Māui And The Giant Ika play

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.

Māui And The Giant Ika

In the story there are Maui and his brothers and Maui is a demi god.
In the first part of the story Maui’s brothers where going fishing but Maui is not
allowed to go fishing because  his brothers won’t let him. Maui had a plan to
hide in the Waka for the whole night so that he could go fishing with his
brothers.

In the second part of the story Maui scares his brothers when they are
out at sea fishing because he jumps out of his hiding spot and Maui says
to his brothers,“Let's keep going out” but his brothers don't want to but
Maui paddles out to where he thinks there's fish. Maui's brothers say,“We are
not giving you any bait”.

At the end of the story Maui uses his grandmother's jawbone as a hook
and puts it on his nose and uses blood from his nose for bait. Maui throws
the jawbone out  and gets a mighty bite and he pulls it up and Maui says
this is a gift from our grandmother. He pulls up a fish that is the size of a land.
Maui goes to travel to the head of the fish to get his jaw bone and he ask
his brothers not to touch the fish .The brothers start too chop it up because
they are jealous and  this fish became the North Island. Because Maui's
brothers chopped it up that’s why there are hills there.

When our group did our play I felt it was going to go really well. One of the
things we did well was looking to the audience and not turning our backs
to the audience. We enjoyed making the props and performing. As a team
we helped each other if we got stuck on a word or something. We participated
in making the masks and performing our play. We contributed by bringing the
props from our homes. One thing I would improve on next time is to memorize
my lines.