Why Study History?

Hurumanu 1 Blog Post   - Why Study History?

Studying history is important because it's important to learn about the past and mistakes that were made. Three Historic events I am familiar with in Aotearoa  are Treaty of Waitangi, Matariki and Musket wars. More recent events that have happened in our country are Mosque shootings, Covid - 19 and Earthquakes.

We are listening to chapters from Gavin Bishop’s book ‘Piano Rock’.
He says he values his heritage because his mum’s dad was Tainui, from Waikato.

' It’s enormously important and it’s been a source of inspiration and ideas,
thinking about what life must have been like for my grandfather and his siblings.'

Te Tiriti O Waitangi

Hello people, So last week  we did a DLO of Te Tiriti O Waitangi so here is mine........

The Treaty

                                         The Treaty 

The Treaty was neglected early on after signing. It got water damage, rats gnawed it and it almost burnt in a fire.

The Maori population in the 1830s was reduced to 70-80000 because of disease and wars brought about by the British settlers. The main settlement was Russell and the missionaries and Rangitira didn't like the rough sailors who were always partying and fighting. They abused young Maori women and were often drunk.

Edward Gibbon Wakefield wanted to buy cheap land from Maori and sell to rich Englishmen, then bring out workers from the UK.

The united tribes of NZ was set up to keep the French out of governing NZ. A man called Hobson came to help the Maori get a fair deal and agree to signing the Treaty.

Tino Rangitiratanga refers to authority of the chiefs, but in the English translation, this was given to the crown (Queen). 

Potatoe war

The first European to arrive in Aotearoa in 1642 was Abel Tasman.  He named the land Neuveau Zelandia. The next explorer that arrived in  Aotearoa in 1769 was James Cook. Tu Paia was the first navigator to help the explorers. The explorers brought diseases with them and also pigs, rats and potatoes. Muskets were guns that they fought with. The musket wars ended in 1840. Maori  outnumbered Pakeha 40 to 1.

Tangata Whenua

      Tangata Whenua 

       This was our first lesson in Hurumanu 1 studying 'Where I came from' and our ancestors.

Tangata Whenua questions:

Use the questions below to help guide your note-taking. You need to identify the key points from the video and write your own notes. You can rewatch the video if you need to.

Your notes will be used to help you write a summary of the video.

1. Where did the Māori people arrive from? East asia

2. How did they arrive in NZ? In a waka

3. What did they bring to NZ? Kai ,rats , dogs and seafood and even  some traditional kai 

4. How did they get food? Huntedthe moa

5. Write 3 sentences about the Moriori people

They lived on the Chatham Islands

They were passive people

They were Maori

6. How did they prove that Māori and Moriori descended from the same people? They compared skeletons and dna.

7. Explain how the Moa came to be extinct because rats ate there eggs , and they only layed one egg a year

8. Why did Māori choose to settle in the places they did? Because it was warm and they could grow food there, and also catch food there like fish and there was a lot of water.

9. In your word bank, write the meaning of whānau means family , hapū means a group of iwi  and iwi means where they lived.. The indigenous people.
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Adverbs

                                           Adverbs 

Adverbs give the reader more detail about actions. For example.

Yesterday I walked slowly to the green dairy. 

The ugly bird sang a lovely song.

The  cheerfully singer was very good.

Interview with Mark The Martian

List 5 questions you would like to ask Mark….record his answers, then write a 

News Report based on his answers. Use the handout to help you remember the plot.

Questions and answers.

1. What is a sol? Martian solar day

2. How did you get a wound? Struck by debris

3. What did you take to get the pathfinder probe? He took the Rover

4. What did you try to grow on mars? Potatoes

5.  What country helped in your rescue?   China        

News Report:

e.g. Well known tennis player, Tony Rutene, landed in the wrong town for his latest tennis tournament. He was stuck there with no transport, no money, no food and no communications. His teammates had no idea where he was and after a week gave him up for dead because he was unable to access  a phone or computer given that everyone in the town was in lockdown. Noone travelled out of their bubble and it was only by chance that a helicopter flew over and saw Tony’s message in a vacant plot. ‘HELP!’ The pilot landed  on the plot and at a safe distance was able to sort Tony out and fly him back home to his relieved family and teammates.

Write your draft news report here:

Space mission biologist Mark Watney landed accidentally on Mars after a storm. He had no food or no contact with NASA to get him off Mars. Luckily Mindy Park, a NASA satellite planner saw movement on Mars and figured he was alive. He was rescued with the help of a Chinese space administration team and he got safely back to Earth.