Boot Camp
Liyah has never seen Uncle Joey this happy.
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Series: School Journal Level 4 November 2019
Reading year level: 8
Category: Fiction
Topics: anger, argument, attitude, boot camp, challenge, change, choice, community, decision, emotions, family, feelings, gangs, gym, identity, relationships, responsibility, self-worth, values, whānau
Boot Camp
Words by Shanna Fa‘aita
Illustrations by Andrew Burdan
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School Journal Level 4 November 2019
Inside this School Journal are three stories (Boot Camp; Hurly Burly; and Across the Sea), one screenplay (The Game), one memoir (An East German Childhood), and two articles (Puaki and Chinese New Zealanders).
1 of 7The Game Screenplay
An argument about which TV show to watch quickly turns into something else.
2 of 7Puaki
Tā moko is the art and practice of traditional Māori tattoo, a taonga that almost disappeared as a result of colonisation. Puaki means “to come forth, to reveal, to give testimony”. Photographer Michael Bradley used this concept as the basis of a project exploring ways that tā moko has been both vis...
3 of 7Hurly Burly
“Hurly Burly” is a spooky morality tale set in the New Zealand gold rush and based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth. John Macbeth is returning to camp when he sees three wild and withered creatures stirring a foul stew and incanting “double, double, toil, and trouble”.
4 of 7Chinese New Zealanders
"Chinese New Zealanders" provides an overview of migration to Aotearoa New Zealand from the 1860s until the present day.
5 of 7Across the Sea
Ihaka’s first journey across the sea.
6 of 7An East German Childhood
Uli Hartung was seventeen years old and living in East Germany when the Berlin Wall came down.
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