Poetry Revision Year 7

Drifters and My Father Began as a God

Revision

Drag and Drop

One day soon he'll tell her it's time to start packing

and the kids will yell 'Truly?' and get wildly excited for no reason

and the brown ​ ​

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pup will start dashing about, tripping everyone up

and she'll go out to the vegetable patch and pick all the ​

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tomatoes from the vines

and notice how the ​

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girl is close to tears because she was happy here,

and how the youngest girl is ​

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because she wasn't.

And the first thing she'll put on the trailer will be the bottling-set she never unpacked from Grovedale,

and when the loaded ute bumps down the drive past the blackberry canes with their last ​

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fruit, she won't even ask why they're leaving this time, or where they're headed for

she'll only remember how, when they came here

she held out her hands, bright with berries,

the first of the season, and said:

'Make a wish, Tom, make a wish.'

Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

kelpie

green

oldest

beaming

shrivelled

poodle

red

youngest

sobbing

fresh

Labelling

Match the techniques to the lines from the poem.

Drag labels to their correct position on the image

Enjambment

Alliteration

Contrast

Visual imagery

Symbolism

Categorize

Options (6)

Shows the different emotional responses to the same journey.

Creates a positive feeling about the place.

Suggests that time has passed.

Suggests that the family has just moved in.

Creates a sense of flow and continuity.

Highlights the ongoing nature of the family's journey.

Organize these options to match the effect to the technique.

Symbolism

Enjambment

Alliteration

Contrast

Open Ended

Write a Topic sentence explaining how Bruce Dawe represents journeys in Drifters.

Multiple Select

What journey is shown in My Father Began as a God? (Select ALL correct answers)

• The emotional journey of growth between a son and his father.

• A journey that reflects an individuals change in perspective.

• A lifelong journey that reveals the way individuals are always discovering who they are.

• The journey of a person becoming a god.

Multiple Choice

"My father began as a god" is a ________________ used to highlight the persona's adoration and respect for their father when they were a child.

• metaphor
• allegory
• simile
• hyperbole

Multiple Choice

The poet uses __________ in the line "strange then how he shrank and shrank" to reveal that as they aged, the persona's positive perspective of their father diminished.

• repetition
• imagery
• alliteration
• metaphor

Multiple Choice

The use of past and present ________in the poem reinforces the shift in perspective the persona has undergone.

• adjectives

• tense

• words

• nouns

Open Ended

What does Ian Mudie reveal to the audience about journeys in his poem My Father Began as a God?

Writing Your TEEL paragraphs

TEEL Structure Recap:
TOPIC: Answer the question. Identify the specific journey in the poem.
EXPAND: Add detail to your topic (how is this journey shown?)
EXPLANATION: Quote + Technique + Analysis of the effect. How does the poet use poetic techniques to show the audience about journeys?
LINK: Connect back to the question. So... what does this teach us about journeys in the real world?

Your ETA Table

The second 'E' of your paragraph will go on your ETA table. (There is space for you to write 3 'ETA's on each of your two poems!)
This means that you need to remember your Topic, Expand and Link sentences.
You have written a paragraph on Then and Now in class (so this would be a good choice for one of your poems).

Your ETA Table

For your second poem, choose Drifters or My Father Began as a God.

Finish writing your two TEEL paragraphs in the rest of this lesson and at home.
NEXT LESSON BRING YOUR ETA table. We will work on completing this in class.