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Week 2 of 4

Sealers, whalers, traders and missionaries: what was exchanged?

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Session 1 · TRACE: Relationships

The trade table

  1. 10 minWho came and why? Sealers for skins (from 1792), whalers for oil, traders for flax and timber, missionaries to spread Christianity. Add each group to the timeline.
  2. 25 minTrade game: groups hold object cards (pigs, potatoes, flax, timber, iron tools, blankets, muskets, books). Trade in three rounds (1800, 1815, 1830). Values change each round. Record what each side wanted and why.
  3. 10 minDiscuss: who had the power in each round? Why did muskets become so valuable by 1820?
  4. 5 minAdd three exchanges to your rohe map, with arrows showing which way things moved.

Session 2 · TRACE: Relationships

Go-betweens and travellers

  1. 10 minMeet the go-betweens: Ruatara, who sailed to Sydney and London before 1814; Hongi Hika and Waikato in England in 1820; Pākehā-Māori who lived in Māori communities.
  2. 20 minStudy the 1820 painting of Hongi Hika, Waikato and Thomas Kendall. What does the artist show? What might he have misunderstood? Who is holding what?
  3. 15 minRelationship web: string or lines between rangatira, missionaries, traders and whalers. Label what each gave and received: protection, trade, land for a mission, schooling, muskets.
  4. 5 minExit card: why did rangatira welcome missionaries and traders? Give two reasons.

Session 3 · TRACE: Accounts

Words on paper

  1. 10 minRead 'Words on paper'. How did te reo Māori get written down, and who did the work?
  2. 20 minSpelling challenge: early writers spelled names like 'Shunghee' (Hongi) and 'Tippahee' (Te Pahi). Try writing five te reo words by ear, then compare with the 1820 alphabet. Why did a shared alphabet matter?
  3. 15 minPrint a page: carve a short whakataukī or your own sentence in te reo into foam, ink it and print it. How did printing change who could read and write?
  4. 5 minRecord: what do printed books in te reo tell us, and what can't they tell us?

Getting started

Use trade cards with pictures and a partly completed relationship web.

Stretch

Compare what a missionary journal and a trader's account say about the same place. What did each want readers to think?

Checkpoint

Each group can name three exchanges in its context, who gained from each, and one way writing changed relationships.

Activities for this week

  • Trade table game: What did each side want, and how did the value of things change over time?
  • Print a page: How did printing change who could read and share ideas?

Useful this week