Poetry ILT

Last week, at our school, all the grade 6s took part in a ILT. The ILT started on Wednesday and ended on Friday. ILT stands for Integrated Learning Task. For this particular ILT we were all put into groups of 3. But i was in a group of 4, because we have 20 in our class so one group had to be a group of 4. So this ILT was an English one, and we did poetry. In one of the tasks we each had to select a style of writing our poem and and a theme, then write it. The options were  Haiko, Colour poem, Cinquain, Limerick, Acrostic poem and a Concrete poem. Out of all of these, I chose the color poem. If you don't know what a color poem is, you should google it and find out, but I'll give you a picture. Our groups theme was a Wave This was my poem:

Turquoise

Turquoise is swift, just like a wave.

Turquoise feels like a relief of stress.

Turquoise smells like the ocean.

Turquoise is a calm, swift movement.

Turquoise tastes like bubblegum ice-cream.

We had 5 tasks to do as a group and 1 task to do individually. We had a poetry slam on Friday, where our whole group had to think of one theme and each have lines to present to the grade as a group. ours  was about the dark.

The Dark

Noah

The night is dark and silent

Nothing to be heard

Nothing to do

Nowhere to go

Nothing to see

Sean

It's dark, it's scary, and it's not a dream.....

UNLESS someone is with me, in the dark...

If that was the case I'd feel safer.... But WATCHED....

Sometime I wonder if people watch over me in the dark, BUT ILL NEVER KNOW

Because I'm in the dark

Reef

It is so quiet

Actually to quite

My brothers at college

My parents are away

I can hear scratching on the wall

Brendan

I see green eyes

Some thing ran down the hall

This is creeping me out

And I heard something fall

Also, The eyes are back at my door

If you're wondering what was in the dark, it was a cat.

Our English teacher let our group do it in assembly which was on that same day just later on. A few other groups also did this. Another exciting thing that's coming up tomorrow until Friday is camp! The whole grade is going on camp. we just figured out who's in who's cabins. I'm with Max, Calum, Luke S, Bash, Ollie, Zac M and myself. I'm just so excited!