Sunday, December 3, 2023

Polynesian navigation


Speaking lead in:


1. How big is the Pacific Ocean, compared to the Atlantic Ocean?
2. How did the islands of the Pacific (including these islands in Aotearoa) get populated?
3. How many Pacific island countries can you name?
4. Do you know what the name Aotearoa means?
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Pre-listening language


Polynesian wayfinding - basic language

24 terms


Navigational aides

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Each of these sentences is false. Listen and then correct them.

1. People began to explore the Pacific Ocean 1500 years ago.

2. Ancient Polynesians saw the ocean as an obstacle.

3. The people who became Polynesians originally lived in South America.

4. Voyages became more frequent after 1300 AD.

5. Ancient canoes were single hulled.

6. Ancient canoes were powered by a single oar.

7. Ocean swells in the Pacific typical flow westward.

8. Ancient navigators could tell the direction they were sailing by the rocking motion caused by the wind.

9. It was harder to see the direction of the swell at sunset and sunrise.

10. A star compass is a physical object.

11. In a mental star map the canoe is at the top.

12. The North Star is the only star in the sky that rotates.

13. The North Star is visible south of the Equator.

14. The Southern Cross points directly to the South.

15. Navigators could find clouds in the reflections of lagoons.

Listen

TED Lesson

Use vocab in a sentence

Maritime Museum


Part 1

1. How long ago did Kupe make his exploration of New Zealand?
2. What is Kupe credited with?
3. Who named New Zealand "Aotearoa" and what does it mean?
4. What brought Kupe to Aotearoa?
5. What struck Kupe about the Hokianga?


Part 2

6. What does Te Pou Ahi mean?
7. What does Hokianga-(nui)-a-Kupe mean?
8. What does Kohukohu mean?
9. What did Kupe leave at the mouth of the harbour?
10. How did he create one of the taniwha?




Kupe memorial anchor stone, and St Lukes Anglican Church, Pakanae marae, Hokianga, Northland, New Zealand 







Kupe and Kuaka




Kupe is assumed to have followed the path of the kuaka on his journey to Aotearoa. The traditions of the Ngati Awa and Ngai Tahuhu hold that, when living on one of the small islands in the Pacific, they noticed that the kuaka migrated every year in a southerly direction, returning from the same point. From this evidence the ancestors of these tribes deduced that land was to be found in that direction and two canoes were outfitted for the voyage to what has become known as Aotearoa.   



Kuaka on the wing are known as “waka kuaka”. Their cries are loud as they fly along. During daylight the ancestors followed the course of the flight in their canoes by observing the direction of the flight. In the night they would listen for the cries of the kuaka on their way to the south above the fleet of canoes and so be guided by them

Ko te kaupapa waka kit e moana hoe ai ko te kahui atua kit e ranga rere ai

Whilst the fleet of canoes over the ocean are paddled, the flocks of gods are above in the heavens flying.

1. The connection between the story of Kupe's voyages and the kuaka bird is

A) there is evidence Kupe introduced the birds into New Zealand
B) the birds followed Kupe to New Zealand
C) Kupe followed the birds to New Zealand


2. During the nights of the voyage the ancestors

A) listened for the cries of the birds to guide them
B) struggled to hear the birds over the sound of the sea and wind
C) observed the direction of their flight







Excerpt from Artefact

European versus Polynesian Navigation


20:28 - 24:20

1. In the mid 1700s, the southern skies offered a perfect ____ to map the ______ of Venus.

2. European charters looked at the stars with a western, scientific _____

3. Greenwich is where you can see the

4. Prime Meridian Line at Greenwich marks ____ degrees longitude.

5. The Prime Meridian Line gives us a ______ axis, allowing us to ____ the world.

6. Cook's form of navigation uses an ___ of God perspective.

7. In contrast, Polynesian navigation puts the navigator at its ____.

8. ____ stars rise from the same point and follow the same path.


12 Collocations



WHO IS TUPAIA?
- a Tahitian navigator who sailed aboard the Endeavour in Captain Cook's first voyage. 
- a translator in Cook's encounters with Māori.
- born around 1724-25 and died in 1770 from an illness, buried in an unknown grave on the island of Damar-Besar, Indonesia. 
- no known drawings or paintings of him.
- not only known for his navigation skills, but was known for his knowledge on genealogy and spirituality.


The Adventures of Tupaia

1. Why is the book uniques and special, according to the author?
2. According to the author, why has Tupaia's brilliance been overlooked by European scholars?
3. What is decolonisation about for the author?



further reading


Tupaia's map





In the Wake of Cook



Lead in

What is a "wake?"



Part 1.

1. When I was a boy there was a huge old ____ on the wall of the classroom.

2. It was the old British Empire, which was _______ "a very good thing".

3. Cook sat for the portrait ________ voyages. "He certainly _____ the part".

4. Adjectives to describe Cook in the portrait:

r_____________, r_____________: a visionary.

5. For those already in the Pacific Cook's adventure might be seen more as a ___________.

6. One that might bring ___________, _____________, and ______________.



Part 2.

1. Year of Cook's arrival in Pacific: 17___

2. Name of Cook's ship: The E___________

3. Tahiti conquered and claimed by the British in 17___

4. Wallace extinguished any resistance by the ______ use of ________

5. Cook's sailors remembered the accounts of the "______ _______s" to be found in the South Seas.

6. Now they were desperate to get _____

7. Rules. Number one: Do not ever _____  _____   _____

8. "Well, that was never going to ____"

9. After eight months of tedium and _________ at sea...




Cook's death


1. Where did Cook die?

2. Why did he have to turn back?

3. How did Cook think perhaps of himself?

4.  How exactly was he killed?

5. How does the man explain the tensions between his ancestors and Cook's crew?

6. What can we infer from what he says?









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