Our pre reading activity involved reading different newspaper headlines and writing down our thoughts and wonderings about it. May be some of our thoughts and wonderings change after we read the book and know more about it. We are also going to be fact checking for what we have written.
Here are some statements from Rongokako students about their thoughts on the front cover; "I like the contrast between the colours on the book, and I like the references throughout the cover towards the story inside the book. I wonder why in the thought bubbles there are some uncommon items and I wonder how they will be used/referred to in the text." - Matthew "I think the milk signifies their job because there weren't many jobs for foreigners at that time and the job of delivering the milk bottles is low paying. I wonder if the story will be told from multiple perspectives or just from Sophia's point of view. I also wonder if it will talk about their struggles and other peoples struggles from that time." - Oliver "The colour that the title is written in reminds me of the color of dawn. I wonder why there are three Polynesian panthers at different points of the covers; I think this because they could appear in the story quite frequently. The texture of ...
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