Today, we have spent much of our day in Camelot! We created our own knights and wrote letters from King Arthur, to explain why they had been chosen to join the Knights of the Round Table and to tell them about the quest they needed to go on.
By Darcy
By D
By Jack N.
Some of us wrote such fabulous letters that we were crowned ourselves!
Later in the morning, we read the fourth and final part of 'The Lady of Shalott'- it was a tragic but powerful ending. Mrs Parrott was blown away by our poetry analysis- we identified that the song she sang linked to the funeral songs she heard in Part One. We decided that her white robes had lots of connotations (our new favourite word!)- they made us think of purity, innocence, religious robes, an angel or Jesus- because he was also an innocent person who was killed. We also made a connection to the Bible by noticing that when she died the skies turned black and there was a storm, just like Good Friday. We thought that the darkening skies were definitely a clue that something bad was coming.
The Lady of Shalott, Waterhouse. Source: wikipedia
Then, we looked closely at the structure of Tennyson's 'The Lady of Shalott'. We counted the lines in each verse and noticed the rhyme patterns and repeated phrases. Next, Mrs Parrott challenged us to identify how many syllables or beats were in each line.
We found that the general pattern was:
8
8 The first four lines rhyme.
8
8
7 Ending in 'Camelot'
8
8 The next three lines rhyme.
8
6 Usually, 'The Lady of Shalott'
We used this structure to work together to write our own verse for the poem:
The tower
beneath a clouded coat,
In the
mirror she spied a boat,
She ran
down to the willow’d moat,
Upon the prow,
her name she wrote,
She floated to tower’d Camelot.
With her
dying breaths she started to sing,
Her
mournful song, heard by the King,
She died
without a knight or ring;
The Lady
of Shalott.
By St.
Clare’s Class
Finally, we had a try at writing our own verses-
it was a very tricky challenge!
By Francis
By Elizabeth
By Mina
By Finn
