School Journal Level 4 November 2024
Inside this School Journal is one comic (Tōku Anō Takiwā | In my own time and place), one essay (Carrier Pigeon), two articles (Through a Māori Lens - The Photographs of Te Rawhitiroa Bosch; The Kuranui Waka and the Story of Te Pakakohi), one story (Running Wild), one play (The Money or the Goat?) and one example of student writing (Grandad's Blue Eyed Taro Princess). Five texts in this issue share the theme of identity.
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School Journal Level 4 November 2024
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Tōku Anō Takiwā | In my own time and place
A graphic novel – in the form of a memoir – about life with Autism.
1 of 7Carrier Pigeon
An essay about life as an identical twin.
2 of 7Through a Māori Lens
Te Rawhitiroa Bosch takes photos of te ao Māori. He wants his work to uplift his people, portraying them in a truthful, positive light.
3 of 7Grandad's Blue Eyed Taro Princess
A student writer explores her growing Samoan identity over time (poetry).
4 of 7Running Wild
Two stories in one, based on the life of Frank Worsley and his adventures as a navigator for Ernest Shackleton.
5 of 7The Money or the Goat?
A play based on a famous mathematical brain-teaser - the Monty Hall problem.
6 of 7The Kuranui Waka and the Story of Te Pakakohi
An ancient waka discovered on the banks of the Kuranui Stream, near Pātea, tells the story of the people who once owned it and their experience after the New Zealand wars.
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