Sweet as poetry

WALT- Read and analyse spoken texts with confidence and expression.

Activity One:

Read the poem, My Mother’s Coat by Ta’i George

• What is the poem about?
• How old do you think the person who is telling the story in the poem is? How do you know this?

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• Identify some language features in the poem and give examples.�

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Activity Two:

• What are some interesting words that you have found in the poem? Find the definition to those words. ���

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Activity Three:

• Describe the mother’s coat in your own words. ��
• Using google drawing or ask a teacher for a piece of paper and pencil, design what you think the Mother’s Coat looks like. Add your design on another slide.

Coat Design

Activity Four:

Read the poem, ‘Afakasi Chameleon by Selina Tusitala Marsh

• What is the message in the poem, the author is trying to bring across?���
• Why does the author use the chameleon in her poem? What does it symbolise?�

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• Identify language features in the poem with examples.����
• What are some interesting words in the poem that you found? Create a table for those words on another slide with the definition of those words.

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Interesting words in ‘Afakasi Chameleon

Choose one of the poems that you have read this week to practice reading out loud. You are going to present this poem to your group and teacher as an audience.