How Māui Tamed The Sun

Play Summary - Term 3 Weeks 1-2

For the next two weeks you are working in groups to practice 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 summaries 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 practicing 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 Sun.

In the first part of this story there is a demigod called Māui and his brothers:
Māui Mua, Māui Roto, Māui Taha, Māui Waho.Who all live in Aotearoa (NZ).
His brothers can’t get anything done like: fishing, hunting and chores because
the rā(sun) is moving tofast across the sky. There isn’t enough light to get
things done anymore.

In the second part of this story  Māui tells his brothers that he can slow the sun.
 His brothers laugh and say, “You can’t catch Tamanuiterā,  Māui, he is to
strong”. Māui  convinces his brothers to help him make a plan to slow the sun.
 Māui and his brothers then collected lots of  harakeke (flax) to weave into
ropes to trap  Tamanuiterā. They then tie all  the ropes together to make a net
to throw over the rā.

At the end of this story Māui and his brothers go and find the rā. Māui’s
brothers  flung their ropes over the Rā’s face to hold it there. Māui then hit the
sun with hismagical jaw bone and chanted a karakia. Tamanuiterā (the sun)
couldn't get free so he promised Māui that he would go slower across the sky
every day.

When my group did our play one thing we did really well was make our
costumes. We enjoyed making our props and costumes. As a team we
weren’t very focused atfirst but after 10-5 minutes we were focused and
practising. I think we worked alright as a group.  We participated and
contributed by bringing things to make props from home. One thing I would
improve next time is learning our lines and being a bit more focused when
we are rehearsing.