Teacher-only planning companion for Te Tiriti Text Comparison Inquiry. Use this page to keep Treaty comparison accurate, mana-enhancing, and tied to systems, power, and civic life rather than a shallow “spot the difference” exercise.
Treaty comparison teaching is strongest when students are comparing relationships and meanings, not just vocabulary. Keep asking what kind of authority and responsibility each text appears to shape.
Systems shape how people and groups organise themselves: rights, responsibilities, power, fairness.
The inquiry positions Te Tiriti and the English Treaty inside questions of power, authority, and relationship rather than as disconnected historical facts.
Te Mātaiaho Social Studies `TM-SS-3-U1`.
Interpreting past experiences and actions using historical evidence and taking account of context, values, and the information available at the time.
The article prompts and final judgement section ask students to interpret wording differences as historical evidence, not as trivia.
Te Mātaiaho Social Studies `TM-SS-3-ANZH-D1`.
Examining historical, cultural, and social context and drawing conclusions about meaning from language and text choices.
The handout supports English text-study because students must interpret how wording shapes meaning across the two texts. That work becomes stronger when mātauranga Māori and Treaty relationship concepts are treated as central rather than decorative context.
Te Mātaiaho English `ENGLISH-18e4b01dbf`.