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Monday, May 4, 2020

pages 20 and 21




Eh Htoo: In 8 September 1916 Tipu was a new recruit walking throw the turk lane with the new recruits then Tuip saw his brother they hugged then Tuip got a shovel and diged lot of people. Comprehension.

Extra sources: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/maori-in-first-world-war/on-the-western-front



How long has passed since we last read about Tipu and Rongo? What has happened since then? Where are the two boys now, and how is each one feeling?


3 August 1915 - 8 September 1916 - 14 months had passed.


Tipu - his birthday (20th), went to Egypt for training then was sent to France


Rongo - sent to France.


What is ‘turk lane’? Explain. It was built, provide pictures to help explain.

It's a 8 kilometer trench made in France and made by the pioneers battalion New Zealand soldiers. The trench was finished at midnightc 16 September. Heaps of people had to die, and were prepared because they had to dig while getting shot at.


Who was the Pioneer Battalion? Soldiers from New Zealand. Their job was to go ahead of the army, and make a trench.


Describe how Tipu is feeling (refer to paragraph 3 on page 20).

Shocked because of the smell and the people that had passed.


What does this envision? “strung along the trench like men in a waka.Team work makes the dream work.




”the Pioneers toilet paper with pick and spade,”

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