African Praise Poem.
How do you feel about yourself? The African culture is steeped in oral tradition.
IALT write a traditional Praise Poem.
Success Criteria:
I will explore the subject of African praise poetry,
I will take risks, and use imagery to reveal myself in poetic form.
I will follow the structure of a typical African Praise poem.
I will perform my poem to an audience, maybe using drums.
Structure:
Line 1 - Introduction.
Line 2 – Introduction of family and heritage.
Line 3 - Animal metaphor
Line 4 – Nature metaphor
Line 5 – Personality and Qualities
Chorus - Refrain, written by the class describing my talents.
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Reflection
I found this a little bit tricky to describe myself.
Next time I will try and describe myself.
