🏝🌺 Polynesian Explorers - Lesson 2🌺 🏝

🏝🌺 Polynesian Explorers - Lesson 2🌺 🏝

IALA: The early encounters with the European explorers.

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Today for Literacy room 9 were reading different texts about the Polynesian explorers, with my group we were reading these three texts:

- Maori Life Before The Europeans

- An Immigrant Family

- The legend of Hinemoa

All three texts related to our topic which is 'Polynesian Explorers.' Also along with reading these texts we had to answer questions relating to the topic provided on another slide, each group has at least 8 or 9 questions.

Here are the three links to the three different texts:

- Maori Life Before The Europeans

- An Immigrant Family

- The legend of Hinemoa

Although I haven't read ALL three texts I still have learnt some new and interesting facts about the Polynesians and Europeans explorers for example:

I learnt that the first European explorer to settle in New Zealand (Or at that time New Zealand was called Novo Zeelandia) was a Dutchman named Abel Tasman.

As it says in the previous fact that I learnt that back then in the 1630's or 1640's that 'New Zealand' was called 'Novo Zeelandia.' 

I've also learnt that Golden bay back then was once called Murderers Bay reason being when a group of Abel Tasman's men tried to land in the South Island, they were killed by local Maori and so he quickly left naming what we know call Golden bay, Murderers Bay.

I've also read that the first complete map of New Zealand created by Captain James Cook was finished in the 1770's.

(Captain James Cook's first completed map of New Zealand)

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What comes to your mind when you think about Polynesian Explorers?

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