We live in a beautiful country that is very different to other places on Earth. People often use poetry to describe things. Take some time to read this poem, which describes the Australian landscape.Remember to use the “comprehension strategies” that we are learning about to help you understand what the author is trying to say.
MY COUNTRY
The love of field and coppice,
Of green and shaded lanes.
Of ordered woods and gardens
Is running in your veins,
Strong love of grey-blue distance
Brown streams and soft dim skies
I know but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me!
A stark white ring-barked forest
All tragic to the moon,
The sapphire-misted mountains,
The hot gold hush of noon.
Green tangle of the brushes,
Where lithe lianas coil,
And orchids deck the tree-tops
And ferns the warm dark soil.
Core of my heart, my country!
Her pitiless blue sky,
When sick at heart, around us,
We see the cattle die-
But then the grey clouds gather,
And we can bless again
The drumming of an army,
The steady, soaking rain.
Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the Rainbow Gold,
For flood and fire and famine,
She pays us back threefold-
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze.
An opal-hearted country,
A wilful, lavish land-
All you who have not loved her,
You will not understand-
Though earth holds many splendours,
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown country
My homing thoughts will fly.
Dorothea Mackellar
1. Choose a stanza from the poem and describe in your own words what the author is trying to say.
2. You may need to use a dictionary to check on the definition of some words.
3. You will also need to use your imagination.
4. Read the poem to Mum, Dad or another family member and ask them what images they see when they hear the words of the poem.
5. The words may remind them of a particular place in Australia if it does include this in your response.
2. You may need to use a dictionary to check on the definition of some words.
3. You will also need to use your imagination.
4. Read the poem to Mum, Dad or another family member and ask them what images they see when they hear the words of the poem.
5. The words may remind them of a particular place in Australia if it does include this in your response.
This is a fantastic poem. Sums up so many images of Our Country.
ReplyDeleteThink of at least 3 ways in which your everydayy family so I can not be scared as much.
ReplyDelete2. be more green to the envirement in any type of cituation.
3. Be awere of the nerest flood and be prepered.
What are the positive effects that flooding could lead to?
1. if there was rainfall for a long period the water would have fed the crops and save you money for buying water when you need it
2.the town streets will be cleener.
3. people lost there lives, homes and love ones.
Explain 3 ways in which the environment would be changed.
1.plants might drown from too much water.
2.the dirty water might make people sick
3.people's houses will fall down depending on the presure of the water. life would be changed after extensive flooding
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ReplyDelete10 things you cant clean are, dirt because if you poor water on dirt it will turn into mud, paper because it will rip if you put water on it, germs because you cant see it, rusty metal because it will rust if it gets wet, power cords because it will shock you, garbage because it is all ready dirty, tissue because it will rip very easily! Air because you don’t know what you are cleaning, ocean it is too big, and the sky because it is too high!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDelete5 things we haven’t heard is an apple because It doesn’t make noise, a dinosaur because they are extinct, a ghost because they don’t exist, a massive bush fire because we have never seen a massive bushfire, a skunk because they aren’t near where we live!!!!!!!!!
10 things we can’t take a photo of, a bird because it flies away when we take the photo, air because you cant see it, words because it is not a image, rain because it comes out blurry, the sun because you cant look straight at it, a dinosaur because they are extinct, you can’t photograph sound because the is no image coming from sound, you can’t take a photo of foreign buildings because of terrisem and you can’t take pictures inside a plane also because of terrisem.
Floods
ReplyDeleteThink of at least 3 ways in which your everyday life would be changed after extensive flooding.
Explain 3 ways in which the environment would be changed.
What are the positive effects that flooding could lead to?
1.My every day life would be different because we may have no food from all our crops.
2.My every day life would be different because there would be no way to travel around where ever the flood is.
3.My every day life would be different because even if there was a flood there would be no where to escape from it,because there is water sounding you.
1. The Environment would change by the weather would get really hot.
It would be humid because all the water would be evaporating from the ground.
2.It would change the Environment by all the plants and trees getting to much water.That all the plants may die.
3.The Environment would be changed by all the animals.Which means we may have less meat to eat and other things.
It would be harder to travel because the roads will be blocked off.
There would be more irrigation because of the increase of water.
1. Precious things that mean a lot to you destroyed. Eg. Furniture and pictures.
ReplyDelete2. School will be closed because classrooms will be flooded.
3. I won’t be able to live in my house for longer than a week.
1. The land destroyed and may not be able to get used again.
2. Crops will die because they will be under water.
3. Playgrounds will have to get re- built because they would rust.
1. Water tanks and dams will catch water.
This is a great poem for our country AUSTRALIA! It makes me proud to be a Australian person. It is well descriptive and if you live in Australia you know what I mean. It is good that she did write that and took her time just for US Australian!:)
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