1. What date is Waitangi Day and what is its significance to New Zealand?
2. Identify at least three languages used in the poem.
3. List at least four types of food for sale.
4. Use the details in the poem to copy and complete this chart:
In Porirua on Waitangi Day you can:
See…
Hear…
Smell…
Taste…
Touch…
and you will understand that…
5. Waitangi Day commemorates the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, which symbolised the two races of Maori and Pakeha joining together to share one land. Vivienne Plumb does not mention the treaty in her poem, but she begins by saying she feels as if she is ‘inside the body’ of the land.
a. How does the poem show her view of what New Zealand is like today?
b. What is so special about the Waitangi Day she shows us?
c. In what way does her poem celebrate Waitangi Day?
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