📚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

1. Read the page by yourself
2. Discuss with the group any words, concepts or phrases you don’t understand and record
3. 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:

Hope: On 8 September 1916 Tipu and the other recruits hastily made their way through the deep turk lane.
It is being built by the pioneer battalion, behind the front line in France, where they are supposedly safe. One
of the soldiers asked if Tipu was okay and he said ¨Yes iḿ fine” but actually he wasn't okay. Then he finally got
to see his brother Rongo helping making the trenchers

Comprehension.

Extra sources: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/maori-in-first-world-war/on-the-western-front

1. How long has passed since we last read about Tipu and Rongo? What has happened since then?
2. Where are the two boys now, and how is each one feeling?
1. 3 August 1915 - 8 September 1916 - 14 months had passed. 
2. Tipu - his birthday  (20th), went to Egypt for training then was sent to France
3. Rongo - sent to France. 
3. 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.

3. Who was the Pioneer Battalion? Soldiers from New Zealand. Their job was to go ahead of the army,
4. and make a trench.
5. Describe how Tipu is feeling (refer to paragraph 3 on page 20).

Shocked because of the smell and the people that had passed.

5. What does this envision? “strung along the trench like men in a waka.Team work makes the
6. dream work.

”the Pioneers toilet paper
with pick and spade,”