Thursday, 28 February 2019

Desert Dwellers


The poem ‘My Country’ by Dorothea Mackellar is rich in poetry techniques. This week, we have examined stanzas of this poem to find examples of alliteration. Using their investigation into desert dwellers as a stimulus for writing, the students experimented with alliteration in their poems.

Sand Goanna
Slowly the sand goanna crawled across the sandy desert
Searching for prey
Past the spikey spinifex
Celebrating when food found
Now to seek shade
Jamie

The Desert
Sandchill canegrass creeping up its stem
Soaking up the sunlight, shooting through the sand
Sizzling sand, waves of heat
Emus pecking
Fanning their feathers
Thundering feet
Kaysha & Olivia

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