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.

Poetry Juxtaposition

This week's task for poetry was to first read a poem and then answer some questions and create some word clines, for the word clines we first needed to choose a word and then find all of the necessary synonyms for it. After that the task was to draw a line on some paper and then write down the synonyms that we'd written down onto the line in order from top to bottom depending on how important we found that one synonym.

In the summer I’m aroused to a snug and friendly breeze, all the pollen in the air always makes me sneeze.

After clambering into my uniform and leaving for school,

I wait for friends by a wall of hedges, relishing the blue and inviting sun.

In the winter I sullenly rise from my bed, chilled to the bone from the despairful air. After painfully getting into my uniform and slowly leaving the door, I sprint to school just to keep myself warm.

Homonyms

This week for poetry we were learnt what a homonym is, a homonym is a word that has multiple meanings but both meanings are spelt exactly the same. An example would be pound, a pound is a currency, weight measurement and a different word for beat up. For the DLO we could work in groups so I worked with Ofa and Jeremiah, I drew the pictures while they wrote the words. Before the DLO though, we needed to read a poem and then answer some questions about it.

The Unfinished Drink

This week for poetry the task was to create a DLO on Private La Tour Mollet (Ted) D'Auvergne, the reason that we were creating a DLO on him is because there was a poem written about him. The poem basically says that he bought a beer in a bar but then had to leave for the war, so he asked the bartender to hold it for him so he could drink it when he came back, but he didn't. He died in Crete. The beer then stayed there for years and for every ANZAC day one more poppy was place in its glass container.