Reading 3

IECP

Fall 2013

Nikki Mattson

Agenda

• Idiom

• RE 5B pre-reading (video + discussion)

• RE 5B text + discussion

Be/go nuts

• be/become crazy

Practice

• I usually go nuts when…

• When I found out that I was accepted, I went nuts and…

• When I was at the concert, I went nuts and…

“This is our heritage,” says Manutea Owen, a former canoe champion and a revered hero in

his home island of Huahine.

From about 1300 to 800 B.C., the Lapita people colonized islands that stretch over millions of

square kilometers, including the Solomon Islands, the Santa Cruz Islands, Vanatu, Fiji,

New Caledonia, and Samoa.

There was an interval of around 1,000 years before the civilization of the Polynesians,

descendants of the Lapita, launched a new period of exploration.

Then, they outdid the Lapita with unbelievable feats of navigation, expanding the boundaries of their

oceanic world until it was many times the size of that explored by their ancestors.

Then, they outdid the Lapita with unbelievable feats of navigation, expanding the boundaries of their

oceanic world until it was many times the size of that explored by their ancestors.

There was one stubborn question for which archeology has yet to provide any answers.

How did the Lapita and early Polynesian pioneers accomplish, many times over, a feat that is

analogous to the moon landing?

Unfortunately, no one had found an intact Lapita or early Polynesian canoe that might

reveal how they were sailed.

It is also conceivable that Lapita sailors followed the smoke from distant volcanoes to

new islands.

It disrupts world weather in a variety of ways, but one of its effects is to cause trade winds in

the South Pacific to weaken or to reverse direction and blow to the east.

Lapita and Polynesian Migration

• Video Why were the Lapita the first people to colonize Oceania?

Video Follow-up QuestionsAccording to the professor..

1.Why didn’t people before the Lapitas explore beyond the Solomon Islands?

2.What allowed the Lapita people to explore more than what had been explored before?

3.What role might the Lapita’s ranked society have played in their exploration?

• Read 1 paragraph silently• Orally summarize the paragraph with your

partner• Repeat these steps until you have finished

the text

( 25 minutes)• Let Nikki know that you are ready for the

discussion questions

Reading and Oral Summarizing -5B Text

HW

• Optional newspaper summaries = Monday