Living in a Shipwreck

Living in a Shipwreck

1.2.07 Part 1

WALT: Analyze surface features and the language used

1. The Star of Canada sank in this story. A word that describes how it sank is = ‘Slowy’. Now we can write ‘Sank Slowly’. Two words that start with the same letter (like sank & slowly) and are put next to each other is called; Alliteration. Other examples of alliteration are; Fast Frog or Stinky Snail.

Find alliteration for these words from the story.

Wooden Washbasin

 

Rocky Reef

Captain Cabin

Slippery  Stairs

2. What is a shipwreck? A shipwreck is a ship that is broken just like a old car.

3. How did the ship sink? It sank because the winds blew the ship onto the rocky reef at kaiti beach where it stuck fast. Water started to gush into the boat.

4. Why do you think the part of the ship they saved was called the wheelhouse? It is called the wheel house because they had a bell in their home they have a wheel in their home and it had lots of stuff that looked liked a real ship.

5. What is a barge? a barge is an boat that take stuff from here to a the other side of an country.

6. Find  and mark Gisborne on a map of New Zealand using google drawing. Mark and name 3 near by towns. tolaga waira opotiki.