Activity 6d- Write a Piece of Performance Poetry

Activity 6d- Write a Piece of Performance Poetry

The dragon runs towards the cliff,

He flaps his wings and soars into the sky,

The future is depending on him,

On the ground, his friends wave goodbye.

Skies boom with thunder as the clouds roll in,

Rain drops splatter onto his snout,

The dragon dodges a bolt of lightning,

Then he feels the doubt

Would he make it to the fantasy land,

Before the world plunged into darkness?

Did it even exist?

This story-told land?

For days, he flies on,

The skies were thickening,

The days were just like night,

For the sun had stopped it's shining.

The world's end was dangerously near,

When at last, he sighted the land,

Shining like a gem, despite the darkness,

He proceeded to land.

The darkness swoops in like a bird,

Cloaking the last glimmers of light,

The dragon flies, furiously, towards the tower of the Word...

Will he make it?

Can he save the world?

Or has the end arrived?

 

Activity 4b- Do a SWOT Analysis

Activity 4b- Do a SWOT Analysis

Activity 1g- Write an Acrostic Poem About Yourself

Activity 1g- Write an Acrostic Poem About Yourself

Judgemental at times

Early Bird

Stresses out alot

Sensitive to negative feelings

Is quiet  

Curious about a lot of things

Anxious about what people think

Likes to play musical instruments

At times, quite strange

Activity 5a- Write a Poem in Synthesis with the Theme of the Given Pictures

Activity 5a- Write a Poem in Synthesis with the Theme of the Given Pictures

The Old Man

The old man quietly reads,
Resting in his rocking chair,
He studys various seeds,
And grows some plants of rare

His wrinkled hands are just like bark,
Weathered from a lifetime of use,
These hands feed a little brown lark,
And set an orange butterfly loose

The old man- the human tree,
His wrinkled skin resembling bark,
His eyes reflect a still grey sea,
As he walks to his plants, movement stark

The human tree provides a home,
To insects great and small,
He studies them in a small, green dome,
Counting legs and antannae in all

We pass his house again one day,
Wondering what he was doing,
Wondering what words he would say,
Wondering what plant oil he was brewing.


The man is planting a shiny seed,
A special tree, I'm told,
He unroots a flowering weed,
And buries the seed of gold
Then the old man quietly reads,
Resting in his rocking chair,
He clasps some various seeds
This man is quite of rare.

Activity 5d- Write a Poem as a Script

Activity 5d- Write a Poem as a Script

The Mask                                                                     From 100 Best Poems on Life Melody: A mask of plastic happiness often covers her sadness                 Her beliefs hidden from most Cassie: Afraid of, but willing to face the unknown              Wondering where her place is in this life Melody: She has come close to sharing herself                  Never completely revealing anything to anyone                  Feelings of invisible chains corner her Cassie: When she dreams, reality shatters before her very eyes               Accomplishments she strives for just at hands grasp               She feels lost sometimes, not yet finding her notch in this world Melody: At times the glimmer in her calm eyes slowly disappears                 But within her heart a silent flame burns her inside and out Cassie: She roams day by day, playing roles              Strength unknowingly resides in her Melody: History repeats itself once again                  The translucent veil she so proudly wears Cassie: Little by little answers will come, pushing it aside Melody: One day there will be no more mask for her to wear Cassie: One day her beliefs will be known Melody: One day she'll know her place in this life Cassie: One day she will share herself Melody and Cassie together: One this mask will be no more

Activity 6e- Analyse the Parallels Between the Picture and the Poem

Activity 6e- Analyse the Parallels Between the Picture and the Poem

Response

The subject matter in both the poem and the picture share one similar action: protesting against something.

 In the poem, the poet has written a poem on behalf of a group of students who are rebelling and protesting against the treatment of their school. The reader is able to understand the subject matter due to the strong, informal language used by the students, the use of metaphors (e.g- All in all, it's just another brick in the wall...) and repetition.

The picture also displays some sort of protest against something. We can tell this by looking at  the position and direction of the crowds' arms, their closed fists and the facial expressions of the few people we can see. However, we are unable to tell what subject or person the crowd is protesting at.

Activity 6f- How are Teenagers Represented in the Given Poems?

Activity 6b- How are Teenagers Represented in the given Poems?

Through these given poems, teenagers are represented as wild and rebellious towards adults. All four poems describe adolescents as having a rebellion towards adults' expectations; not wanting to follow the adults, wearing different clothes that change every month, wanting to escape expectations etc...

The first poem is based on an adult's point of view, describing the teenagers on the bus and comparing them to their past experiences as a teenager. The poet states that teenagers seem to have no trouble or fuss about entering adolescence, in contrast to their 'awkward ages' she and her peers felt during their teenage years.

 

The second poem is based on the perspective of a teenager created by an adult poet. The person speaking is a teenager who is rebellious towards adults, wants to behave in a disrespectful manner and has a sneaky character. The poet even makes the teenager in the poem poke fun at his name (towards the end, the poet's name, Steve Turner, becomes a subject of mocking).

The third poem, titled Clothes, is written in a teenager's point of view. The poet first remembers her mother telling her how clothes were different in her time, responding with a laugh. Immediately afterwards, the poet wonders about the clothes of teenagers in the future, whether they would be laughing at the clothes of today, just like the poet laughing at her mother's clothing styles.

The fourth and final poem, Anthem for Youth, is written through the eyes of a teenager. The poet expresses a strong message to adults who want teenagers to 'grow up'  faster.

Activity 1f- Read the Poem and Answer the Given Questions

Activity 1f- Read the Poem and Answer the Given Questions



1. What is the person in this poem doing?

The person in this poem is writing Christmas cards while trying to remember the people he rediscovered in his address book.

2. Identify any similes or metaphors in this poem.

- 'The people in our lives that sail like green leaves and disappear like snow.'

3. Answer the poets question, "Where do they go, the people in our lives?" What do you think?

I think people in our lives go to either new places (moved away), have had new occupations or in some way, have lost communication with the poet over time.

4. Why does the poet send cards to people to the people he can't remember?

The poet sends cards to the people he can't remember because he wants to thank them for any care or kindness they've shown to him that he may have forgotten about.

5. Gives a summary of this poems effectiveness. What impact does this poem have on you?

This poem gives you a feeling that you are interacting with and feeling the emotions of the poet due to the use of first-person past tense and a few similes.

Activity 4c- Write a Comparison of the Given Song and Poem

Activity 4c- Compare the Given Song and

Poem

Song...

Poem...

Response
Comparing the given poem and song, I  believe the poem conveys its meaning better than the given song.

The poem, (actually a song in poetic format) takes the reader through time from the girl's departure to her life afterwards. It makes use of rhyming devices, dialogue lines and first person perspective (of the parents). The chorus occurs at three stages of the poem, all varied in some way. The chorus also uses an echoing effect to add to the subject matter of the poem.

The song on the other hand, is a reflective song based on a single scene, the scene of a loved one leaving the poet. Only two verses vary from the chorus, the first and the third stanza. The song does not personally describe the person who is leaving, but rather the emotional effect they had on the poet. The song's meaning is interpreted through the use of repetition.