Play Summary

Play Summary - Term 3 Weeks 1-2

For the next two weeks you are working in groups to practise 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 and the giant Ika

Long long ago before Aotearoa there was a man called Maui.
Maui asked his brothers if he can go fishing with them.
His brothers all said, “No!”
That night Maui made a plan and made a  fishing line.
While he is doing that he chants a karakia.
He then gets the jaw bone of his grandmother….

Early that morning, Maui hides in his brothers waka unseen.
When the brothers are far out at Moana
Maui jumps out and surprises his brothers.
The brothers then fish and while they are fishing Maui chants
a Karakia and the brothers pull up heaps of Ika.

Maui starts fishing with the jaw bone of his grandmother, and calls
his karakia. Maui suddenly gets a great big; giant bite at the end of the string.
With great will he pulls up a giant stingray and his brothers all
start arguing about what piece they want. They cut pieces out
of the stingray. They stingray now lies as the North Island of Aotearoa.

THE END

When my group did our play one thing we did well was
bringing things for costumes. As a team the first part of
each session the boys started off yelling and not focused.
But by 10 minutes of each practise time, we were into the practise.
I think we ended up working well together in the end.
Our play went well when we performed but I think the
play needed more acting and less talking.
Everyone in our team participated by have
lines and acting in the play.
Everybody contributed by bringing in at least one thing.  
We all also contributed by giving ideas to the play.
One thing I would like to improve is have more acting,
and everybody starting to practise as soon as we have been
let to go to practise!