Life,
is like a rollercoaster ride.
somtimes you go up,
sometimes you go down.
Life,
is like a piece of paper.
It is filled with many colors,
colours that you decide.
Life,
is like a bowl of soup.
A soup that contains,
salt, sugar, pepper and vinegar.
Life is an adventure, enjoy it.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Sound Poem
I heard the owls hooting in the dark.
I heard the sheep bleating beyond the hill.
I heard the wolves howling in the night.
I heard the sparrows chirping in the dark sky.
I heard the dogs whining right outside the door.
I heard the horses neighing in the stables.
I heard the bulls troting in the open fields.
I heard the bees buzzing round my head.
I heard the frogs croaking at the ponds.
I heard the mice scattering in the kitchen.
I heard the roosters cock-a-doodle-do on the wall.
I heard the turkeys gobble near the wall.
I heard the pigeons cooing over the roof.
I heard the ducks quacking in the pond.
I heard the pigs oinking in the slaughter house.
I heard the cats meowing near the fishbowl.
I heard the sheep bleating beyond the hill.
I heard the wolves howling in the night.
I heard the sparrows chirping in the dark sky.
I heard the dogs whining right outside the door.
I heard the horses neighing in the stables.
I heard the bulls troting in the open fields.
I heard the bees buzzing round my head.
I heard the frogs croaking at the ponds.
I heard the mice scattering in the kitchen.
I heard the roosters cock-a-doodle-do on the wall.
I heard the turkeys gobble near the wall.
I heard the pigeons cooing over the roof.
I heard the ducks quacking in the pond.
I heard the pigs oinking in the slaughter house.
I heard the cats meowing near the fishbowl.
Reflections on term 3
I feel that i improved quite a lot in term 3. My test jumped from C6 to A2 I do not know how i did that but i realise that Mr. Lundberg's class actually helped me alot.
I realise that LA tests are not hard as long as you listen in class and follow what the teacher teaches. I also feel that Mr. Lundberg helps the class alot in OP. He thought very hard for a way to help students speak up to earn Oral patrticpation marks. He used a method calles "Pass-the-ball". It is a method whereby when he asks a question everybody needs to raise their hand and he will pick one of the student. When the student does not know the answer he wil pass the question on to another student in this way all the students get to answer or at least say "I do not know".
In term 3 we did poetry, I learnt how to analyse a poem using the ten steps Mr. lunberg taught us. I also learnt many figurative languages. I enjoyed my LA lessons.
I realise that LA tests are not hard as long as you listen in class and follow what the teacher teaches. I also feel that Mr. Lundberg helps the class alot in OP. He thought very hard for a way to help students speak up to earn Oral patrticpation marks. He used a method calles "Pass-the-ball". It is a method whereby when he asks a question everybody needs to raise their hand and he will pick one of the student. When the student does not know the answer he wil pass the question on to another student in this way all the students get to answer or at least say "I do not know".
In term 3 we did poetry, I learnt how to analyse a poem using the ten steps Mr. lunberg taught us. I also learnt many figurative languages. I enjoyed my LA lessons.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
The poem i am going to do on today is: Snapshotland
Snapshotland
In Snapshotland everyone is happy all the time.
It is the promised land where people sit with flasks of tea
on smooth sand by a flat sea and smile and smile and smile.
The sun shines all day long and every day in Kodachrome
or sepia on sandboys and sandgirls who never
stop smiling from the time they first appear, with buckets,
in crisp, gingham pinafores and bonnets on the sea-shore.
Lovers stay in love forever; married couples never
grow tired of each other; everything is always just right.
The dolphins know exactly when to leap into the air
and stay there for the permanent delight of passengers
aboard the pleasure-boat which never passes out of sight.
Nobody in Snapshotland grows old unless they want to,
judging by the way they go on smiling so, in deck-chairs,
on the beach, or in old-fashioned gardens with lavender
and grandchildren here and there - and no one dies, ever.
Even if they don't appear later, the people are still
always there, smiling through the lavender and dolphins
and the buckets full of pebbles on the same sea-shore.
By Sylvia Kantaris
After reading this poem, I am going to use this 10 steps to analyse it.
1)Forget what the poem may or may not mean, or what it may be about
2)Look at the title and jot down about half a dozen things that it suggest to you.
3)Read the poem once quickly and then several times more slowly. Try to hear the poem aloud in your head.
4)Make a list of all those things which force their attention on you or which catch your interest for one reason or another. You might jot down unusual/odd/striking words, rhymes or repetition/patterns/contrasts,etc.
5)Look at and list any features of language used in the poem, e.g. no capital letters; no full stops at all the line-end; presence/absence of adverbs/adjectives; all verbs are either active/passive; tenses-all past
except the last line, etc
6)Try to find groups of words e.g.
(a) All similes make reference to animals/death/plants etc
(b) All the first words of lines are conjunctions etc
7)Look at your lists, notes and groups. Do you see any pattern taking shape?
8)Read the poem again and try to make intelligent guesses of what the poem may mean.
9)Answer the following questions:
a) Who is 'speaking' the poem? Is it the poet or persona?
b)Who is the poem 'spoken' to? Is it a particular person, to the poet himself or to the public in general?
c)What is the speaker's attitude to that audience? Is it angry,sincere,joking or teasing?
d)What is the poet's attitude to his audience?
e) Why is the poem organized in the way it is?
f)What is the effect of all the things you have noted at Steps 2, 4, 5 and 6?
10)Now if you wish to, or have to , you can write a critical appreciation of that poem.
Answers
Q1) NIL
Q2) 1. Photos
2. an island
3. A dream
4.Camera
5.Joy
6.Memories
Q3) NIL
Q4) sepia, gingham pinafores, bonnets,
Q5) "right" and "sight" (assonance)
"smile and smile and smile" (repetition)
Q6) These quotes "Lovers stay in love forever", "people sit with flasks of tea", "couples never grow tired of each other", "Nobody in Snapshotland grows old " involves people inside.
Q7) Each stanza describe different places
Q8) The poem is trying to tell us that pictures are so good that they can freeze time because you will look forever young in a picture and behind every picture there is an interesting story.
Q9)
a) It is the poet.
b) He is speaking to the public in general
c) It is relaxed and cheerful
d) It is cheerful and relaxed
e) He is organise in a way that he gave many examples of how wonderful a picture is.
f) It is relevant to the passage
Snapshotland
In Snapshotland everyone is happy all the time.
It is the promised land where people sit with flasks of tea
on smooth sand by a flat sea and smile and smile and smile.
The sun shines all day long and every day in Kodachrome
or sepia on sandboys and sandgirls who never
stop smiling from the time they first appear, with buckets,
in crisp, gingham pinafores and bonnets on the sea-shore.
Lovers stay in love forever; married couples never
grow tired of each other; everything is always just right.
The dolphins know exactly when to leap into the air
and stay there for the permanent delight of passengers
aboard the pleasure-boat which never passes out of sight.
Nobody in Snapshotland grows old unless they want to,
judging by the way they go on smiling so, in deck-chairs,
on the beach, or in old-fashioned gardens with lavender
and grandchildren here and there - and no one dies, ever.
Even if they don't appear later, the people are still
always there, smiling through the lavender and dolphins
and the buckets full of pebbles on the same sea-shore.
By Sylvia Kantaris
After reading this poem, I am going to use this 10 steps to analyse it.
1)Forget what the poem may or may not mean, or what it may be about
2)Look at the title and jot down about half a dozen things that it suggest to you.
3)Read the poem once quickly and then several times more slowly. Try to hear the poem aloud in your head.
4)Make a list of all those things which force their attention on you or which catch your interest for one reason or another. You might jot down unusual/odd/striking words, rhymes or repetition/patterns/contrasts,etc.
5)Look at and list any features of language used in the poem, e.g. no capital letters; no full stops at all the line-end; presence/absence of adverbs/adjectives; all verbs are either active/passive; tenses-all past
except the last line, etc
6)Try to find groups of words e.g.
(a) All similes make reference to animals/death/plants etc
(b) All the first words of lines are conjunctions etc
7)Look at your lists, notes and groups. Do you see any pattern taking shape?
8)Read the poem again and try to make intelligent guesses of what the poem may mean.
9)Answer the following questions:
a) Who is 'speaking' the poem? Is it the poet or persona?
b)Who is the poem 'spoken' to? Is it a particular person, to the poet himself or to the public in general?
c)What is the speaker's attitude to that audience? Is it angry,sincere,joking or teasing?
d)What is the poet's attitude to his audience?
e) Why is the poem organized in the way it is?
f)What is the effect of all the things you have noted at Steps 2, 4, 5 and 6?
10)Now if you wish to, or have to , you can write a critical appreciation of that poem.
Answers
Q1) NIL
Q2) 1. Photos
2. an island
3. A dream
4.Camera
5.Joy
6.Memories
Q3) NIL
Q4) sepia, gingham pinafores, bonnets,
Q5) "right" and "sight" (assonance)
"smile and smile and smile" (repetition)
Q6) These quotes "Lovers stay in love forever", "people sit with flasks of tea", "couples never grow tired of each other", "Nobody in Snapshotland grows old " involves people inside.
Q7) Each stanza describe different places
Q8) The poem is trying to tell us that pictures are so good that they can freeze time because you will look forever young in a picture and behind every picture there is an interesting story.
Q9)
a) It is the poet.
b) He is speaking to the public in general
c) It is relaxed and cheerful
d) It is cheerful and relaxed
e) He is organise in a way that he gave many examples of how wonderful a picture is.
f) It is relevant to the passage
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