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Year 11 Advanced English
Although learning is online, Year 11 Advanced English students are still demonstrating their range of creativity.
Students are beginning their new unit: Narratives that Shape Our World. Students were asked to write a poem about narratives using poetic structure and language to purposefully highlight key ideas and understandings about Narratives. Here are the results:
To the sky or the sea,
to the east or the west,
to the north or the south,
to Olympus or the underworld,
to the living or the dead,
to the darkness or the light,
to the city or the outback,
to the weird or the normal,
to the loud or the quiet,
alone or together,
you may go where your heart sees best fit.
By Imreet Singh
They aim to entertain and ingrain in your brain
They start with a goal and end in your soul
They remove, exclude, allude and intrude
Those who will fester with a mission to censor
They exist to force change and social rearrange
They speak to the nations and build their foundations
They are creators of those who seek answers
They are the stories that produce human glories
By Madeline Proud
A novel lay silent,
Full of words with talent.
Holding potentials yet to cease,
Who will be the one to attain internal peace.
Bursting with madness,
Topped with sadness.
A hint of laughter,
There is still more to chase after.
Not just motivating,
It is also educating.
Where can you find all of this?
Read a narrative and conquer bliss.
By Jasleen Kaur
Psst.
Only you have the power. You are the author of your own story.
Winter or summer, day or night, it matters not.
Every day you have the opportunity to write up a new page.
Realise that, although it's hard to turn the page when you know someone wont be in the next chapter. Know that the story must go on.
By Martianne Javier
A story begins in the start of time
its moral only lasting forever
All of our emotion is ancient law
The ties created will never severe
The pages of a book may fade away
But the meaning will grow even stronger
We just hope that the love behind will stay
For stories help us survive much longer
Tales that have died will make our souls wander
As they have never taught us about life
Stories of our world will make us ponder
We must learn about our own paradise
Through our shared looking glass we may find hope
We will move forward by pulling the rope
By Zara Heiland
It would be insulting to merely express narratives as powerful.
How dare you forget the culture and human nature preserved inside.
They sound easy peasy squeezy, but that notion isn’t allowable.
When true narratives have caused tired dry eyes to cry when their favourite character died.
Whether your favourite novel withholds heartache or mystery,
I’m certain it’s made your toes curl, I’m sure we can agree.
Narratives have many purposes, they entertain, inform and retell history
An even discuss religious events like when Moses divided the red sea
When you sit down with your daughter 20 years from now
And recount your dramatic life tales and teach her the alphabet.
She’ll remember the stories you told her before watching Cash Cow
And you’ll brush off her inquisitive nature by lighting a cigarette.
Her creative mind will flourish as yours begins to disintegrate.
You continue your everyday job making worthless dead dollars,
As she produces the greatest novels for all to appreciate.
Yet here you are, constrained by the government on a dog-collar.
Narratives are more than powerful, if that wasn’t already clear.
Now unleash your inner creativity