In this article, Jock Phillips shares what historians have learned about the past from four different objects. Each one tells a story about survival.

This pack contains wide range of response activities including:

• A guided reading plan exploring key literacy elements including inference and deduction, language use, making connection and text organisation, along with key questioning to promote emotional intelligence, metacognition and compassionate inquiry. 
• An independent learning contract complete with explainer videos for activity clarity
  
• A wide range of response activities to support developing and embedding key literacy skills including sentence and word work, spelling, and cloze activities. 

Themes explored include: artefacts, Christchurch, discovery, Endeavour, Foveaux Strait, history, Joseph Banks, kurī, Monck’s, Cave, moa, Napier earthquake, natural disasters, Pacific, rockets, sailing ships, sealers, sealing, sealskins, shipwrecks, Solander Island, storytelling, survival, taonga, technology, Tīmaru, Volunteer, Rocket Brigade