Maui and the big Ika.

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 BIG IKA  (FISH).

One day long long ago there lived a demigod named
Maui. One morning Maui went and asked his other
brothers if he could go fishing with them. When his
brother heard this they said, “NO!! “You are to
small we might think you are a piece of bate and
throw you to the fish.”Now Maui was angry so he
made a plan to go fishing with his brothers. So in
the morning he carried out his plan. Before the sun
rose up from it's hidey hole Maui went and hid in the
fishing nets in his brothers boat where he could not
be seen.

Not long after Maui heard his brothers hop into the
boat. When Maui thought they were at the right
place Maui let out from his hiding place an said,
“I am here.” “Hay what are you doing here”
said his brothers. Maui did not listen then he said
drop your fishing line down here  my karakia will
call the fish to your lines after these words his
brothers felt fish on their lines.

After that Maui said now it is my turn and he threw
his line into the water with the  jawbone of his
ancestors as the hook. He threw the line out into
the water. Minutes later there was an  enormous bite
and he pulled and pulled. When the fish came to the
surface Maui said that he would not be long and
that he was just getting his hook from the mouth of
the fish. His brothers did not listen. They went and
stabbed the fish and when Maui came back he found
a big lot of bumpy land which is now the North
Island of New Zealand.