WALT: Understand how people remember and record the past in different ways.
Today for Inquiry we did research on Captain James Cook and the British Navy Ship from when they discovered New Zealand and Australia. For this task we all had to work in buddies, my buddy was Jane, we both had something to do, one of us worked on one question and the other worked on the 2nd question. I did the first question, the Endeavour. That question was much easier, because there was more information on the Endeavour, cause working on that, led to other interesting things. The Maori question was worked on by my buddy, Jane, she found it quite hard because there was not as much information as the other, and yeah.....that's our/my thought on this task.
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ReplyDeleteYou're quite right NJ, it's definitely not as easy to find information about Maori from before the Europeans arrived. The oral traditions - talking about it instead of writing things down - meant that all of the information they had was inside their heads (which makes them pretty clever as far as I'm concerned). What that means is that it's hard for us to know exactly what they were doing compared to the British who wrote EVERYTHING down. Mahi tino pai, Norah-Jade! Kia mau.
ReplyDeleteHi Norah that is a very cool post with a lot of information. Keep up the good work.
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