Rona and the Moon

 Retell: Rona and The Moon

Retell the Myth and Legend about Rona and the Moon.

Planning:

Characters	Rona, Moon, Husband and sons.
Beginning - how does it start?	Rona was a beautiful woman who lived with her husband and their two sons in a little koingo beside the sea.
Middle - what is happening?	As it began to go dark and the heter cooking stones glowed red, Rona could hear her family singing as they returned across the boy in their canoe.
End - how does it end?	There, on the face of the full moon, was Rona, with the ngaio tree and gourds in her hands!

Make sure you use descriptive language to make the story more interesting. Pull the readers in to read YOUR writing, make it fun!

Rona was a beautiful woman who lived with her husband and their two sons in a little koingo beside the sea. Rona’s husband loved her dearly, but sometimes her bad temper and her angry way of growling at him and their boys upset them all. They loaded their nets, lines, hooks and bait into a canoe and paddled away. The next day, Rona began to prepare the hangi to cook the meal in. First, she cleaned and cut the ashes, embers and cooking stones from the pit dug into the ground that she would prepare the meal in. As it began to go dark and the heter cooking stones glowed red, Rona could hear her family singing as they returned across the boy in their canoe.  Rona was in so much pain, and so angry at the moon for hiding his light, that she shouted at him, ``POKOKOHUA”, which means “Boil your head!” This was a terrible curse, and a great insult.  When Rona’s family returned from their fishing trip, there was no sign of her. Their meal lay uncooked by the flickering flames of the oven. It wasn’t until they looked up at the night sky that they realised their angry wife and mother had been rude once too often. There, on the face of the full moon, was Rona, with the ngaio tree and gourds in her hands!