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 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 5b- Poetry Puzzle

Activity 5b- Poetry Puzzle

1. An Old Lady of Brooking

- She could bake sixty pies

- Without even going or looking

- There was an old lady of Brooking

- All quite the same size

- Who had a great genius for cooking;

An Old Lady of Brooking

There was an old lady of Brooking,

Who had a great genius for cooking;

She could bake sixty pies,

All quite the same size,

Without even going or looking.

2. The Railway Official

- It cut him-it cut him in two!

- Though he smiled and bowed

- A railway official of Skewe

- That engine was proud

- Met an engine one day that he knew

The Railway Official

A railway official of Skewe,

Met an engine one day that he knew,

Though he smiled and bowed,

That engine was proud,

It cut him-it cut him in two!

3. A Young Lad of St Just
- Who ate apple pie till he bust;

- What finished him off was the crust

- It wasn't the fru-it

- That caused him to do it

- There was a young lad of St Just

A Young Lad of St Just

There was a young lad of St Just,

Who ate apple pie till he bust,

It wasn't the fru-it,

That caused him to do it,

What finished him off was the crust.