English

Australian Poetry Performance Review

On 6 June, Josh, Bronte and Sam from the Complete Theatre Company performed poetry to the Year 7s in the auditorium. Poetry is a part of our English studies this term and watching them recite the poems helped us understand poetry a lot more. Some of the poems they recited were Egg by Ashley McGregor, Mulga Bill’s Bicycle by A.B ‘Banjo’ Patterson and Gas Tank Sonnets by Samuel Wagon Watson.

What we enjoyed most about the performance was how they matched the actions to the words or used an accent to make it feel like the writer was actually there. They did this for most of the performance. They performed a poem called Gas Tank Sonnets by Samuel Wagon Watson and got us involved by letting some students get up on the stage and change the words and lines around to make a whole new poem. From this we learnt that poems don’t always have to rhyme and you can use actions to help emphasise the words.

In conclusion, the performance was good and helped us learn more about poetry.

Sophie and Sienna 

Year 7

Poetry Performance Review

On Thursday 6 June, the Year 7s from Kilbreda College had a poetry workshop/ incursion. Many Australian poems were performed by three talented people, Josh, Bronte and Sam. Poetry is a part of our new English study, where we are learning about different styles of poetry and how to write poems. From this workshop we learnt about how poetry can be performed in theatre type performances.

There was a range of amazing poems that were performed.  Some of them were Mulga Bill’s Bicycle by A.B Paterson, Past Carin’ by Henry Lawson, We Are Going by Oodgeroo Noonuccal and a lot more. The poems were very well performed some used props and were like a performance but some were just spoken.  There was also a fun activity, where some kids got to go onto the stage and mix up the words from one of the poems that was read out. We also learnt about how different voices and tones can change the way a poem sounds and feels, like with the poem Past Carin’ by Henry Lawson, Bronte, who performed it, used a sad but also angry voice.

From this workshop we learnt a lot about different ways of performing poetry and how changing words in poems can make a huge difference.  This workshop was very interesting, informing us how poetry is written, why it is written and how different styles of performing poetry can change the mood of the whole piece.  Overall this workshop was great and we recommend it for high schools around Australia.

Taylor and Isabelle

Year 7