Response to Text- The great School Camp Adventure

  • Where does Max’s school camp take place?
    a) In the mountains
    b) At a beach
    c) On the school field
    d) In a forest

  • What activity did Max and Nia do first at camp?
    a) Spotlight
    b) Obstacle course
    c) Scavenger hunt
    d) Kayaking

  • Why did the students hear a rustling sound at night?
    a) It was a wild animal
    b) It was Matua Rangi checking on them
    c) The wind was blowing through the tents
    d) The wind was rustling a pile of sports equipment near the shed

  • Why did the teachers use fairy lights instead of a real campfire?
    a) They didn’t have enough firewood
    b) It was safer for the students
    c) It was too hot for a real fire
    d) The students didn’t want to build a fire

  • What does the word ‘scavenger’ mean in the phrase ‘a scavenger hunt around the playground’?
    a) A type of bird
    b) Someone who searches for things
    c) A messy person
    d) A fast runner

  • What are three activities the students did at school camp?
    →the first Activity that they did was doing a team challenge which was an obstacle course and then they did Night game which was spotlight  and the last game was kayaking at their swimming pool.

  • Who was Max’s best friend?
    → it is Nia who is a girl

  • How do you think Max felt about the school camp? Use evidence from the text.
    → he is enjoying and very happy with the school Camp

  • Why do you think the students described the school camp as the ‘best camp ever,’ even though it was held at school?
    →Because they played fun games like racing,hiding and kayaking.

  • If you could add one more activity to this school camp, what would it be and why?
    → if i would add one more thing into camp than it would be a dance contest because not only would you show your skills at dancing but your family would  see you dance happily

 

Tupaia Master Navigator Task

  1. Where and when was Tupaia born?

 

Rā‘iātea

 

2. Why was Tupaia chosen to train with the “Arioi”?

 

So that he can train Arioi how to get mana? 

 

3.What was Captain Cook’s official mission in the Pacific?

 

To command a scientific voyage to the Pacific Ocean?

 

4. What was his “secret mission”?

 

hoping to find the unknown southern continent.

 

5. Give me an example of how Tupaia helped James Cook and his men when they arrived in Aotearoa.

 

Tupaia became Cook’s chief translator with Māori and helped with negotiating peaceful settlements and organising trade.

 

6. What do you think might have happened if Tupaia had not come with the explorers on their second journey to Aotearoa?

 

Then the Explorers would get lost and James hook’s Secret Mission which was to find the unknown Southern Continent.