Chapter 6 and 7

Chapter 6:
We found this page with information of the day-by-day food traditions of New Zealand.
http://homecooking.about.com/od/ethnicrecipesandfoods/a/kiwifood.htm

Recipes:
http://www.food.com/recipes/new-zealand

Chapter 7:
Pastimes of New Zealand (sports)
http://www.workingin-newzealand.com/live-and-settle/health-and-wellness/recreation#.UoOhBierGwE

Hobbies:
http://www.portaloceania.com/nz-life-hobbies-ing.htm

New Zealand Myths and legends

New Zealand

 Land of myths and legends

Moeraki Boulders

Moeraki Boulders are located in Otago and the South Island and they are a group of big almost perfect spherical stones on the strech Koekohe Beach, they are about 60 million years old and were formed from ancient see floor sediments.

This Maori legend Tells that those stones were the food baskets of Te Kaihimaki´s canoe, Araiteuru, one of the ancestral boats that brought Maori people from Hawaiki to New Zealand the boat was sunken during a voyage to carry green stone to the island and the kumara on board, which is a sweet potatoe became on strong boulders the baskets became on soft edges and finally the sunken ship became on a reef. For Maori people The Moeraki Boulders are holy stones. In 1938 one of these Boulders was taking to the Otago museum to be showed but 25 years later it started to break dawn while other boulders in the beach were intact. Nowadays The Moeraki Boulders for being a natural phenomenon it is preserve for the government with legal protection.

 Here you can find some more information about this story: Click here!

Chapter 4

For our chapter 4 we found this blog with a lot of important information about the customs and traditions of New Zealand
http://newzealandreports.blogspot.com/2012/11/customs-and-traditions.HTML

Another page that we found is about the day by day customs
http://www.whitireia.ac.nz/international/Pages/SocialCustomsand.aspx

And finally something about their culture in general... We think that it can be useful por our chapter 4
http://www.customs.govt.nz/inprivate/traveltonz/traditionsandculture/Pages/default.aspx

This page contains information of the main and most important celebration of New Zealanders.
http://www.newzealand.com/travel/media/features/events/events_celebrating-waitangi-day_feature.cfm

and something about the tourism
http://www.rotoruanz.com/Home/

With all these pages above we will try to give an answer for the main question of this chapter:
“What are the most typical customs and traditions of your country?”

Step 4

We look over for details in format or grammar mistakes in our redaction to finish, in this case, our chapter 2.

Step 3

We started writting our final product.

We based on te rubric to elaborate the final product respeting the format and the points to evaluate.

Step 2

We started writing our draft with all the data we found.

And then we started to select the main info that we will use for the final product.

Step 1

We started researching information about the second chapter "literature" using the triangulating method that the teacher showed us.
We based our research in some web sites.

We started researching the information recommended by the theacher on the platform:

(1) What authors, books, novels, represent the culture of your country?

-We found genereal info about the literature of New Zealand in one site. It will be our source 1 of our triangulating method. http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/culture/literature-in-new-zealand-1930-1960

-We found information about Katherine Mansfield http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/people/katherine-mansfield
Her life and her highlights.


(2) What historical event(s) was the country living when that/those author(s), book(s), novel(s) was/were written/became popular?

-As a complementary info about Katherine, we are going to read in this web http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/3m42/mansfield-katherine looking for her wrotes and the context involving her productions.