Section outline

  • Success criteria: 

    Contributing a stanza of the sestina poem in the correct format that can be swapped with your partner class.



    Poem #3 - A poem of metaphors and repetition.

    Ask two questions: What is a path/ara to you? What is a journey/haerenga to you? Give one Path Slip and one Journey Slip to every student. Without discussion write a six word answer to each question on the corresponding slips. Note: Answers can not include the words ‘A journey/ haerenga is’. Place all Journey Slips in one container and all Path Slips in another. Students choose two slips, one of each type and then stand together in a circle. Students should read their pair out loud after which everyone should reply together: “Ara-Path. Journey-Haerenga”.

    Poem #4: A sestina - each postcard will form one stanza of a sestina.
    Think of a specific journey - short, long, special, everyday, real or fake.

    Write six lines about that journey, each with only six words, using the following writing prompts:

    • Something you saw.
    • Something you remember.
    • A person who was with you.
    • A wonderful imagined thing that didn’t actually happen

    • The reason for your journey.  
    • Your own six word sentence.

    Match each of the six lines to one of the six words on your postcard.
    Expect the ordering and reordering of lines until there is a fit.

    Friday is our library session - we'll record our novels on a shared google document


    PLAN & DO / WHAKAMAHI

    PLAN & DO / WHAKAMAHI learning intentions:

    • We are PLANNING on applying the techniques we have learned so that we can write and present our "I Am From" poems to a group of younger students and submit sestinas to our buddy classes.