This week we have been looking at a poem called Two Day Wonder by David Hill. For the first activity we listed words that had similar meanings to the words: sick, sad, depressed or bored. Secondly, that we did the same thing with the words: well, happy, bright and active. After that we listed five opposite situations such as The world yawned and grumbled - the world shines and dances. This is called juxtaposition. Juxtaposition is when you have two different situations then put them side by side to create a contrasting effect. Lastly we wrote our own version of a poem similar to David Hill's but for this one it was based on our way to school. The DLO on the top is the poem. Reading a poem with low level words such as sad and happy can be very boring. To help us discover more vocabulary and to help us make our poem more powerful we used a cline. This is a resource that helps develop better words.
Hi Jeremiah
ReplyDeleteGreat job on creating a word cline and your poem. I really liked how you put a lot of time and effort into making your poem longer, I also liked how you explained what you needed to do not only in you blurb, but in your DLO too. I only have one question for you though, was it easy to create and then contrast the poem?
Alex