The Light brigade poem

 LI: to know the story behind the poem.

This week we learnt about the poem called the Light Brigade. We had to unpack the poem bit by bit to understand the meaning behind the poem. The author of this poem is Alfred Lord Testiness. The story behind this poem is about the light brigade riding the valley of death and then trying to retrieve the guns that were stolen.They came back failing the mission, and coming out with nothing. 600 men went in less than one third came back ( less that 200). Something I enjoyed doing doing was learning about the Light Brigade, because I didn't know about it in the first place.

Ancestor Poem

LI: to write meaningful poem.
We wrote a poem of our ancestors. We had to write what our culture and gender was and share two things that is meaningful about our culture. I'm Burmese and Mon so the things that are important is my religion and my language. We had to write what our ancestor helped us with.

Haiku Challenge 1

LI: to create a Haiku.
 For this task we are making a Haiku. The order a Haiku has to go is that you have to have 5 syllables in the first sentence, then 7 syllables and lastly 5 syllables. To figure out the syllables, put a finger on your chin and every time your chin drops that's a syllable.

Rap/Poetry & Vocab

LI: to build knowledge of vocabulary, and links words to the wider world.
We have been talking about vocabulary and linking to the wider world. We had to make two slides, one for Rap or poetry and the other for our vocabulary.  For our rap and poetry you have to read the text and pick if it is a rap or a poem.

Poems

LI:to identify the purpose of poems.
Poetry is a text for communicating ideas and expressing your feelings to people.
Poetry include sound patterns. They are rhyme and rhythm.
Rhyming is repeating sounds in words.There are four kinds of rhyme: Consonants, end rhyme, alliteration, and assonance.
Consonance is a repeated sound in a consonant.
End rhyme is a rhyme at the end of the line.
Alliteration is a repeated sound in the beginning of the line.
Assonance is vows sounds repeated in each words.
We used a highlighter and a list of poems.
Then we had to highlight the rhymes we thought was right and highlight the kind of rhyme it was.