Learning to Sail
How does Maui react when Moana tries to learn sailing and wayfinding?
Maui is impatient and dismissive, but Moana keeps practicing and refuses to give up.
Answer: coconut-armored pirates who attack Moana and Maui Question: Who are...?
Questions: Who are the Kakamora?
Answer: The Realm of Monsters
Question: What is Lalotai?
Answer: Maui's human parents abandoned him. Q: What happened...?
Question: What happened to Maui when he was a baby?
Answer: A huge lava monster Question: Who is...?
Question: Who is Te Kā?
Answer: The part of a story in which problems, challenges, and conflicts become more intense, leading to the climax. Question: What is...?
Question: What is Rising Action?
Answer: stars, waves, wind, clouds, the sun, currents, and birds
What are natural clues Moana learns to observe while wayfinding?
Answer: What the Kakamora are trying to take
Question: What is the Heart of Te'Fiti?
Answer: Tamatoa, a giant coconut crab, has this important tool. Question: What is...?
Question: What is Maui’s magical fishhook?
Answer: magical powers and made Maui a demigod Question: What did the...?
Question: What did the gods give Maui after they found him?
Answer: During the battle, this object becomes cracked and damaged. What is...?
Question: What is Maui's fishhook?
All heroes face tests and trials, so they can prove their worthiness. Name a test or trial Moana has faced so far.
Possible Answers: the Kakamora attack, the journey to Lalotai, Tamatoa’s challenge, and the battle with Te Kā
Answer: navigating across the ocean by observing clues such as the stars, waves, wind, clouds, and the sun
Question: What is... ?
Question: What is wayfindinding?
Q: What does Moana do when the heart is taken during the attack?
A: She courageously pursues it and retrieves it, even though the situation is dangerous.
Answer: THis gives Maui the power to shapeshift and is important to his identity as a demigod. Question: What is...?
Question: What is Maui's magical fishhook?
Answer: These represent important parts of Maui's history, accomplishments, and identity. One of these also reflects Maui's thoughts and feelings. Question: What are...?
Question: What are Maui's tattoos?
Answer: Maui fears losing this because it gives him power and is closely connected to his identity. Question: What is...?
Question: What is the damaged fishhook?
Answer: Even though he is sometimes selfish or impatient, Maui teaches Moana sailing and wayfinding, shares knowledge, and helps her face dangers. Maui is one of these for Moana. Question: What is a... or an...?
Question: What is a mentor or an ally?
Q: How does Moana’s progress as a sailor show her growth as a leader?
A: She becomes more confident, takes initiative, learns from mistakes, and uses her own judgment instead of waiting for someone else to solve the problem.
A: Maui uses his strength and shapeshifting while Moana steers, protects the heart, and finds ways to outsmart the attackers. Question: How do...?
Q: How do Moana and Maui work together during the attack?
Answer: Shiny objects, beauty, attention, and showing off his collection Question: What does...?
Question: What does Tamatoa value most?
A: Because he was abandoned and feels insecure, Maui seeks approval and wants others to believe that he is important and heroic. Q: Why is Maui so concerned with...?
Q: Why is Maui so concerned with being admired?
Answer: Because he is overwhelmed by fear that the hook will break and that he will lose his powers, Maui does this. Question: What is...?
Question: What is abandon Moana?
A: Moana grows more confident in her abilities and begins taking responsibility, while Maui struggles to understand his identity beyond his powers, accomplishments, and need for approval. (Name these two topics.) Question: What are...?
Question: What are leadership and identity?
Answer: The type of boat Moana sails, according to Moana
Question: What is a _____?
Question: What is a canoe?
Q: How does Moana’s behavior during the Kakamora attack show she is a leader? A: Moana's behavior shows...
A: Moana's behavior shows she is brave, resourceful, determined, and willing to take responsibility when others need her help. These are qualities of a good leader.
A: Moana uses this to distract Tamatoa, helping Maui recover the hook. Question: What is Tamatoa's...?
Question: What is Tamatoa’s vanity and love of shiny things?
Answer: Even after he retrieves his hook, Maui has trouble doing this because confidence depends partly on his magical power. When he struggles, his insecurity becomes visible, and he must face the possibility that others may not see him as powerful. Question: What is...?
Question: What is shapeshifting?
Instead of facing the danger and supporting Moana, Maui protects himself and runs away. These two emotions are controlling Maui (name one). Question: What is...?
Question: What is fear and insecurity?
Answer: THis person guides the film’s overall storytelling, performances, and visual style. Question: Who is the...?
Question: Who is the director?