Here is the poem 'The Town' written by James K Baxter, that we are basing our Memoir writing on this week.
Read the poem and identify:
one structural feature (how the sentences are put together) or
one language feature (verbs, adjectives, nouns) etc.
that is used in this poem.
"The town was usual enough; it had
A creek, a bridge, a beach, a sky
Over it, and even a small tin church
I never went to. My brother, my cousins and
I
Did what boys do - dozed in the hot
Schoolroom, made bows and arrows, dodged
the mad
Boatbuilder, crept like rabbits through the
black
Under-runners with a weak torch,
Burnt dry rushes, wrestled or swam
Doing nothing important"
- James K. Baxter
Mrs Morgan do we write it down or just identify it.
ReplyDeleteBy Zara
write it down
DeleteThe starting such as. The ____ was usual enough.
ReplyDeleteBy James
The did what ____ do =boys or girls do e.g make bow and arrows. By Fletcher
ReplyDeleteThe poem hooked me in from the beginning e.g the town was usual enough.
ReplyDeleteBy Jacob
i liked how they said did what boys do and the town was usual enough. by Bailey
ReplyDeleteHow they said usual enough and how the said that they made bows and arrows
ReplyDeleteBy Caleb
That they made bows and arrows
ReplyDeleteBy Caleb
They start every new line with a capital even if it is in the same sentence above it.
ReplyDeleteBy Mia
I liked how it said the town was usual enough. I also liked how it says what they did and who they did it with.
ReplyDeleteI liked how the writer made you have to pause to get the main effect of the poem. By Alex
ReplyDeleteI liked how the reader hooked me in by saying the town was usual enough.
ReplyDeleteI like how he has used good vocabulary like dozed,dodged,crept,weak.By Natasha
ReplyDeleteI like how he said my brother my cousins and I did what boys do....
ReplyDeleteBy Arwa
I liked the detailed words and all the information of the story.I got a very interesting picture in my head and my favourite part was when the author said crept like rabbits through the black under-runners with a weak torch.It was a brilliant story.By Nathan
ReplyDeleteEvery line starts with a capital letter
ReplyDeleteBy Olivia
i liked how it said the town was usual enough it had what ever and described those things. By Freya ;]
ReplyDeleteThe sturcture is : the ~~~ was usual enough it had
ReplyDelete~~~~~~~~ my ~~, my~~~~and I did what ~~~ do
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doing nothing important
Grace
I also like it because you can share your memory to other in a poem.
DeleteGrace
I liked about this piece of how the sturcture of the story becauses it's decribeding where he is and what he is doing. By Zara
DeleteThe sturcture of this poem is.
ReplyDeleteThe _____ was usual enough;it had
A________ my _____ my _____ and I
Did what ________ do
___________
Doing nothing important.
By Cole
ReplyDeleteA part of the structure is that every line starts with a capital letter.
ReplyDeleteBy Imogen
One thing is the verbs like DOZED in the hot school room.
ReplyDeleteBy Jasleen
One thing of the structure is that even if it wasn't a new sentence he still started every first line with a capital.
ReplyDeleteBy Emma
One structural feature is that he put a sentence on two different lines e.g. 'a small tin church
ReplyDeleteI never went to.'
One language feature is that he used a similie to describe HOW he crept throught the black Under-runners. By Teeshan.
A part of the structure is at the start,it says the town was usual enough,it had.
ReplyDeleteBy Jadon
One of the structural feature is that all the lines start with a capital letter even if it is the same sentince. By Liam b
ReplyDeletePart of the structure is every line started with a CAPITAL letter.
ReplyDeleteBy Tayla
One of the structural features is " The _____ was usual enough, It had;
ReplyDeleteA _______, a ________, a _______, and _______________I never went to."
By Ben.
One of the structural features was what you needed to say what happen
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