Isabella+Scully


 * __Dangerous Dogs Homework__**


 * - Ted Baillieu supports stricter domestic dog rules.**
 * - Domestic animal fines: $19,000.**
 * - Possible law change to 20 years jail.**
 * - AVA says socialisation of dogs is more effective than exile. (more funding).**
 * - Councils are now able to seize and destroy dangerous animals.**
 * - Most common victims: Children under 10 yrs.**


 * Ted Baillieu is strongly supporting stricter dog rules and wants to enforce fines of up to $19,000 for owners of dangerous dogs. The government also wants to put a new law in place that gives 20 years jail time do the owners of dangerous dogs and results in dogs being killed. The AVA strongly disagrees with this and says that the socialisation of dogs is more effective than exile and will help protect adults and young children as the most common dog attack victims are children under 10 years.**
 * Great work Isabella - concise and your own words.**

I’m gazing up at the clear blue afternoon sky. The sky that stretches all over the world. The sky that I share with Old Bill. Memories flood my head of 10 years ago. Memories of days swimming in the river with Old Bill, eating breakfast and drinking coffee by the water, my old room in the Motel Bendarat.
 * Epilogue //Billy//**

And then I think of the day Old Bill left and sadness washes over me. I never did see him again. I hope he’s happy. Safe. I wish I could talk to him. Thank him for all he’s done for me.

“Daaaaddy!” I hear a familiar voice call my name and giggle softly. I love that sound. I turn around and she’s running towards me. My little princess. I pick her up and spin her around. “Hi sweetheart.” I say. “watcha lookin at daddy?” I pick my daughter up and sit her on my shoulders, facing the sky. A dove flies by, soaring through the afternoon sun.

“An old friend.” I say to her. I put her down and hold her hand as I walk across my yard towards my Caitlin, beautiful as ever standing in front of our old white house.

The house Old Bill gave to me. The house filled with so many memories. Some not even mine but treasured memories all the same. This is my family, my home, my life now. I owe it all to Old Bill. Wherever he is.


 * Isabella! Well done! This is a lovely response. You have demonstrated knowledge of the characters and themes, whilst maintaining Herrick's style. The imagery, metaphors and symbols are effective and add depth to your writing. Great Work.**

In Flanders Fields

1. What do the poppies represent? “The poppies blow[ing]” in Flanders field represent the many soldiers who died fighting for our country in World War One, as the poppies were the first thing to grow there. The poppies also represent new life and hope for those who survived the war.

2. What image does the first stanza provide? “The crosses row upon row” gives the image of many deaths because there are all of those crosses there, which would mean that there are many people buried beneath them.

3. What do the larks symbolise? “The Larks still bravely singing” symbolises the way the soldiers tried to stay brave and keep their spirits up, despite the violence and war.

4. What does the torch symbolise? The ‘torch’ symbolises the freedom, of what the soldiers believed in.

5. In stanza four, what is ‘sleep’ a metaphor of? In stanza four ‘sleep’ is a metaphor for death or resting in peace.

6. How does the rhyming pattern affect how you read the poem? The rhyming pattern through the poem, affects the way you read the poem because it sets a mood to the poem or a pattern in the poem. As a reader you are able to feel the emotions the poet is trying to create by learning the way the patterns in the poem and reading it in a certain way.

7. What do you think John McCrae’s message is in this poem? I think John McCrae’s message in this poem is to always remember the soldiers who died fighting for us and for our country and to try to get us to understand what they went through during the war and how important it is for us not to forget them.

Anthem for Doomed Youth:

1. ‘…for these who die as cattle’. What does Owen achieve by comparing the death of young men to that of cattle? When Owen compares the death of young men to that of cattle, he is referring to the way that cattle are killed in large numbers, and this is similar to the way these men die in war.

2. Instead of the sound of bells, what will be heard for those who die on the battlefield? Instead of the sounds of bells, the men that die on the battlefield would hear the sounds of gunshots.

3. The word ‘orisons’ means prayers. What will replace the prayers of the funeral ceremony? Gunshots will replace the prayers at funeral ceremonies.

4. ‘Only the shuttering riffles’ rapid rattle. What does Owen achieve by the alliteration of the letters ‘r’ an ‘t’? -

5. Stuttering’ and ‘rattle’ are onomatopoeic words. Why are they suitable here? -

6. The battlefield dead will not be able to have a church choir to farewell them. What kind of choir will they have? The choir that they would hear is the ‘demented choirs of wailing shells’.

7. What words suggest the sound of the shells in flight? “The shrill… wailing shells” suggest the sound of the shells in flight.

8. Demented’ means insane. Do you think ‘demented’ is a suitable word to describe the shells? I think demented was a suitable word to use to describe the shells because the way those shells have destroyed people lives and have caused so much death and pain during the war, not only to the soldiers but their families as well is, I think, insane.

9. In peacetime at a funeral, choirboys might hold candles. What will the dead youth have instead of candles? The dead youth, instead of having the light of candles, will have the light leaving their eyes as they die.

10. A pall is a cloth used to cover a coffin. What will the doomed youth have instead of a pall? Instead of a pall the dead will have their families at home, sad and mourning their death.

11. ‘Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds’. What will there be instead of flowers? Instead of flowers, the doomed youth will have.

12. It was the custom to draw down the blinds of a house as a mark of respect for someone’s death. How could ‘each slow dusk’ be ‘a drawing-down’ of blinds? What does the poet achieve here by this metaphor? Instead of having blinds drawn, the doomed youth have dusk, which is similar as when blinds are drawn, all the light is hut out and when dusk arrives the light slowly disappears ad the sun, sets.

13. An anthem is a song of praise. Do you think ‘Anthem of Doomed Youth’ is a suitable title for the poem? I think the ‘Anthem of Doomed Youth’ is a very suitable title for this poem because an anthem is a praising song and this poet is praising the soldiers for their bravery. The poem clearly praises the soldiers and explains to us the importance of the soldiers and the incredibly brave things they did for us.

14. What is the poets’ message in the poem? I think John McCrae’s message in this poem is to always remember the soldiers who died fighting for us and for our country and to remind us and try to get us to understand what they went through during the war and how important it is for us not to forget them.