Retold by Kāterina Te Heikōkō Mataira
Reviewed by : Tha Zin
Age: 11
Auckland, New Zealand
This week’s book is called Rātā and the Tōtara tree this text is a fiction text. It’s about a guy named Rātā and he had been finding a tree to build his canoe and it took him about a few days to find the perfect tree that would float but at the same time has to be sturdy enough to use the canoe for a long time.
When Rātā finds the perfect tree since he was so excited at the time he straightaway asked his mens to chop down the tree, Although Rātā has forgotten to do the ritual and to ask permission from Tāne to chop the tree down. The next morning him and his mens went back to the same location to carve out the canoe but finds the chopped tree back in it’s original position with no marks, so they repeat the process of chopping the tree down and the ended up with the tree standing up again.
On the last night he hides in the bush and sees that heaps of animals gather up and puts the tree back in position, in that moment Rātā realized that all this time he had forgotten to do a ritual. Early next morning he does the ritual while walks to the tree he then sees that the animals had carven out a canoe for him and ends up with a canoe as a gift from the animals and Tāne.
I recommend this text to year fives up to year sevens and maybe even year eights it could teach them about how to respect other people’s things and to always ask before you use it. Itt can also teach them about learning to respect the environment so that the next generation can live a healthy and nice environment, and it can teach them to treat the beach, forests, and anywhere else as if it was their home.
No comments:
Post a Comment