Context and quotations: The Whale Rider revision
A few notes
P30 - Rawin narrates "Being a big chief, Koro Apirana as offen called to meetings all over the
country
a) Choose a question and deliberately select examples that enable you to demonstrate how
to represent us .. The meeting that Koro Apirana had attended was about the estateistvnent of
Kohanga Reo, or language nests, wh
your knowledge of social context helps you to interpret the novel. THINK CONTEXT!
are young children could learn the Maori language. The adult
version was the language school, the regular instruction of the kind which Koro Apirana had
established a year before in Whangara . The boys and I enjoyed the lessons every weekend. It
b) Aim to discuss specific context (e.g. below) in every paragraph, as well as including at
stare in at us
soon became obvious that Kahu did. also. She would sneak up to the door of the meeting house
and
least two quotations in every paragraph, but ideally more.
c) Make sure you link the context to your point and to the question. You can do this by using
P68-69. at the school break-up ceremony, the headmaster announces that Kahu would read the
speech that had won the East Coast primary schools competition. What was remarkable, he
said,
the following prompts to help you:
was that the student had given it entirely in her own tongue, the Maori language."
i. The fact that .... (e.g. whaling was banned in 1986, just a year before the book was
P27: Koro narrates that the Maoris can no longer talk to whales - We have lost that power now' -
little
published, amid universal concern about the possible extinction of whales) emphasises how
realising that not only does Kahu speak Maon, but can use language to talk to the whales. P101
-
immoral the whale-destroyers are in chapter 15, and how Ihimaera is trying to show us that
(Kahu calls, echoing the creation story in the prologue, Karanga mal, karanga mal, karanga
mal ....
Oh sacred ancestor ... I am coming to you. I am Kahu. Ko Kahutia Te Rangi ahau.")
we ought to protect the whales and return to traditional Maori values in respecting Lord
Maori culture and traditions:
Tangaroa.
ii. When we consider .... (e.g. how sacred the whales are to the Maoris, and how they have
P58: Porourangi writes to Rawin "Wil we be ready? he asked. Will we have prepared the people
to
been the Maoris' protectors for hundred and even thousands of years), it makes us
cope with the new challenges and the new technology? And will they still be Maori?"
realise/appreciate that .... (e.g. Kahu is particularly special in becoming the link between
the two kingdoms, and restoring the interlock that there always used to be).
A few notes
P30 - Rawin narrates "Being a big chief, Koro Apirana as offen called to meetings all over the
country
a) Choose a question and deliberately select examples that enable you to demonstrate how
to represent us .. The meeting that Koro Apirana had attended was about the estateistvnent of
Kohanga Reo, or language nests, wh
your knowledge of social context helps you to interpret the novel. THINK CONTEXT!
are young children could learn the Maori language. The adult
version was the language school, the regular instruction of the kind which Koro Apirana had
established a year before in Whangara . The boys and I enjoyed the lessons every weekend. It
b) Aim to discuss specific context (e.g. below) in every paragraph, as well as including at
stare in at us
soon became obvious that Kahu did. also. She would sneak up to the door of the meeting house
and
least two quotations in every paragraph, but ideally more.
c) Make sure you link the context to your point and to the question. You can do this by using
P68-69. at the school break-up ceremony, the headmaster announces that Kahu would read the
speech that had won the East Coast primary schools competition. What was remarkable, he
said,
the following prompts to help you:
was that the student had given it entirely in her own tongue, the Maori language."
i. The fact that .... (e.g. whaling was banned in 1986, just a year before the book was
P27: Koro narrates that the Maoris can no longer talk to whales - We have lost that power now' -
little
published, amid universal concern about the possible extinction of whales) emphasises how
realising that not only does Kahu speak Maon, but can use language to talk to the whales. P101
-
immoral the whale-destroyers are in chapter 15, and how Ihimaera is trying to show us that
(Kahu calls, echoing the creation story in the prologue, Karanga mal, karanga mal, karanga
mal ....
Oh sacred ancestor ... I am coming to you. I am Kahu. Ko Kahutia Te Rangi ahau.")
we ought to protect the whales and return to traditional Maori values in respecting Lord
Maori culture and traditions:
Tangaroa.
ii. When we consider .... (e.g. how sacred the whales are to the Maoris, and how they have
P58: Porourangi writes to Rawin "Wil we be ready? he asked. Will we have prepared the people
to
been the Maoris' protectors for hundred and even thousands of years), it makes us
cope with the new challenges and the new technology? And will they still be Maori?"
realise/appreciate that .... (e.g. Kahu is particularly special in becoming the link between
the two kingdoms, and restoring the interlock that there always used to be).
