More May poetry
The writers
Juan, Marg, Helene, Terry, Cath, Roslyn, Cath,
Di with a quick visit from David C
The words of the day
Garrulous –
talkative
Magnitude –
importance
Disintegrate –
fall apart
Faux pas – a
social blunder
Specious –
plausible
Nexus – a tie,
connection, link
Contrariwise – on
the other hand
Pontificate –
express opinion in a pompous and dogmatic way
Writing from words of the day
The writers did
not disintegrate with the magnitude of the task and created a range of stories
as follows; Roslyn – The meeting, Marg – Heard everywhere, Cath – It had begun,
Di – People in power, Helene – Political characters, Terry – an argument and
Juan – Love and hope.
Using the bush
theme the writers read out the following homework poems and stories - Marg -
The kangaroo and billy tea, Roslyn – Blue mountains 5 short poems, Juan – A
dry country, Terry – A trip away, Helene – Bush life and Di – A wobbly walk
way.
Terry read out Clancy
@the overflow based on the poem Clancy of the Overflow by A B Patterson.
Roslyn read out “The
noble old tree” written by Juan
Haiku poetry
We explored Haiku
poetry a traditional form of Japanese poetry consisting of 3 lines. The first
and last lines have 5 syllables and the middle line 7 syllables. The lines
rarely rhyme. This exercise kept us quiet working hard and counting.
Homework
A poem about a
Faux pas
