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Some Chinese miners were rewarded with gold, but many remained poor kids and mum's and dad too.

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In 1862 Chinese gold miner
found thousands of Gold

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There was a gold rushes in Marlborough.

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In 1861, thousands of people flocked to Central Otago.

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I replaced unremarkable with average

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Gold mining is when you have a pick axe and other gear like tools. So like a Flash light or a Helmet.

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In 1865, there was a new gold rush that was happening ta the  West Coast.

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The Otago gold rush began with a man named Gabriel Read.

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Mostly gold miners from southern China was called New Zealand Sun Kum Shan .

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Gold was mostly found from  rock and sand in the riverbeds.

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gold mine

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Gold mining is the process of mining of gold or gold  orores

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Gold miners get there gold from Gabriel’s Gully.

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I don't know the words, Prospecting, Sluice Boxes and Plummeted. Prospecting means, you search for mineral deposits. Sluice boxes, I think Sluice boxes are used to Recover black sands and gold. Plummeted means It drops at full speed, or it just falls.

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interesting or surprising.

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unremarkable is like remarkable but  it

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Unremarkable means it's not really exciting, It's mostly boring. You can change the word unremarkable to uninterested. So like the opposite.

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Go to the forum and discuss this question:

What links can we make between gold miners immigrating to NZ and adventurers like Brando Yelavich and Laura Dekker?

Remember to use the strategies we have discussed and also the prompts provided.

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Find at least 3 words from the text which you do not know. Find out what they mean, and define them. Which strategy do you use to do this?

-Breaking the word down into smaller bits?
-Context cues (looking at words and meaning around the word)?
-Research?
-Another strategy?

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Choose an answer of one of your classmates and add to their idea. (Copy and paste their idea into your comment, and then add your thoughts).

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Summarise one idea from this text - put it into your own words. Try and choose an idea which isn't already up here.

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Replace the word 'unremarkable' in this sentence with another word:

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Replace the word 'unremarkable' in this sentence with another word:

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"The place - at the time just a creek bed in an unremarkable valley - became known as Gabriel's Gully." (p29)

Note: Choose a word different to what others have already chosen.

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What links can be made between gold miners immigrating to NZ, and adventurers like Brando Yelavich?

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What links can be made between gold miners immigrating to NZ, and those young soldiers who headed off to war?