RIC-0205 Discovering Poetry

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This poem is about Themes Style Curriculum Links the beach and marine environment beach enjoyment, summer, sea sports Eulogy. Sun, Sea and Sand is in the manner of a eulogy which admires or praises a person, object or place. Four-line verses written alternately in rhyming couplets interspersed with a different rhyme patterns, emphasise the rhythm of the words. environment. science, healthy/safety Page 55 1. basked, sundial, huge, upright 2. (a) The sand is warm beneath you like a cushion or a nest (b) Teacher check (c) Teacher check 3. Splash, sunburst, spray, paddle 4. Sunscreen, sunhat, dinghy, surfboard, sandwiches, sandshoes, sandal – teacher check adjectives 5. Teacher check (an atmosphere of fun, pleasure, sensory, tactile experience.) 6. (a) Verse 2 – aaba, verse 4 – abcb, verse 6 – abcb. (b) Poet wanted variety for different textures and sense of business and activity • The poem suggests a variety of activities that can be done in this particular environment. What other kinds of environments offer diverse experiences? • Is there another aspect of the shoreline that the poem has not covered (e.g. rock-pools)? Brainstorm compound words beginning with ‘rock’ (rock-bottom, rock-breaking, rock-hard). Small-group Work • Students select one of the environments below and brainstorm words to describe it. Write an advertisement praising this environment and inviting tourists to experience it, riverland Outback desert Barrier Reef sheep station student choice • Students select one of the three verses in the poem beginning with either sun, sea or sand. They use this as a model to compose a four-line verse of their own, using their own compound words (e.g. up, down, rain). Each group will need a dictionary. ©R.I.C. Publications Low Resolution Images Display Copy Individual Writing • Students write letters to their parents, inviting them to a picnic at a particular place. The letter explains why they have selected this place. • Students write instructions for building a sandcastle for someone who has never been to the beach. The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll The Beach by William Hart-Smith R.I.C. Publications www.ricgroup.com.au 53 Discovering Poetry ISBN 978-1-86311-834-7
This poem is in the manner of a eulogy, which admires or praises a person, object or place. Verses 1, 3 and 5 have rhyming pairs of lines (couplets). Verses 2, 4 and 6 have an abcb rhyme pattern. Sun, sea and sand have been used as prefixes in compound words. Sun, Sea and Sand When you go to the beach you can have a good time Whether it’s wet or whether it’s fine There’s lots you can do, but it’s much better fun If you go to the beach on a day when there’s sun Sunscreen, sunhat, sunglow, sun shower Everything glowing like a yellow sunflower Suntan, sunburn, sunburst, sunset Sundial time and a warm sun shower Take a dinghy or a surfboard into the tide If you stay upright you might get a ride You can swim, paddle, splash in the waves by the shore Sea water is what beaches are for Seashells, seashore, seabird, seaspray Swimming in the waves with the biting sea bugs Seaweed, seahorse, sea mist, seasick Seagulls flying and fat sea-slugs You’ve swum and paddled and basked in the sun And eaten the sandwiches, every one The sand is warm beneath you like a cushion or a nest ‘Cause it’s really SAND that beaches do best Sandwich, sandal, sandhill, sand-fight Sand in your sandshoes and a big sand parcel Sandpaper, sand hopper, sandstorm, sandfly Sand in your hair and a huge sandcastle! ©R.I.C. Publications Low Resolution Images Display Copy R.I.C. Publications www.ricgroup.com.au 54 Discovering Poetry ISBN 978-1-86311-834-7
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