Story Starters Template

 Story Starters

Challenge: choose one of the story starters and complete it in your own words, or make your own story up!

Instructions: Choose a story starter. Watch the video that has been provided, as well as reading the story starter that is already written. Write the name of the character you are writing about below. Also, copy and paste the story starter in the table below. Once you have done that, finish the story off. Make it creative, use descriptive language, paragraphs, and correct sentence structures.

Name of Person chosen	Story Starter (copy and paste from slides)
Dame Whina Cooper	Dame Whina Cooper, leader in the Hokianga region. Her people looked up to her. Whina Cooper thought of ways to protest, stand up for her peoples rights, as well as get their land back. 1975 came, they were going to peacefully protest. They were going to march.

Continue the story here: 

→Dame Whina Cooper, leader in the Hokianga region. Her people looked up to her. Whina Cooper thought of ways to protest, stand up for her peoples rights, as well as get their land back. 1975 came, they were going to peacefully protest. This Māori land march or hīkoi march led by Ngāpuhi leader Dame Whina Cooper was to protest against the loss of Māori land. On arriving in Wellington on 13 October, they presented a petition signed by 60,000 people to the Prime Minister Bill Rowling