Follow the PowerPoint for pre-reading, during reading, and post reading activities.

Pre-reading: Introduce setting and imagery. Play Kahoot quiz to ensure students understand.

During Reading: Give each student a copy of “A Fall of Rain at Mitimiti: Hokianga”. Ask them to circle imagery and underline nouns that help them identify the setting—examples are included on the PowerPoint—while the poem is read aloud.

Post Reading:

• Have a quick class discussion to see if there is any vocabulary they are unsure of. Use the Rangipapa slide.

• Split students into four groups and assign each one a different section of the poem (on the PowerPoint). Students are to create a dramatised version of their section--instructions are also on the PowerPoint.

• Student presentations.

• Review the following questions and write key points on the white board. Show the ending photos on the PowerPoint during this time.

  • • Where is the setting of this poem?

    • What evidence do you have (from the poem) to support where you think the poem is set?

    • What are some of the mental images you saw in your head when we read the poem?

    • How did the group activity help connect you to the imagery in the poem?

    • What imagery did you connect with after the group activity?