Return of the Moa?

Return of the Moa

Unistructural: 

1. What is the purpose of this story? (Entertain, inform) To spread news of DNA about Moa’s and how they could be de-extinct.

2. What words does the author use to describe events and actions? de-extinct.

3. What is the setting and who are the ‘characters’? Moa’s

Multistructural:

1. Summarise the main points of the story. They have found that there is DNA of Moa’s. And it is possible that we could bring back Moa’s.

2. What are 3 things that you remember from the text? One species that can’t be brought back is the dinosaur, Dinosaurs lived till at least 65 million years ago. They’ve missed the de-extinction bus by around 64.5 million years.

 Relational:

Dinosaurs got extinct because of the huge meteorite that hit earth 66 million years ago. However Moa’s are different. They got extinct by people hunting them down. From what scientists think is that Moa’s got extinct around 1440 - 1445 AD. The last confirmed Huia sighting was in 1907. However there have been sightings of Huia’s in the wild in the 1960s by a few people. But the last confirmed sighting was in 1907.