Play the game 'Haiku Hero' (click the picture or the link).
Write the best haiku you make in the 'comments' section at the bottom of this post with your name. To do this you need to select 'name and url' from the options; type your name and click 'post'; then enter the key word. If you can't do this, write them in word and send to my work postbox.
Also:
For this haiku explain:
1) Some facts you've learnt about haiku; 2) Why you chose the words you did - "I chose the word ___ because______" - as much detail as possible;
3) If you had to change any words to fit the pattern.
Finally, as an extra challenge (for vivos!):
Write a haiku or any other type of poem about yourself - this will go in your file.
Post all homework in the comments section or submit on paper by Tuesday 25th January.
Also, here is a copy of The Wendigo by Ogden Nash if anyone want to read it again!
(for a Caribbean island man in London who still wakes up to the sound of the sea)
Morning and island man wakes up to the sound of blue surf in his head the steady breaking and wombing
wild seabirds and fishermen pushing out to sea the sun surfacing defiantly from the east of his small emerald island he always comes back groggily groggily
Comes back to sands of a grey metallic soar to surge of wheels to dull north circular roar
muffling muffling his crumpled pillow waves island man heaves himself
Another London day
Grace Nichols
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Homework - due Friday 14th
1. Watch the video-clip (click the link below the video if it fails to load) 2. Read the poem/lyrics to the song (below) 3. Research meaning of certain words (more info below) 4. Answer the question at the bottom of the poem.
- post answers WITH YOUR NAME in the 'comments' section.
Read the lyrics to the song, 'England, Half English' by Billy Bragg (below)
What is Bragg referring to by 'red, white and blue', 'Hindustan', 'Bubble and Squeek', 'three lions', 'Morris dancing' and 'Morrisey'? Look them up!
ENGLAND, HALF-ENGLISH
My mother was half-English And I’m half-English too I’m a great big bundle of culture Tied up in the red,white and blue
I’m a fine example of your Essex Man And I'm well familiar with the Hindustan ‘Cos my neighbours are half-English And I’m half-English too
My breakfast was half-English And so am I you know I had a plate of Marmite soldiers Washed down with a cappuccino
And I have a veggie curry about once a week The next day I fry it up as ‘Bubble ‘N’ Squeak’ ‘Cos my appetite’s half-English And I’m half-English too
Dance with me To this very English melody From Morris dancing to Morrissey All that stuff came from across the sea
Britannia , she’s half-English She speaks Latin at home St. George was born in the Lebanon How he got here I don’t know
And those three lions on your shirt They never sprang from England’s dirt Them lion’s are half-English And I’m half-English too
Le-li Umma le-li-ya, le-li Umma le-li-ya Le-li Umma le-li-ya, bledi g’desh akh! le-li-ya Oh my country Oh my country Oh my country What a beautiful country you are.
Question:The phrase: "Le-li Umma le-li-ya, bledi g’desh akh! le-li-ya" is Algerian for "Oh my country / What a beautiful country you are" (the music to the song in the video is also Algerian in origin). How does England, Half English compare with The British (serves 60 million) by Zephaniah and Island Man by Nichols? What's the same? What's different? Answer in full sentences.
ALL ANSWERS (WITH YOU NAME!) POSTED IN THE COMMENTS SECTION OF THIS POST BY MONDAY 17th.
