Play Summary

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
practicing and performing your play.

Yr 6

I am learning to organize my text into paragraphs which begin with the 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 organize 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.

Māui and the Sun

Māui is a demigod that lived long, long ago. He has four brothers called: Māui Mua,
Māui Roto, Māui Taha, and Māui Waho. In the first part of this story, Māui and his brother's are complaining that Tamanuiterā is moving too fast and they don’t have
any time to do anything during the day. Māui says he can tame the sun and his brother’s
laugh at him but they say they will help him.

In the second part of this story, his brothers and the villagers help Māui to make
harakeke (flax) ropes to catch the sun and Māui chanted a karakia so that the ropes
are magical. Māui gets his magical jawbone off his Grandfather before he sets off.

At the end of this story, when they are ready they set off towards the sun’s pit.
They only go by night so the sun doesn’t see them. When they get there they built a
clay wall to hide behind. Māui tells his brothers to throw the ropes when he says.
When the sun comes up, Māui yells, “Throw the ropes my brothers” and they stop
the sun. Māui hits it with his magical jawbone and tells it to go slowly every day.
From that day on the sun goes across the sky slowly.

When my group did our play we were a bit silly at the start but we got better as it
went on. One thing we did well was the jawbone and our props that we used.
We participated and contributed by making props and all having a role in the play.
One thing I would improve next time is not using a script.