Opinions/Maori Contingent War Heroes

For our reading task today we were to create a group DLO writing our own opinions on why we should remember the Maori contingent's soldiers. Most students in my group agree that we should remember the soldiers. Jeremiah had disagreed and said we should not remember them because they had a small impact during World War 1 (We doubted him but that was his opinion). After writing our opinions we were to research a Maori contingent war hero.We each had to explain a littler bit about them and what achievements they've succeeded as being in both World War 1 or 2. 

Maori Battalion - Summary & Feedback

As part of learning about the Maori Battalion we read the text and wrote down the words we were unsure of or interested in. After reading the text we wrote a short summary using our words we wrote down. We wrote this summary in our reading groups and worked collaboratively to gather information about what happened in the story. After creating our summary we were to partner up with someone in our group and give constructive feedback and feedfoward to each other. We also asked questions to our partners to see if they understood the story well. As you can see I was working collaboratively with Fraidoon and in my opinion I think he was able to answer my questions very well.

Maori Battalion

This term we have been focusing on the Treaty of Waitangi and have now moved on reading about the Maori Battalion. As you have heard the Maori Battalion was a group of inhabitant people who were in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force fighting in World War 1. I have learnt that young men at the age of 15 were trying to enroll to be in the group but most of them had their birth certificate and according to it few of them lied about their age. I have learnt that only men who are at least 20 years old could join. At first there were 2,500 Maori men who were eager to fight in the war because they believed this it was their duty and responsibility. The problem was only British settlers were allowed. Suddenly British settlers had lack of attendance and didn't have much men to fight so they asked the Maori tribe to help out. I think it will be a lot of fun learning about the Maori Battalion and how they became to be an extraordinary group.