How Maui Slowed The Sun

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.

How Māui Slowed The Sun

Back When Aotearoa was still young Māui his brothers and the villagers were
complaining that the sun was moving Too fast. The sun would make the days faster
and faster and they had no time to do their chores. That means that they had no time
to go fishing or hunting so they were starving. One night Māui and his brothers were
sitting by a campfire talking about how they thought the sun was going too quickly
across the sky. Suddenly Māui stood up and said, “I Māui can slow the sun”.
His brothers laughed. Then Māui argued, “You have seen me fish up land nothing
is impossible”. Māui’s brothers agreed and they said they would help Māui slow the sun.

The villagers wished them luck when they set off. After a while exhaustingly they
arrived at the hole the sun comes out of. Luckily they arrived in time to gather
harakeke (Flax) so they weaved the harakeke into strong ropes and made them into
a GIANT net. Suddenly they saw sunlight rising from the hole. “Get ready brothers,“  
said Māui.

“He’s starting to rise”. When the suns huge eyes slowly lifted out of the hole he said
,“So I now meet you Māui”. “Come on brothers throw the net on”, said Māui. “Allright,”
said the brothers.

Quickly the brothers threw the net on. “WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO ME,” said the sun.
Māui hit the sun with the magic jawbone of his ancestors then the sun yelled out,
“WHY ARE YOU HURTING ME”. “You fly too quickly across the sky,”Māui said.
“We have no time to do our chores or go hunting or fishing”. The sun gave up
he made a promise that he would give them enough daytime to do what they needed.

  

K.O.S

At school we have been learning how to keep ourselves safe. Constable Jos and Terri have been helping us with this learning. Here are some of the things I have learnt.