Term 2: Week 2

Kia ora!  This week we are exploring the story of one of the first Maori suffragists, Meri Te Tai Mangakahia. Meri Te Tai made an enormous contribution to advancing women's equality in Aotearoa through the women's suffrage movement, and more.  Well ahead of her time, Meri Te Tai Mangakahia wanted more than the right to vote, she wanted women represented in Parliament to be part of the decision-making.  

EXPLORE / TŪHURA learning intentions:

• We are EXPLORING people’s values, viewpoints, and perspectives, including my own
• We are EXPLORING how language and messaging can be used to inform, to misinform, and to position people alongside particular values and perspectives.
• We are EXPLORING relationships between events and identify continuity or changes in relationships.
• We are EXPLORING people’s actions in the past based on historical evidence and taking account of the attitudes and values of the times, the challenges people faced, and the information available to them.
  
  

Authentic Outcomes:  ‘Escape Room Challenge’ 
Theme: Resilience/empowerment/perseverance
Whakatauki: "I orea te tuatara ka patu ki waho."
Metaphorical: A problem is solved by continuing to find solutions
Literal: This whakatauki refers to the need for creative thinking, adaptability and perseverance. In order to solve a problem you need to have all of these.

Paearu Angitu (Success Criteria): I can...
• Locate information in a text
• Define key terms
• Examine values, viewpoints, and perspectives
• Construct a timeline to display a mana-enhancing event/s (leadership, change & economic relationships)

Hei Mahi (Activities):
1. Complete Term 2, Week 2's General Knowledge Quiz. 
2. Read the two short extracts below on Meri Te Tai Mangakahia one of New Zealand's first Maori suffragists.

a). Words from Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia: Māori Suffragist
b). Kia Kaha profile - Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia

3. Complete the following Cloze learning activity about Meri Te Tai Mangakahia on Google Classroom by inserting the appropriate key word from the word bank onto the document (Google Classroom).  



4. Craft a timeline of Meri Te Tai Mangakahia's life and achievements on Canva.  The Te Ara Encyclopaedia will prove to be a useful start to your research of key dates & events:  Te Ara - Encyclopaedia of NZ - Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia

5. Special Guests: Listen to Meri Te Tai Mangakahia's great grand niece Emma Frost (radio interview) with descendants Jeremy Adams & Daymon Adams.  Discuss values, viewpoints, and perspectives of land loss, and Māori women’s ownership and control of land was one reason why they needed to take part in discussion, decision-making and leadership.  Discuss how people’s actions in the past based on historical evidence and taking account of the attitudes and values of the times, the challenges people faced, and the information available to them and how language and messaging can be used to inform, to misinform, and to position people alongside particular values and perspectives.

Revisit your timeline to ensure your have captured Meri Te Tai Mangakahia's values, viewpoints, challenges and perspectives.