Passion Project Progress

 In Wananga, we have been working on making a planned schedule for our individual or group passion projects. For my group 5 people working on our own manga/comic. We have been constantly adding details and more information. Ou r passion project is Creating a manga about our daily life in school. We have chosen this because we want to share our story with others. There are five of us making a manga script about our daily life in school. We will be making this manga in paper-like 3a paper and every single person has to do one thing, what I'm doing is making the template and the writing, the other two will be making a story of the manga and the last person will be practicing the drawing stuff. We will be making this project in the DVC room because I need to do the template of the boxes of the drawing. The material we need is paper, then we need a ruler and a pen.

So far we have managed to start on our introduction a starting phase for our comic. We have done a few parts of our first chapter and we are starting to draw it scene by scene. We assigned every single member of our group their own specific jobs or tasks to do while making the comic. 

Poem Analysis

 

• What senses does the poet mainly appeal to? Sound and Sihjt
• Which images are most powerful or striking? The images of the Tekoteko being portrayed as something deathly and horrid. 
• Which sounds are particularly memorable? The repetitive lines of ''Tihei Mauriora"
• Which words do you find most striking / vivid / disturbing / moving? Taiaha the war spear the poem states about it being is fist
• What are your first impressions of the speaker of the poem (if there is one)? A person with a dark sense of humor

1. Why do you think Māori language used in this poem? To show how much Tu , the person in the poem his Maori language capabilities.
2. Is this a rhyming poem, or a free verse poem? Why do you think that is? Free verse Poem
3. Who are:”Kupe Paikea Te KootiRewi and Te Rauparaha”? Historical figures in Maori history.
4. In the third stanza, the poem uses a pepeha style. What is a pepeha, and why would it be important in this poem? To show the range of his capabilities of speaking Maori language.
5. Find examples of the following techniques and explain why they have been included:
1. metaphor : " Jail is my marae " Metaphorically stating how Tu describes jail as his home rather than an actually Marae
2. personification : the TekoTeko/wood carving portrayed as if it was a living being throwing his tongue down at the feet of Tu. Feeling angry at Tu for his capabilities as a Maori and Pepeha descent.
3. strong verbs "he ripped his tongue from his mouth and threw it at my feet"
4. first person pronoun: Tu
5. repetition : Tihei Mauriora, a reoccurring line that is stated throughout the poem

Apirana Taylor : Sad Jokes on a Marae 

Tihei Mauriora I called

Kupe Paikea Te Kooti

Rewi and Te Rauparaha.

I saw them

grim death and wooden ghosts

carved on the meeting house wall.

In the only Māori I knew

I called

Tihei Mauriora.

Above me the tekoteko raged.

He ripped his tongue from his mouth 

and threw it at my feet.

Then I spoke.

My name is Tū the freezer worker.

Ngāti D.B. is my tribe.

The pub is my Marae.

My fist is my taiaha.

Jail is my home.

Tihei Mauriora I cried.

They understood

The tekoteko and the ghosts

though I said nothing but

Tihei Mauriora

for that’s all I knew.

Apirana Taylor

Translation/Glossary/Context

Tihei Mauriora – the sneeze of life / a call to claim the right to speak and how one traditionally starts the whaikōrero portion of a pōwhiri.

Kupe – First Polynesian to discover the islands of New Zealand.

Paikea – The Whale Rider / Kahutia- te- rangi

Te Kooti – Folk hero from 1800s

Rewi – Ngāti Maniapoto chief who fought the British

Te Rauparaha – Folk hero around during 1700s and 1800s.

Tekoteko – carved wooden figure(head) attached to the gable of the whare. 

Marae – ceremonial open space / courtyard

Taiaha – war spear