This Is Just To Say
Starter Think of something that you can find in the refrigerator that you would find it hard to resist. Write your ideas on a post-it note ... Share your idea with your partner Keep that idea in your mind and think of others as we go along. William Carlos Williams He often wrote poems that conjured an image or a feeling. A poem doesn't have to be long. Like Japanese Haiku. What I would call a snapshot or a moment in time like a photograph. They are popular as they are short and memorable. Here is my favourite; The Red Wheelbarrow so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens Here is the poem that you will study. Open your exercise books Copy the poem into your exercise book as I recite it. Check for accuracy and the use of punctuation. This Is Just To Say I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive ...