their shoulders  which caused extreme pain. After this 3 agreed to help. The last man faced more painful punishments before he finally got sent home injured.

Who is Archibald, and why is his name famous now (100 years after this happened..)
Davlyn-Archibald is one of the 14, Archibald was punished by getting hanged on a pole and beating up he was one of the four that refused for the longest.

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