My Name is Davy Lowston
This text is a fictionalised recount. Davy Lowston was among a group of sealers set down on the Open Bay Islands (off the west coast of the South Island) in 1810.
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Series: School Journal Level 2 May 2016
Reading year level: 4
Category: Fiction
Topics: castaways, folk songs, New Zealand history, sealers, seals, shipwrecked, survival, whalers
My Name Is Davy Lowston
Words by Alan Bagnall
Illustrations by Spike Wademan
The ship that was to pick them up sank in a storm, and the men were marooned for four years. Their story is the basis of one of the earliest folk songs in New Zealand.
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School Journal Level 2 May 2016
Inside this School Journal are two stories (Awarua The Taniwha of Porirua; My Name Is Davy Lowston), there is one poem (Te Marama) and two articles (Night Light; Tunç Tezel: Star Man)
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2 of 5Te Marama
Tonight I can’t sleep.
3 of 5Night Light
This article presents facts and phenomena about the moon, such as tides and phases of the moon.
4 of 5Tunç Tezel - Star Man
An interview with astrophotographer Tunç Tezel.
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