Poem analysis

he cuts a sorry figure, the solitary vendor

among the sleeping bungalows

pedalling up the stubborn

aristocratic slopes of jesselton heights

Today in class we discussed a poem and for homework we had to write one paragraph on one of the verses in the poem. I decided to choose the verse above because it touched me in a way. For example he is just a simple street satay seller trying to earn a few ringgit for his family. He worked hard day and night and still the rich people of jesselton heights don’t see him for what he does or is trying to do. They are just being extremely arrogant and ignoring him all the time not interested in even trying, to help him out. I find this extremely sad because I would at least spare some of my time to buy some satay off of the man and fell proud that I have just helped one of the many hard workers out there support his family.

By Brenon Johnstone

Lesson 1.1 ~ Poetry discussion (Reflection)

The poetry discussion lesson started off with an interesting activity using a wordle we had to put the words in the wordle into two separate groups which were, the terms we were 100% sure about and the words we were not so sure about.


The Introduction to the lesson, was a really well thought out way of helping us learn the words which we weren't to sure of. If our partner knew a word which we didn't they would explain it to us until we understood it correctly. Once we understood the words we wrote the words we both weren't to sure about on a separate piece of paper and pinned them to the board.


Then the whole class joined in and the words which were on the board and no one knew we took 3 or 4 down each and researched there meanings. When we had finished researching we walked around the class room and we told any one person what was on our card and what it meant for example 'Haiku' which is made up of 3 lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables. After we had told them the meaning they had to then repeat what we said in order to receive our card.


Overall I thought that the lesson was fun and also found I learnt quite a lot of new word meanings. Also it was good getting to work as a whole class where everyone could join in.


Brenon.