Group Rima

Read the document below about the New Zealand Wars.

Tuesday: Work on vocabulary

1. Read. Through the text to get an idea of what it is about, discuss together if you are finding bits confusing.

2. There are 36 words that you may not know.

As a group find the following words in the text and try and work out what they mean. You can work out the meaning by reading the text, looking in the dictionary or using google (but remember Google isn't always right so be careful).

Decide in your group who will take which words (about 6 each).

“routed”, “garrison”, “antique muskets”, “mounted”, “campaign”, “faction”, “encountered”, “storm”, “setbacks”, “incident”, “inconclusive”, “arrogant”, “howitzers”, “palisades”, “redoubt”, “ancestral”, “decisive”, “stockade”, “resistance”, “lush”, “resisting”, “regiments”, “muster”, “invasion”, “defiance”, “confiscated”, “sporadic”, “waning”, “outwit”, “ebbing”, “refuge”, “ultimately”, “prevailed”, “wresting”, “confiscations”, “compounded”