5. Practice
• I usually go nuts when…
• When I found out that I was accepted, I
went nuts and…
• When I was at the concert, I went nuts
and…
6. “This is our heritage,” says Manutea Owen, a
former canoe champion and a revered hero in
his home island of Huahine.
7. From about 1300 to 800 B.C., the Lapita people
colonized islands that stretch over millions of
square kilometers, including the Solomon
Islands, the Santa Cruz Islands, Vanatu, Fiji,
New Caledonia, and Samoa.
8. There was an interval of around 1,000 years
before the civilization of the Polynesians,
descendants of the Lapita, launched a new
period of exploration.
9. Then, they outdid the Lapita with unbelievable feats
of navigation, expanding the boundaries of their
oceanic world until it was many times the size of that
explored by their ancestors.
10. Then, they outdid the Lapita with unbelievable feats
of navigation, expanding the boundaries of their
oceanic world until it was many times the size of that
explored by their ancestors.
11. There was one stubborn question for which
archeology has yet to provide any answers.
12. How did the Lapita and early Polynesian pioneers
accomplish, many times over, a feat that is
analogous to the moon landing?
13. Unfortunately, no one had found an intact
Lapita or early Polynesian canoe that might
reveal how they were sailed.
14. It is also conceivable that Lapita sailors
followed the smoke from distant volcanoes to
new islands.
15. It disrupts world weather in a variety of ways,
but one of its effects is to cause trade winds in
the South Pacific to weaken or to reverse
direction and blow to the east.
16. Lapita and Polynesian Migration
• Video
Why were the Lapita the first people to colonize Oceania?
17. Video Follow-up Questions
According to the professor..
1.Why didn’t people before the Lapitas explore beyond the
Solomon Islands?
2.What allowed the Lapita people to explore more than what
had been explored before?
3.What role might the Lapita’s ranked society have played in
their exploration?
18. Reading and Oral Summarizing
-5B Text
• Read 1 paragraph silently
• Orally summarize the paragraph with your
partner
• Repeat these steps until you have finished
the text
( 25 minutes)
• Let Nikki know that you are ready for the
discussion questions
