20 Word Summary & Picture | Waltzing Matilda

This week in reading we took a look at Australian poem written by Andrew Barton about a swag-man and his crime called Waltzing Matilda. We defined a few words in the poem that we didn't understand, and went over the meaning behind it. In partners, we made a summary of the poem by listing 20 words in the poem, then filtering it down to the 6 most important words and making a summary using those words. Then thinking about the first paragraph, we created an imaginative drawings of what it might look like as the poem had no pictures to go with the writing. I drew the Coolibah tree, the billy boil, the water-hole, and of course the man by the Coolibah tree, singing. 

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