Tuesday: Writing

 Pasifika Myths and Legends

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Choose a cultural Myths and Legends to retell. Your job is to watch the video to learn about a story that you choose, and try to add in adjectives and interesting details where you can. It is all about choosing your words wisely. Think about using your senses, what can you see/hear/smell/taste/feel?

Topic	Audience	Purpose
Cultural Myths and Legends	Pasifika people, people reading our blogs	Use adjectives and our senses to make our writing more interesting

Bronze: 2 paragraphs

Silver: 3 paragraphs

Gold: 4+ paragraphs

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Start your writing here:

Pasifika is a term that is unique to Aotearoa and is a term coined by government agencies to describe migrants from the Pacific region and their descendants, who now call Aotearoa home.Pasifika in Aotearoa refers to people who are descendants of the Polynesian nations of the  Cook Islands, Tonga, Niue, Samoa, Tuvalu, Tokelau. This means we don’t all speak the same language.Fiji belongs to a group of nations referred to as Melanesians. Other nations in this group include Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia , West Papua, Indonesia and Papua.  However we can still include them in the definition of Pasifika within the context of Aotearoa.

Pasifika peoples in Aotearoa, especially if they are born here, may not necessarily have learned to speak their heritage languages. Usually this is because they have not had access to opportunities to learn their heritage language either in the home or at school.  However, some Pasifika peoples may speak their heritage languages in church communities or in their homes if they have strong speakers to help teach them.

Intermarriage is, or interracial relationships are, quite common amongst Pasifika peoples or with Pasifika peoples and other cultures. So, it is not unusual to have students in classrooms who, for example, may be both Samoan and Tongan, or Māori and Cook Island. This means that students in schools will benefit from teachers getting to know the subtle differences and nuances of the cultures of their learners.Pasifika peoples like to work in groups to collaborate better with one another, which is traditionally part of their village life before migrating to Aotearoa.