Poetry – Sample activity of integration

How do you feel about corporal punishment? Should children be disciplined? If so, how? Read ‘The whipping tree’ again. Imagine you are the son. Using poetic techniques and structures such as stanzas, rhyme, rhythm, punctuation and figures of speech, write a poem to that mother. Perhaps you understand and accept her actions. Perhaps you are angry with her. Perhaps you want to poem makes suggest other forms of discipline. Think about how the feel you and respond as if you are the son