11ENG - Unfamiliar Texts - Poetry Booklet

2. Record your first impressions below.
I think that this poem is great because it uses a lot of metaphors and similes to describe what things are like.

3. Vocabulary Work
starboard - right side of the boat

alveolus - bony part of a socket where the tooth goes in

fossick- looking for something

4. Making Connections
Normally, people grow older but in this poem, the person grows younger. It might be because when you lose a tooth, you look a bit younger.

5. Identifying the point of change

a. Paragraph 3
b. Paragraph 7
c. The atmosphere is calm because the characters were by the seashore, looking for shells, and they were at home, sliding across their floor
d.

6. Identifying how the poem is communicated

alliteration   - twelve teeth old
metaphor - your gums are an ocean of blood
personal pronoun - I
direct address -
listing - shells, starfish, pipi , and paua
adjective
simile
personification

NCEA Level 1 - How to get E8 (High Excellence) in Unfamiliar Texts

How to get E8 (High Excellence) in Unfamiliar Texts

These are helpful tips to get High Excellence in your upcoming NCEA Level 1 Externals for English

- Identifying techniques and language features and explaining how it made the readers feel and how it changes the readers perspective towards the text.

- Add in your personal voice, link it to yourself, make it genuine.

- Have an appreciation for the text