Writing paragraph responses to a poem

 Yesterday we explored the poem school sucks but at least ur friends are there.

We identified seven language techniques in the poem, and learned some new techniques in the process.

Today we are learning to write paragraph responses to a poem.  Our paragraphs will:

• use the wording of the question
• use the language techniques terminology
• include the effect of the language techniques

You have three questions to work on.  Everyone should complete ONE question, and many of you will do two or even three.  Focus on doing a really good job before you move on.

1. How does the writer show what it feels like to be a teenager at school?
2. What does the writer suggest about the feelings some teenagers ahve at the end of the school holidays?
3. How does the writer use the five senses to develop ideas about school and school holidays?

school sucks but at least ur friends are there

 

school sucks but at least ur friends are there, by Vanessa Mei Crofskey

u can only walk around the suburbs so often on bright days so hot
the concrete crackles n text ur friends at malls and fields and malls again

before u start to get bored of running
out of things to do &

miss the lush red first kiss of a fresh 1B5
and the girls in ur class with lip gloss scented stationery

& the boys who draw on their mates legs with sharpies &
also i guess learning new things every day

school sucks but all my friends are there
spreading colds as quick as climate change

no one shares germs with me in the holidays

in the holidays my outside voice wears jeans with grassy knees
& watches compilation youtube videos on the highest volume

& i walk around the suburbs on days so hot the ice block
drips down my wrist    with sticky fingers it feeds the crackling concrete

Find and label the following language techniques:
-onomatopeia
- simile
- alliteration
- enjambement
- deliberate subverting of writing conventions
- first-person narrator
- personification