'Did You Ever' poem

My African Praise poem

African Praise Poem.

How do you feel about yourself? The African culture is steeped in oral tradition.

IALT write a traditional Praise Poem.

Success Criteria:

I will explore the subject of African praise poetry,

I will take risks, and use imagery to reveal myself in poetic form.

I will follow the structure of a typical African Praise poem.

I will perform my poem to an audience, maybe using drums.

Structure:

Line 1 -  Introduction.

Line 2 – Introduction of family and heritage.

Line 3 -  Animal metaphor

Line 4 –  Nature metaphor 

Line 5 –  Personality and Qualities

Chorus - Refrain, written by the class describing my talents.

My  reflection : I learnt how to write an African Praise Poem.   It was hard when I had to write the metaphors

in my poem.  I like writing the African Praise poem because I get to know the animal that I am like. 

 Next  I will try to write more metaphors in my poem. 

My welcome Post

My name is Bella.  I go to Elm Park School.  My class is room 19 with Mrs Taljaard.  I'm doing a blog so that I can post my work and get feed back.  I enjoy art, helping others and math. This year I hope I can participate in being a Wet day monitor and a Digi kid. I am looking forward to having lots of visitors and reading your comments.