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 summarise 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 practising 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.
Maui wants to go fishing with his brothers but his brothers refuse. They think he is too much trouble and is too young. He sits down and makes a plan. He started weaving flax together to make a fishing rod. He gets his magical hook that his grandmother gave him and ties it to the end.
The next morning Maui got up before his brothers and snuck in the waka and hid. The four brothers didn't see him. When the brothers got up they moved the waka into the water, “It’s heavier than usual,’’ they said to each other. They then got over it and got into the waka. Then they paddle out to sea.
A while later Maui jumped up from the waka and he surprised his brothers and shouted, “I’m Here .“ He lowered his rod and made a chant with it and brought up a giant ika. Then Maui went to go get his hook from the head of the giant ika and he told his four brothers not to cut the fish. The four brothers cut up the fish anyway. They cut pieces of the fish for their whanau and themselves. Because Maui's brothers chopped the fish up that's what created the hills in the North Island. The giant ika became the the North island of Aotearoa.
About our Play
In our play I think that our team did ok but I think that the play didn't really involve much actions and some of us didn't get much to say. But I did enjoy it. It was fun getting to act and work in a team. We contributed by bringing props from our houses.
Next time we need to do more actions.
