Description
During the First World War, a group of miners from New Zealand joined the New Zealand Tunnelling Company and travelled to France where they created a complex series of tunnels to aid the war effort.
The three lesson overviews focus on:
- Comprehension and inferencing, supporting students to locate information, make meaning, and draw conclusions from the text;
- The author’s use of language and structure, exploring how word choice, sentence structure, and text features shape meaning; and
- Author’s purpose and themes, encouraging students to think critically about ideas, messages, and viewpoints.
Themes explored include: First World War, tunnels, New Zealand Tunnelling Company, Arras tunnels, non- fiction, history, geophones, Battle of Arras, underground soldiers, hiding place, miners, New Zealand History
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