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Wednesday 3 June 2015

New Zealand at war

WALT: Organise information and make conclusions
SC: describe conditions and happenings of world war 1 in a letter to family.

New Zealand at War School Journal June 2014. p. 2

Answer with full sentences
eg. Who is your teacher in Room 7?
Correct: Mrs Parker is my teacher in Room 7fy
Wrong: Mrs Parker  

This article briefly describes the main events during the war.
  1. Create a table showing the positives and negatives from NZ during the war. - Include the date and details. You may need to explain why things were a good or bad thing.

positives
Negatives
4 August
In four days fourteen thousand New zealand  people signed up for war.
28 June
Archduke Franz was shot and killed in Sarajevo.
16 September
The New zealand government said that maori people can go to war.
3 February
William Ham was the first to die in war
16 October
The New zealand soldier’s wanted horses for war. 3000 horses went.
25 April
Wiremu Moeke was the first Maori to die when the arrived in Gallipoli
8 December
When New Zealand Expeditionary Force was been join with Australia the word ANZAC born.
7-9 June
6,000 of the men went to war were wounded and 2,000 died.
1 August
Conscription is introduced New zealand. At the end 32 000 will become soldiers.
15-19 December
2721 New Zealand soldiers who fought in Gallipoli
died.







2. Imagine that you became a soldier during the August 1916 conscription.
Write a postcard home to your family about how you feel (using the information you already know about life in the trenches from reading this, grey’s angels and Caesar the Anzac Dog.)

Share your answers only, on your blog.

Explain what you learned doing this task and what you enjoyed and found difficult.

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