School Journal Level 3 August 2013
Teacher support materials (TSM) are available for all the following texts in this issue of the School Journal:
| TSM | ||
| Stories | Egbert and the Princess | ✔ |
| Poems | Drift | ✔ |
| Articles | 59.5 Degrees South | ✔ |
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59.5 Degrees South
by Sarah Wilcox
59.5 degrees south is the GPS position where the author dropped an Argo float into the Southern Ocean. This article is a recount of her journey on the NIWA ship, Kaharoa.
Drift
by Denis Glover
This beautiful poem by one of New Zealand’s best-known poets, Denis Glover (most famous for “The Magpies”), describes objects drifting on the ocean.
Egbert and the Princess
by Katie Furze
This amusing story takes standard fairy tale characters and turns them on their heads. The author uses the readers’ prior knowledge of Western dragon–princess stories to create humour by changing the stereotypes, which in turn upsets the readers’ expectations of events and reactions.
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