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Friday, 23 June 2017

Matariki comprehension

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Answer all the questions in full sentences:
  1. What is matariki - It is a mari celebrations or a maori new year
  2. Name another constellations like taurus - Huntah
  3. What is another natural event like the flowering of plants and movement of stars in the sky that the maori might have used to track time? -
  4. When does the Matariki cluster reappear? - May or early June
  5. What did maori believe the stars would look like if it was going to be a good season? - It was a sign for winter  
  6. Why do you think there is more than one myth to explain Matariki? - There are different tribes with different types of stories.
  7. What do these words in Te Reo  mean in English? -
  1. Pataka pai - Storage house
  2. Kakari - Feast
  3. Whenua - Land
  4. Whanau - Family
  5. Whakapapa - Ancestry
    8. List three ways maoris celebrate Matariki? - People came together to the shore and sang songs, tradition and stories.
9. What stories do you think maoris used at that time? - About the parents and childhood.

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