Le Tusitala - The Storyteller
Teacher Naima Soa
| Year
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NCEA Level
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Duration
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| 12
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2
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6 weeks
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| Achievement Standard being assessed
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Achievement criteria
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| AS90378 (English 2.4): Read, study and analyse short written texts
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- Analyse at least two short written texts of the same genre, using supporting evidence.
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| Processes
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| Exploring Language
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Explore the conventions, structures and language features in a range of texts and how they suit topic and purpose.
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| Supporting achievement objective
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Learning outcomes
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| Personal Reading
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Maintain a reading log which includes texts covered in class as well as texts of their own choice. Texts may be written, visual or oral.
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Teaching and learning activities
Select and adapt these learning activities to best meet the needs of your students, and to fit the time available:
Introduction
This unit targets students who have an interest in the Pacific Islands. The main islands focused on in this unit are Samoa and Tonga. The anthology Lali - a Pacific Island Anthology by Albert Wendt has literature from other islands which students are encouraged to read and respond to. The main aim of this unit is to encourage students who have ancestry from the Pacific to be aware that there are writers with whom they have a common bond.
This unit was designed to target Pacific Islands students, especially New Zealand born Pacific Islands students. However, this should not stop teachers from using the unit for all students. Through the literature students will explore issues and themes being debated in the Pacific Islands, especially the search for identity.
Learning task 1
Learning task 2
Learning task 3
Learning task 4
Assessment
Option 1
Sample External Assessment
and exemplars
for AS90378 (English 2.4).
Option 2
An alternative approach to the assessment of this unit could be based upon
Unit Standard 8823 version 2 (Word 45KB)
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Resources
Print
- Dunlop-Fairbairn, Peggy (1996) Tamaitai Samoa, Institute of Pacific Studies 1996
- Figiel, Sia (1996) The Girl in the Moon Circle, Mana Publications
- Figiel, Sia (1996) Where we once belonged Mana Publications
- Luafutu, Fa'amoana John (1995) A Boy called Broke, Victoria University
- Pule, John Puhiatau (1992) The shark that ate the sun, Penguin Books
- Learning Media (1994) Peaches: Secondary Schools Writing Anthology Ed.2
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Wendt, Albert (1983) Lali - a Pacific Island Anthology, Longman Paul
Nuanua - pacific writing, Auck University Press 1995
Other
- Tangata Pasifika - short films, based on Pacific Island writers' short stories. (1996)
