Engagement

This is just from Mr Wood's work outside of Room 14

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Become observers

AO: LANGUAGE FEATURES-Use a range of language features appropriately, showing an increasing understanding of their effects.
INDICATORS
Uses a range of oral, written, and visual features to create meaning and effect and to sustain interest
Uses a a range of vocabulary for precise meaning.

If I could set you a homework task of noticing something I would. I would say...this weekend, when you find yourself anywhere, stop and just notice...then you would be ready for this next task. What is the difference between seeing and noticing? Do we just need to do this task so that we can be better noticers next time? Which comes first?

The goal is to notice the 'significance' in something...anything. 'Significant' means 'suggesting a deeper meaning' If we notice the significance in something we may find that we create imagery in greater detail. We can then call on this in other forms of writing.

Poetry is all about noticing things. I have included 4 different styles so that hopefully you'll find a form that you like and use to inspire you. (From now on we'll call these Mentor Texts.) You may find some of the language a little tricky however, it's the structure we are looking at.


The Sea by Laura Ranger (7 years) Active nouns used as a language device
Street Lights by Ashleigh Young. Uneven stanzas-intense figurative language
Things I have loved by Rupert Brooke. The language may be a bit unfamiliar, but its has a framework for personal lists of things. Each thing is given a variety of descriptors-Sights, sounds, tastes and smells
From my Diary, July 1914 by Wilfred Owen. Also a list of things, things in their places and very specifically structured. Its has some delicious lines (highlighted)

Questions

What did all of these poets needed to have done to write these poems?

In what way have they created 'impact'? 

Could we construct criteria so that we know when we are successful?


Look closely at the seed pod-what words could could be use to describe texture, appearance...?
Frame these as activated nouns?
What does it remind you of? (figurative language simile, metaphor, personification)

SUCCESS CRITERIA
How do we know we've been successful?
1. include 4 nouns (from observation
2. make the nouns do something 
3. start each new description on a new line
4. extend each line to make more sense (it may include a who, what, where, why, when, how)

Check out some of our Poems below. What do you think?

Zahne's


Kye's

Joseph's

Zaid's