The Main Idea - ANZAC Poems

This week for reading we had to read poems. The poems we read were The Soldier Who Never Returned, Spirit Of ANZAC, In Flanders Field and Poem For Remembrance Day. Nazella and I worked together to find out the main idea and the evidence of what the main idea was. To help us find out about the main idea was think about the author's purpose, look at the title. look at the pictures, look at the first and last sentence and look for the repetition of words or phrases. A main idea means what the poem is about and the author's purpose. Our LI: for this task was to find a main idea of a poem. 

ANZAC Secret Diary

This week for inquiry we had to write a letter imagining that you were a soldier at war. We used key words from Charlie May's Secret Diary. Charlie May was the first captain in WW1 that died on the morning of July 1st 1916. This is my letter and I have used some key words to help me imagine that I was in the trenches. We watched some videos to help us with our writing. The letter I wrote to was my mother because I want her to know whats happening in the trenches. If you want to read Charlie May's secret diary click here.