Voyages and Navigation: Week 5/6 Term

 Friday 11th June 2021

We are learning to synthesise information in order to compare and contrast ideas across texts. 

Over the last couple of weeks we went deeper into the texts from week 4. We discussed how the author had used language to convey the points of view differently.  For example, in the text 'Te Taki", which is told from the point of view of a Māori boy seeing Europeans for the first time the language is written as if they have never seen Europeans before. Compared to the language in the Close Call at Tristan Du Cunha which is very British formal. We found it interesting to think about how different people may have experienced these events and they way the authors choose to portray this through language.

This week we finished recording and synthesising all the texts for the purpose, audience, and point of view

and took two of the texts and compares them against each other. 

We have been continuing to create our own timelines and narrating our own stories, and some people have started creating a stop-motion animation of their ancestors experiences. Here are their works so far.

Summer created a slide show of the story of Hone Heke - who she discovered was her eighth great grandfather! You might like to have a look.