The Highwayman Summary

This week we have been reading the poem called the Highwayman by Alfred Noyes. It was written in 1913 but is set a long time before. The Highwayman was a British outlaw who would steal gold from people who were in carriages. His lover Bess would later in the poem take her life to warn her loved one about the soldiers who camped in her bedroom. When he found out about Bess taking her life he charged towards her residence where he was shot by the King's soldiers. Legend has it that when the moon is a ghostly galleon upon the cloudy seas he rides towards Bess's residence (an old inn) where he talks to her while she plaits a love knot in her hair.

-Blurb by Jeremiah

The Inchcape Rock

This week, the task for poetry was to first get into our groups and read a poem called Inchcape Rock, after that we needed to each read the verse that we'd chosen out to the rest of the class and create a DLO on the verse that we'd chosen.

Charlotte Anne

This week for poetry we were learning about a woman called Charlotte Anne, since it was back in the 1870s women were expected to stay at home, clean the house, look after the children and do all of the other chores. Unlike others Charlotte Anne wore men's trousers, wore boots and worked in a job full of men (She was a Bullocky), for the task however, we needed to watch the ballad poem about her. After that the task was to answer all of the other questions in the DLO.