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Stories from the Pacific Te Tuhi Pre visit lesson 4

Welcome to Stories from the Pacific During this lesson we will learn about… But before we start, let’s recap on what Designing our story - Symbols we learnt during our last lesson… Image: http: //www. nationalgeographicstock. com/ngsimages/explore. jsf? p=R 09 SRE 9 OIEd. BSEFO

Inspires artists to tell stories growing up. During our last lesson we learnt that Polynesian tapa… Inspires artists to make art about their ancestors and history. Inspires artists to make art about their culture and community.

Let’s start this lesson by ‘Designing our story – Symbols’.

During As we this learnt, lesson artists we will have draw been ourtelling own personal their story symbols through based symbols on our for personal a longstory. time. Image: Neich, Roger and Pendergrast, Mick. Pacific Tapa. Auckland NZ: David Bateman Ltd, 1997. http: //artsonline 2. tki. org. nz/resources/units/music_units/symbol_2_sound/images. php http: //schools. natlib. govt. nz/culture-identity-heritage/primary-sources/gallery/kermadecs/tomorrow-we-leave-john-pule-2011 http: //byronic. tumblr. com/post/19812051133/take-these-walls-with-you-when-you-leave-by-john http: //cpitlibrary. wordpress. com/2010/06/09/last-chance-to-see-samoan-artworks/ http: //urban-kupesi-tattoos. blogspot. co. nz/2011/02/artist-loa-toetuu-solo-exhibition. html

To start, lets think about what our symbols could represent… Culture – lets talk about the cultures we have in the class. Family – talk to each other about how many people in your family. Home – talk to each other about your neighbourhood. Interests – talk to each other about your interests.

Culture – which nationality do you belong to? And is there a national flag? Flags can be used to represent a country and can remind us of culture. Create symbols inspired by shapes from your national flag. Try using black and white only and leave un-coloured. Draw your symbols in a box similar to symbols in tapa. If you belong to more than one culture, you can create symbols for those too. Here a few examples. Try to spot where the shapes were taken from. Image: http: //www. mch. govt. nz/nz-identity-heritage/flags http: //mdnautical. com/international 2/15709 -western-samoa-flag. html http: //www. techshout. com/internet/2007/28/12 -chinese-online-dating-websites-accused-for-promoting-prostitution/ http: //www. flags-by-swi. com/internationalflagprices_tonga. html http: //www. theflagshop. co. uk/south-african-flag-8 ft-x-5 ft-1252 -p. asp http: //www. nowpublic. com/world/india-flag-1 http: //www. alliphonewallpapers. com/iphone-wallpaper/id/1084/ http: //national--flag. blogspot. co. nz/2012/09/flag-of-england-pictures. html http: //www. end 2 stress. com/tai_chi. html Japan Samoa New England China Zealand Tonga

Family – how many members in your family? Family are people who know us best. This can include pets you have. Using black and white, un-coloured and in a box, draw symbols that represent your family and how important they are to you. Here a few examples to get you started… Ourfamily pets Image: http: //www. wikihow. com/Draw-a-Real-Dog http: //sweetclipart. com/black-and-white-cat-lineart-478 http: //plazilla. com/stoomcursus-spaans-voor-op-vakantie

Home – where do you live? Is there something that makes your place unique? Home is where we live, a place we know well and where our friends and family live. Things that remind us of home might be our house, a local park or mountain, nearby beach or unique building or town clock. Here a few examples to get you started… Auckland Nearby beach tower Your Sky house Image: http: //www. youngrembrandts. com/student-showcase. aspx http: //how. to-draw. co. uk/? s=moxie%20 girls%20 car%20 coloring%20 pages http: //www. moller. co. nz/uploaded_images/Elliot-Tower-01. jpg

Interests - do you have any hobbies? What do you like to do? Our interests (hobbies) reflect our personality. They are things are interested in or may do in our spare time. Here a few examples to get you started… Listening Playing Watching Playing video to sports music movies games or playing a musical instrument Image: http: //learningenglish-esl. blogspot. co. nz/2012_04_01_archive. html http: //www. laurennassef. com/2009/03/ http: //glass-creations. co. uk/sports-engraving-designs-c 166. html http: //www. youtube. com/all_comments? v=9 q. Nfe. Yvr 4 Gs http: //sweetclipart. com/musical-notes-line-art-482

With all our symbols we can tell our personal story like Polynesian tapa can.

Art activity Now that we have our symbols, we need to put together a pencil design for our personal tapa cloth. On an A 4 paper divide your page into 4 squares depending on your class. In each square draw one symbol. Each drawing needs to be big (the size of the square) and should be simple line drawings - no shading/no colouring in. Remember…symbols Now we have our tapa are clothdifferent design. to. We will pictures… need to bring these drawings to Te Tuhi when we visit. A symbol is a simple drawing of one thing, A picture is a drawing that can show lots of different things.

As we have seen, symbols and what they represent can Let’s recap on what we have learnt so far… tell a story that is personal and unique…

What have we learnt so far? Symbols… Can represent our family. Can represent our culture. Can represent our home. Can represent our interests.

During our gallery visit we will experience artworks that have their own stories. We learning will also about make the our stories own artof We hope you have enjoyed telling our personal story so make Polynesian tapa…sure we bring our drawings with us when we visit Te Tuhi.

We look forward to having you all here End of lesson