Naomi Retell: Matariki

 Retell: Matariki

Walt: use descriptive language to retell the story of matariki. 

Planning:

Characters	Matariki
Beginning - how does it start?
Middle - what is happening?
End - how does it end?

Make sure you use descriptive language to make the story more interesting. Pull the readers in to read YOUR writing, make it fun!

Start your writing here:

→Every year we have an event that is a maori New year! The maori new year is called, matariki! Matariki is where there are nine stars up in the sky <3 how they first came alive is when the brother named tawhinmate, ripped out his eyes and crushes them…

 he threw them into the sky and there was the nine stars <3 Their names were Waiti, waita, pohutukawa, Ururangi, waipuna-a-rangi, hiwa-i-te-rangi,Tupu-a-rangi and Tupu-a-nuku. In the center of the sky was This beautiful star called matariki! 

The nine stars are actually visible and are cluster stars! The youngest star out of them all is, Hiwa-i-te-rangi. Hiwa-i-te-rangi is actually the wishing star! Whiti and waita are twins <3 in 2021, the matariki lights will keep on going on till the 11 july.