Our James K. Baxter poetry

We began with the line

The town was usual enough: it had

We all had to close our eyes and think about what our place looked like, who was important, and then use some descriptive vocabulary to create a vivid picture for our readers.

We had to play around with lots of ideas, writing up and redrafting our thinking. Having the poem to model our writing on gave us a clear plan to use.

We all discovered that using the synonym function in Word was very useful.

Hopefully you can see the pictures of our place we have tried to share.