RIC-0205 Discovering Poetry
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These poems are about<br />
Themes<br />
Style<br />
Curriculum Links<br />
moving home, changing school and making new friends<br />
belonging, change, loss, adapting to new circumstances<br />
narratives—one in monologue form<br />
Narrative poems tell or recite a story (My Friend). A monologue is speech<br />
addressed to oneself. It states or clarifies feelings and opinions (Moving).<br />
Both poems are about change, adjustment, endings and beginnings.<br />
society and environment – experiencing a new culture health – friendship<br />
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1. friendly, bright, helpful, dependable, sociable, clever, confident<br />
2. This person is angry at her/his parents. Doesn’t want to leave home, friends and school. He/She is<br />
feeling unsettled and anxious.<br />
3. Positive attitudes to school<br />
4. Teacher check<br />
5. Parents should have asked him/her how he/she felt, before selling the house, which is an important<br />
part of his/her security.<br />
6. a b c d – lines one and three rhyme, as do lines two and four.<br />
7. Teacher check<br />
8. Teacher check<br />
9. (a) drey (b) igloo (c) den/earth (d) lodge/teepee/wigwam<br />
(e) eyrie (f) shell (g) lodge (h) form<br />
• What does it feel like to move away from everything familiar? Brainstorm words<br />
to describe feelings. What adjustments would you need to make if you were<br />
moving to a new country? (language, diet, customs, shopping). What challenges<br />
face immigrant children settling into a new school? What behaviour is helpful<br />
to them?<br />
Small-group Work<br />
• Students design an ideal bedroom, deciding what it would contain. They should<br />
justify all the contents in terms of their activities and present their joint decisions<br />
to the class.<br />
Individual Writing<br />
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• Students write a page recalling or imagining their own experiences of moving.<br />
Ask them if they had to move home and leave friends behind, would their feelings<br />
be similar to those expressed in Moving? Or would they be glad to leave?<br />
• Ask students what it is about Emma that makes other people like her. Who do<br />
they admire? Students can then write a paragraph explaining why. They should<br />
give the person a fictitious name, to protect his or her privacy.<br />
• Use anthologies of poetry in the school library to find two other poems with<br />
similar themes. Students can write a paragraph comparing the way each poet<br />
has tackled the theme. Create a class poster using the paired titles of all the<br />
poems with similar themes that the class can find. Ask the school librarian to<br />
help by making these poetry books available for use by the class during a set<br />
period.<br />
R.I.C. Publications www.ricgroup.com.au 25 <strong>Discovering</strong> <strong>Poetry</strong><br />
ISBN 978-1-86311-834-7
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