This task is about learning how to find the meaning of the word 'grateful'.
Think about the word 'grateful'.
a) Where have you seen or heard this word used?
b) Use the word 'grateful' in a sentence:
c) What do you think 'grateful' means?
Read Up from the Ashes by Mahina-a-rangi Baker (pages 2 to 9, Choices journal, 2005).
d) The word 'grateful' on page 7 is associated with several things on that page.
For d) i) copy the sentences which describe what the narrator is grateful for into the left-hand column. Two examples have been done.
For d) ii) explain what the text you have selected tells you about the meaning of 'grateful'. Two examples have been done.
| i) Which words and phrases in the text tell you about what 'grateful' means? | ii) What do these words and phrases tell you 'grateful' means? |
| Page 7 "All of these things I am so grateful for." | This tells me that there are many things you can be grateful for, not just objects but experiences too. (student example) |
| Page 7 "I enjoy the memory of travelling on the back of a ute through the brisk morning of the Mount Titiraupenga forest in the search for the perfect totara (although I didn't enjoy the harsh windburn at the time)." | This tells me that you can be grateful for memories. And it tells me that things you don't enjoy at the time can become a memory you are grateful for (student example). |
| Page 7 | This tells me |
| Page 7 | This tells me |
| Page 7 | This tells me |
| Page 7 | This tells me |
| Page 7 | This tells me |
e) Now what do you think 'grateful' means? (Your answer might be different from what you wrote for c.)
f) Use the word 'grateful' in a new sentence:
g) Pause and think. Something I'm still wondering about the word 'grateful' is: