Kos/Keeping Ourselves Safe

Play Summary - Term 3 Weeks 1-2

For the next two weeks you are working in groups to practise and

perform a play.

This is using our oral language and reading skills in literacy.

Our key competency focus is participating and contributing.

For writing your task is to summarise the main events

in your play in three paragraphs.

You must plan your writing first but it is up to you how you

do your planning.  You must also write a fourth

paragraph about your experience of practising and

performing your play.

Yr 6

I am learning to organise my text into paragraphs which begin with a main idea

and contain supporting information/detail.

I am learning to make links across paragraphs.

I am learning to use basic punctuation accurately.

I am learning to use dialogue punctuation accurately.

Yr 7

I am learning to use a range of different planning styles.

I am learning to plan my writing to suit the purpose of my writing.

I am learning to organise my ideas into paragraphs where the ideas

are clearly related and where there are links within and

between paragraphs.

I am learning to use basic punctuation accurately in my writing.

I am learning to use complex punctuation to enhance my writing

e.g. colons : and semi-colons ; , and parentheses ().

Success Criteria

I will be successful when I can/have

-summarised the play in three paragraphs

-made links across my paragraphs

-used some basic and complex punctuation correctly (speech marks).

Once you have finished your writing highlight these success criteria

green if you have met them and can show them in your work.

Highlight green in your work where you have met these

success criteria.

Maui and the Giant Ika

In the first part of this story Maui wanted to go fishing with his four

older brothers but they shouted at him,   “ NO! “

Maui was so angry he thought of a plan to trick his four brothers.

He made one of the toughest fishing lines to catch the best fish.

Maui woke up just before sunrise and hid at the bottom of the canoe.

When they were out at sea

Maui popped out of the bottom of the canoe and said, “ I’m Here! ”  

In the second part of this story Maui started saying the

karakia to call in the fish to them.

Maui started to sing the karakia,

“E te atua, homai ki a matou, tou maramatanga, tou rangimarie,

tou kaha me tou aroha, mo tenei ra, Amine.

” The Karakia worked and lots of fish started to come in.

At the end of this story , this giant fish came right underneath the canoe,

people call it the Giant Ika.

Maui shouted,

“ Stop it’s a gift from our grandmother, Muri-ranga-whenua!”  

Maui caught the fish and

the four older brothers started yelling and fighting over the Giant Ika.

At the end they stopped arguing and all went back to the island, and the

Giant Ika still lies where it is as the North Island.

When my group did our play we had to get all the props we needed from home and school. One thing we did really well was organizing all the props and masks.

One thing we really enjoyed was acting in the play.

As a team we helped each other if we got stuck on a line.

We participated and contributed by bringing props for our play from home.

One thing I would improve on next time would be to memorize my lines.