RIC-0205 Discovering Poetry

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Summer Berries This poem is about Themes Style Curriculum Links the berry fruits of summer taste, texture, variety, sensory pleasure Nursery rhyme style The poem includes repeated vowel sounds and internal rhymes (assonance). It experiments playfully with words and variations on words. There is a nonsense verse element, with a description and monologue section in the last seven lines. health, nutrition Page 6 1. Real – blueberry, loganberry, boisenberry, gooseberry etc. Imaginary – jackberry, looseberry, wilderberry, snappleberry, glowberry etc. 2. sour/ours, near/earn, more/Rome, eat/tea 3. merry, glow 4. Teacher check 5. Happy, jolly, carefree mood, festive feelings 6. Teacher check • What beneficial plants grow wild where you live? What makes them beneficial? What is difficult to cultivate in your area? What fruits and vegetables have to be imported and why? • What is genetic engineering? What are the benefits and disadvantages of genetically engineering produce? Small-group Work Students choose from the following topics: – Noxious weeds – Edible wild food – Composting – Local crop farming ©R.I.C. Publications Low Resolution Images Display Copy Have relevant resources available (library, Internet, topic books) for the students to use to research and write about their topic. Reports or posters can be created and presented to the class. Individual Writing Students write an original nursery rhyme on a subject of their choice. Students write a short story that begins: ‘I peered through the window and froze! I could hardly believe what I saw growing in there!‘ R.I.C. Publications www.ricgroup.com.au 5 Discovering Poetry ISBN 978-1-86311-834-7
Summer Berries Summer Berries is a nonsense poem written in a nursery rhyme style. It experiments playfully with words and variations on words. The effect comes from repetition of the word ‘berry’ and the rhymes inside the lines. Summer Berries Summer season hot and merry Eat a fat and purple berry Thin berry thick berry Come along and pick berry Blackberry jackberry In a paper sack berry Raspberry blueberry How do you do berry! Loganberry boisenberry Gooseberry loose berry Elderberry youngerberry Wildberry wilderberry crab apple snapple berry Merry little cherry berry Flower berry sour berry Ooh yuk! Sour berry! Dried berry sweet and airy Growing wild near the dairy Bumble berry rowanberry Bilberry still berry Sloe berry glow berry Luscious luscious strawberries Are there any more berries? I adore strawberries Strawberries strawberries Squashy with no core berries Mouth staining, it’s raining Juice! Juice! Juice! ©R.I.C. Publications Low Resolution Images Display Copy R.I.C. Publications www.ricgroup.com.au 6 Discovering Poetry ISBN 978-1-86311-834-7
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