ORAL TRADITIONS. Learning objective/ Kaupapa for all lessons this week: To deliberately choose language, content and structure to suit audience and purpose in an oral text. AND To use specific dramatic approaches and conventions in structured ways for effective exploration of ideas, texts, issues and themes. VALUES… COMPETENCIES… Do Now/ Nā Mahi: Look at the cards with different traditional oral texts on them. Put them into groups.

To deliberately choose language, content and structure to suit audience and purpose in an oral text. AND To use specific dramatic approaches and conventions in structured ways for effective exploration of ideas, texts, issues and themes. Which groupings are most relevant to the Kaupapa today? Have we identified any groupings that are relevant to the relevant groupings

In groups, identify all the stuff we need to learn about to achieve these Learning Objectives/Kaupapa by looking at each element of them To deliberately choose language, content and structure to suit audience and purpose in an oral text. AND To use specific dramatic approaches and conventions in structured ways for effective exploration of ideas, texts, issues and themes.

To deliberately choose language, content and structure to suit audience and purpose in an oral text. AND To use specific dramatic approaches and conventions in structured ways for effective exploration of ideas, texts, issues and themes.

Here are some of the possible purposes of the traditional oral texts. Can you think of any more?

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Who are the possible audiences? 1.Political speech Whaikorero (speechmaking) 2.Wedding speech 3.Whakatauki (proverbs) 4.Sermon 5.Proverbs 6.Prayer 7.Whakapapa (geneologies) 8.Welcome 9.Waiata (Maori prayer) 10.Fable 11.Debate 12.Recount (telling a story of something that happened in the past) 13.Slam poetry recital 14.Pūrākau (Maori oral story) 15.Poetry recital 16.Moteatea (Maori traditional song) 17.Book reading 18.Ballad (European long sung poem) 19.Myths and legends 20.Chants 21.Motivational speech 22.Songs 23.Shanty 24.Play/Skit 25.Monologue

Which ones are narrative like the monologue we are preparing for? Bring them up and stick them on the board.

To build our confidence, we are going to work on Storytelling/ Pūrākau. This is what I think I know about Pūrākau… Traditional storytelling Word comes from Pū (roots) and rākau (tree). Relates to inter-connectedness that they bring. Highly prized, carefully constructed and skilfully delivered. What do you know?

Plenary pass the parcel. Learning objective/ Kaupapa for all lessons this week: To deliberately choose language, content and structure to suit audience and purpose in an oral text. AND To use specific dramatic approaches and conventions in structured ways for effective exploration of ideas, texts, issues and themes. VALUES… COMPETENCIES…