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Helping to win the war

• More than seven thousand soldiers fought in the 28th(Maori) Battalion during the second war.
• AT home in Aotearoa Maori school children helped to raise money to buy a canteen truck for the Battalion.
• Dick Grace writes about his memories of the war years, including helping to raise money for the truck as a school boy.
• I started school in July 1941 at Tuparoa Native school on the East Coast of the North Island.
• All the whanau in our village were poor, but we never went short for food.
• My eldest brother and some of my cousins joined the army and went away to war.
• During the war years, the children at our school dug garden plots and grew vegetables from seeds.
• After the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbour in Hawai’i in 1941

Drift by Denis Glover

Drift by Denis Glover -

What are some features we can see in the poem? Use words and quotes from the poem to support your answer...

The poem Rhymes for example:

Drift drift upon the beach

Dead Man’s bay and Dead Man’s Reach

What is the author’s purpose pf the poem?

The purpose of this poem is that there is a log drifting through the water all alone.

What are the key ideas in the poem?

The key idea is that poem is to follow your own pathway and to never give up and never let anything bring you down no matter what happens. It also means making the right choices in life and always have a positive attitude.

Why do you think these are the key ideas?

Its like you can go anywhere you want to go in life without anyone leading you to somewhere you don’t wanna be at and its like just being responsible for your own actions through life.

How does the poem make you feel?

It makes me feel like I am free because it makes me want to go anywhere I would want to go and not listening to anyone but not only I also need to be responsible and always make the right choices in life.

Why does it make you feel this way?

It makes me feel this way because you can be free and go where ever you want to go but just remember you always need to make the right choices and follow the right pathway of life.

How does the image in the poem support the way the poem makes your feel?

The driftwood drifting in the water and water can lead to different places even to your dreams and hopes coming true and then achieving your aspiration.

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