Apparently there were some issues with the comments application yesterday. As a result we'll spend today's lesson reviewing yesterday's work. BUT FIRST!
Go to http://www.freerice.com/index.php and play around for 10-15. Remember to record the words you get wrong in your word document. Today too I'd like you to post as a comment one word which you encounter and use it in a sentence.
Remember too that you should be playing with English Vocabulary and NOT the Geography or Mathematics subjects!
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Classwork: August 24th
Bruce Dawe: Homecoming
TASK ONE (I.E. WHAT WE DON'T KNOW)
Define the following terms: HINT http://dictionary.reference.com/
HULL
MORTUARY
CURVATURE
MUZZLE
PARADOX
OXYMORON
PROSE
IRONY
TASK TWO (I.E. WHAT WE DO KNOW)
Identify FIVE techniques used by Dawe in this poem. What are they? Where are the examples? Why are they used?
TASK THREE (I.E. WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW)
Dawe here dramatises the homecoming of Australian veterans' bodies from Vietnam. This is clearly an anti-war poem, reproducing in the seventies the sentiments of the First World War poets.
I like it when a poem has a central focus. Dawe's deft writing plays powerful chords on our emotions: the injustice of killing young men and its overwhelming reality is delivered in many observable details. Rather than say I enjoyed this poem, let me say I appreciate what it is doing and rate it a powerful indictment of Australian involvement in Vietnam. It is a memorable poem.
http://home.pacific.net.au/~greg.hub/lifecycle.html
There are many websites that can help us with our understanding of poetry. The one above is a great example of what we are trying to achieve here.
Use the notes above to write what you think the PURPOSE and CONTEXT of HOMECOMING are.
TASK FOUR: ASSESSMENT
Complete TASKS 1 & 2 (P. 27: Booklet) POST TASK 2 AS A COMMENT BELOW (200 WORDS MAX)
TASK ONE (I.E. WHAT WE DON'T KNOW)
Define the following terms: HINT http://dictionary.reference.com/
HULL
MORTUARY
CURVATURE
MUZZLE
PARADOX
OXYMORON
PROSE
IRONY
TASK TWO (I.E. WHAT WE DO KNOW)
Identify FIVE techniques used by Dawe in this poem. What are they? Where are the examples? Why are they used?
TASK THREE (I.E. WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW)
Dawe here dramatises the homecoming of Australian veterans' bodies from Vietnam. This is clearly an anti-war poem, reproducing in the seventies the sentiments of the First World War poets.
I like it when a poem has a central focus. Dawe's deft writing plays powerful chords on our emotions: the injustice of killing young men and its overwhelming reality is delivered in many observable details. Rather than say I enjoyed this poem, let me say I appreciate what it is doing and rate it a powerful indictment of Australian involvement in Vietnam. It is a memorable poem.
http://home.pacific.net.au/~greg.hub/lifecycle.html
There are many websites that can help us with our understanding of poetry. The one above is a great example of what we are trying to achieve here.
Use the notes above to write what you think the PURPOSE and CONTEXT of HOMECOMING are.
TASK FOUR: ASSESSMENT
Complete TASKS 1 & 2 (P. 27: Booklet) POST TASK 2 AS A COMMENT BELOW (200 WORDS MAX)
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