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| Questions/instructions: Show Book Cover This is the cover from a book called “Alan Duff’s Mäori Heroes”. It is a book about famous Mäori New Zealanders. Alan Duff had his own reasons for choosing the people he has written about in his book. |
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responses
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y8
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| 1. If you were going to write a book about famous people, how would you choose the people to go into your book? What sort of people would they need to be? | ||||||||||||
| 2. How does a person get to be famous? |
very
well known (usually highly admired)
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53
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67
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done
something unique or for the first time
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10 |
15
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done
something extremely well
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45 |
57
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shown
exceptional courage/bravery
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3 |
4
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shown
exceptional persistance/perserverence
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28 |
25
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made
exceptional contribution to people/community
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3 |
9
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made
exceptional contribution to particular cause/business/activity
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4
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4
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shown
exceptional ability to promote self, attract attention, become well
known
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15 | 21 | ||||||||||
| Commentary There was little difference between the responses of year 4 and year 8 students. Both saw the main reason for fame to be doing something exceptionally well. |
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