This week for home learning you are to write a poem to enter into the NZATE Junior Writing (Poetry) Competition 2012
Write a poem of no more than 40 lines about an object in your house.
Suggestions: Choose an object and brainstorm everything you can about what it looks,
sounds, tastes, feels and smells like, where it came from, why you have it, what is the best/
worst thing about it, a memory associated with it, what you’d like to forget about it ...
....now use your brainstorm as the beginning for your poem and see where it takes you.
Prizes:
The winner at each year level (Yr 9 and 10) wins $100 and their poem will be published
in the October issue of English in Aotearoa
The two runners-up at each level win $50 each.
I'll send your poems off to be entered into the competition - you just have to post them on your blogs.
Last week, a lot of you made silly mistakes in your writing. Please check back and edit any incorrect grammar and spelling. A lot of you didn't even do the home learning - get it typed up please.
Write a poem of no more than 40 lines about an object in your house.
Suggestions: Choose an object and brainstorm everything you can about what it looks,
sounds, tastes, feels and smells like, where it came from, why you have it, what is the best/
worst thing about it, a memory associated with it, what you’d like to forget about it ...
....now use your brainstorm as the beginning for your poem and see where it takes you.
Prizes:
The winner at each year level (Yr 9 and 10) wins $100 and their poem will be published
in the October issue of English in Aotearoa
The two runners-up at each level win $50 each.
I'll send your poems off to be entered into the competition - you just have to post them on your blogs.
Last week, a lot of you made silly mistakes in your writing. Please check back and edit any incorrect grammar and spelling. A lot of you didn't even do the home learning - get it typed up please.
Hi miss, can it be 'any' type of poem???
ReplyDeleteYes.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I don't think you are going to win any prizes with an acrostic poem.
I think they are probably after something where you just jot down and craft your thoughts, like most of the Glenn Colqhoun poems you will have seen; they can't really be put into a poem 'category'.
Hi miss, can you please post a link to the competition site.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if there is one. I have to email your entries in to another teacher who runs NZATE - it's an English teacher group.
Deleteohh okay.
ReplyDeleteHey Miss,
ReplyDeleteSorry my poem got in late.
Finally got a chance on the computer:)