Let's Vote on It!
The author uses this light-hearted play to introduce ideas about voting, elections, and MMP.
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Series: School Journal Level 2 May 2020
Reading year level: 4
Category: Fiction
Topics: cooperation, drama, fairy tale, humour, MMP, monster, parody, play, politics, proportional representation, voting
Let's Vote on It!
Words by Simon Cooke
Illustrations by Beck Wheeler
A monster is roaming the kingdom and causing mayhem. The characters come up with various ways to deal with the threat and then vote on the solutions. The resolution sees the problem solved peacefully through communication.
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School Journal Level 2 May 2020
Inside this School Journal are two articles (Monsters; Our First Olympians), one poem (Megabyte), one play (Let's Vote on It!), and one story (Kupe and the Giant Wheke).
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2 of 5Megabyte
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3 of 5Our First Olympians
This article provides information on some of our earliest Olympians, with a particular focus on the four athletes who attended the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium.
4 of 5Kupe and the Giant Wheke
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