Carl Thursday: Writing Task

1. Pacific Islanders in WW1
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WALT use descriptive language to add detail

A group of soldiers from New Zealand and Australia went to fight in the war. They were known as the ANZACs (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps). Some Pacific Islanders went to war too.




Task 1: Watch the videos about the Pacific Islanders who went to war.













New Zealand: The first world war


Anzac Special - World War I and its Pacific volunteers





Task 2:




Choose a Pacific Island:




Tonga


Samoa


Cook Islands


Fiji


Niue





Research your chosen Island and write some vocabulary about it:






















Task 3: Pretend you are someone from your chosen Pacific Island who has volunteered to serve in World War 1. Write a letter to someone back home.


What do you miss from home? [Research your Island for this]


What is your job?


Where are you and how did you get there?


What do you smell, hear, see, touch, taste?


When will you be home?


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From (Lucas Jones)

It's my second month in battle at gallipoli. I feel like i wanna die but i have to keep on fighting for my country. The ottoman army has started to retreat but they're fighting their best and we can't do anything about that. It's my third month and they have started to bring more troops into battle and they have started bombing us so we sent troops to. We’ve started building trenches so we aren't too vulnerable to the explosives. We've started to push up the mountain but they're fighting back to get more territory. We're starting to fall back since they have the advantage of having the high ground and they know how to use it too. It's been a struggle but we’ve got higher than ever on the mounting but they have started to make barricades to block us out from climbing any farther up the mounting. We’ve bombed down their barricades but we have to hurry or they'll make it again and stronger maybe even bomb proof. We’ve gotten up the mountain. Finally it took a lot of work and men but this was for them. They start to retreat as we take down base by base and see the white flag rise. The miniature territorial war. (THE END)

(Based on a true story but with some tweaking)



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