Wednesday, 15 October 2008

KS3 English Homework - Black Heritage Month

As you know, this month is Black Heritage Month. Grace Nichols is a famous Black writer, originally from Guyana. Here is one of her poems entitled 'Beauty'.

Beauty
is a fat black woman
walking the fields
pressing a breezed
hibiscus
to her cheek
while the sun lights up
her feet

Beauty
is a fat black woman
riding the waves
drifting in happy oblivion
while the sea turns backto hug her shape


TASK 1: Read the poem two or three times, and think about the poem's message.

TASK 2: Post up your own version of the poem (click on 'comments' and follow the instructions), starting with 'Beauty is...' Think about the message you want to send through your language choices. Don't forget to put your NAME AND FORM at the bottom of your post.



38 comments:

Miss Druce's Students said...

Beauty
is an moonpig avert when there is
nothink on t.v
Beauty
is going oxford street when your bored on sunday
Beauty
is having fun in foodtech and having laughing fits
Beauty
is having good friends and enjoying life



BY PARRI DESAI 8I
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Miss Druce's Students said...

beauty
is everyone laughing
in a happy world full of peace
where there is no hate
no sorrow
nothing but happiness

beauty
is us as one
where no one is left out
and no one feels alone

beauty
is something everyone should feel
no matter where they are
or where they come from
or what they believe in

beauty
is something everyone should feel

by Ellie W 8I

Miss Druce's Students said...

Beauty is a girl riding on her bike
Baeauty is a girl who knows what she likes
Beauty shows you who you are
Beauty shines like a star

Hope you like my poem Miss Druse

Alice 8I

Miss Druce's Students said...

Beauty
is dressing up
with all my girls
with the straighters
and the curls

Beauty
is rosy cheeks
and crisp leaves
on the winters snow

Beauty
can be everything
some of which
we'll never know

Miss Druce's Students said...

Beauty
is a united nation which lives in peace with no war

Beauty
is a kingdom/community which help and care for one anther with no hate or jealousy


Tommy Vo 9A

Miss Druce's Students said...

beaty is having lovely friends,no matter what colour,Black or white,
beauty is so important in life,
beauty is kindness,forgiveness and love.



Amy H.H
8S

Miss Druce's Students said...

beauty is like fire
That withholds immediate consumption
The sheer nerve of the pressure
That forces itself upon us
With no thought of interruption

To grow into heart that beauty is what comes from within
Not your skin
Or your embellished face
All materialism is a sin

But all I can say are words that foretell the results of such a bourdon
To want to be so beautiful
The need to be so beautiful
Will soon end in corruption

Until you are nothing but a pile of ash
Your soul burnt to a crisp
Just look upon your charred remains
And forever you will wish

That beauty comes from within
So correct me if I am wrong
But if you take beauty as an appearing grace
Then you need to look within
Because someone loves you for whom you are
Not your hair
not Your face
not Your skin

what beauty is by hasan aydin 9h

Miss Druce's Students said...

I think that the poem means that whatever you look like you will always be beautiful and you will always be loved.

What ever you look like
you will always be loved,
you are as soft and gentle
as a beautiful black dove.

Gliding in the autumn
through the falling leaves,
and singing in the spring
with the brite colouful bees.

Ellie Paterson 8I

Miss Druce's Students said...

beauty
is every one laughing
dont matter is your black
or white

English Department said...

MESSAGE FROM MISS DRUCE:

"Great poems everyone! It is very interesting to see so many different interpretations of what beauty is. Keep them coming, and don't forget to write your name and form at the bottom of your poem."

Miss Druce's Students said...

Beauty
is a baby smiling at it's mother
Beauty
is a chld first learning how to ride a bike
Beauty
is taking a first school pictre

Hannah 8I

Miss Druce's Students said...

Beauty is
a ball hitting the back of the net
Beauty is
a cricket ball hitting the stumps
Beauty is
coming first in a swimming race
Beauty is
winning a point in tennis
Beauty is
speeding round a cycle track
Beauty is
scoring a try in rugby
Beauty is
watching your team win a game
Beauty is
gaining a point in badminton
Beauty is...
well-anything you want it to be!

Miss Druce's Students said...

Beauty is who you are, not what you are.
Beauty goes on inside us like a black hole that never ends.

Beauty lives on when you die.
Beauty isn't what you see in the mirror, nor when you dress up and tell a lie.

Beauty isn't jewelry, or a gold ring.
Beauty is a spiraling pit of love that moves around like a silent ghost never to be noticed but popping up like spring.

Beauty consumes us in one large wave.
Powers through us and can make us a slave.
Beauty it's self is not always beauty, but love is the best medicine.


Roman P. Stevens
9A

Miss Druce's Students said...

beauty
is not about hair and clothes
beauty
is not about shoes or earrings
beauty
is not about skin colour
beauty
is about friends and being yourself


MADELEINE SELLERS 8S

Miss Druce's Students said...

Beauty
Is a person who loves
With out jealousy
In a cheerful world
Nothing but happiness


Beauty
Is going on holiday
With family or friend's
If their no family or friends
There’s no beauty

Beauty
Is having fun
Playing out
Or messing around in
Shopping centre

Beauty
Is a person who
Likes his food
When he goes
KFC 24 7

Beauty
Is what you care about?
Where you don't care what
Others thing

Beauty
Is when u watch T.V
And man u is winning
But beauty is
Horrible when man u
Is trailing behind

With out beauty
There no life
On the universe

From Simon Hoang 9I

Miss Druce's Students said...

beauty
is kindness,sharing and honesty
not what how we look but the way you felt that day when you got your picture took.

beauty
is something you feel inside of you not what people think.
you can wear what colour you wish red,green,blue and even bright pink!

batuhan 9g

Miss Druce's Students said...

Beauty is everyone, white, black, blue or green

Beauty is life, it a beautiful dream.

Beauty is when you believe in yourself,

Beauty is love in sickness and in health.

Dannielle Lashley 9a

Miss Druce's Students said...

Beauty is a funny thing
People can't agree
What might be beautiful to you
Might not be to me

Beauty is the strangest thing
People get confused
Is it flowers, colours, music, art
Or is it lovely views

Beauty is a personal thing
But we should all agree
To enjoy what's beautiful to you
Or beautiful to me

by Jonah Richert 8I

Miss Druce's Students said...

Beauty
is when you see the people you love smiling

Beauty
is when a baby is born completely healthy

Beauty
is good or bad
happy or sad

Beauty
is you
whoever you are

Beauty
is life




Natasha Collett 9G

Miss Druce's Students said...

beauty
is a flower opening up its petals.
beauty
is enternal love that lasts forever and cannot be broken.
beauty
is fun and joy spreading everywhere to spread the happiness.
beauty
is what you personally find beautiful most.

By Alfie jenkins. 8s

Miss Druce's Students said...

Beauty is the light pink of snow
the dark red of coal
the deep blue of clouds

Beauty is a dull lamp
a hazy mirror
the warmth of frost

beauty is not always what you know
sometimes its hidden
like a deep dark secret
and sometimes its right there plain as ever

beauty is the inside colour in everyone,
black
and
white
Daniela Schamroth 9I

Miss Druce's Students said...

BEAUTY

Beauty is a lone flower
In an african plane,
Wating to be picked
By a black child passing by,
dressed in a pretty yellow robe.

Beauty is a river of clean blue water
Heading towards the sea,
Wating to be drunk
By a thirsty family,
Walking to a village.

But what if the flower did not grow?
Or the river dried up,?
The village was not built?
Where would the family be walking to?

Beauty is not a thing it is a way of thinking.


BY Eloise Cadman 8S

Miss Druce's Students said...

Beauty is lost to the destruction of humanity.
Beauty is stolen by cosmetics as a selling point
Beauty is an excuse for destroying the planet
But what is true beauty before it was taken? Beauty is a flower in a wasteland, a rainbow in a storm, a diamond in the mud.

Jamie Robertson 8s

kevin.k said...

beauty
is me and everyone else
beauty
is watching the sun rise in the morning
beauty
could be your inspiration for conquering task
beauty
can be what ever you

by kevin kwarteng (8s)

Miss Druce's Students said...

Beauty
is a friday evening when u put your feet up after a long day at school and watching the x factor
Beauty
is travelling to brent cross with a wallet stuffed full of cash that your meant to have been saving for something important and instead just splashing out on clothes and shoes
Beauty
is equal opportunities to every one and the knowledge gleaned from others experiances
Beauty
is whatever you want it to be and thats the beauty of it

by lucas cumiskey 9G

Miss Druce's Students said...

some people say beauty is about looks,
But it doesn't matter what you look like on the outside,
it doesn't matter what skin colour you have
As real beauty is the nice person you are deep deep inside.

Olivia Lee 8S

Miss Druce's Students said...

Beauty is the aspects of life which cant be described,
Love, inner vision and nature are a part of this.

There are two kinds of beauty;
On the inside with lovely nature and warm personalities,
And on the outside with beautiful appearances.

Beauty can be meant in anyway.

By Jayna Patel - 8S

Miss Druce's Students said...
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Miss Druce's Students said...

beauty is a boy walking 4 miles to get water to his family.
beauty is a girl running round his village happilly.
beauty is a man risking his life to kill a animal.
beauty is a women getting food for her family.

Adam Khan 8I H/W

Miss Druce's Students said...

Beauty is
is not having to get up in the morning

Beauty is
hanging with my mates

Beauty is
is doing rock all on a sunday with a brew

Beauty is
picking a scab and not leaving a scar

Beauty is ................................( fill in the gap )

By Joel Archer 8I

Miss Druce's Students said...

Beauty is...

Beauty
is Arsenal scoring a wonder goal coming back from 2 nil down
Beauty
is a snowy day when I don't have to go to school
Beauty
is brand new football boots on my birthday
Beauty
is knowing I can see my friends every day
Beauty
is wherever and whenever I want to find it.

James Shand 8S

Lily : ) said...

Beauty Is like a rainbow in a storm,

Beauty Is Fat, medium, skinny, black, mixed, white,

Beauty has no ugly, and ugly has no beauty,

Beauty is love, compassion, and understanding,

Beauty can be acheived by anyone,

Beauty is knowing how to handle it,

Beauty is tears and laughs,

Beauty makes you think,

Beauty isnt just outside and inside, but aslo to the mind,

True Beauty is like air, you cant touch it, but you can feel it inside,

Beauty is like a heart, beating, loving,

beauty is Like a childs innocence, and a mothers love,

Beauty is Graceful,

To withstand Beauty you are true to yourself,

And with that, you obtain Beauty.


Lily Biglari 8s

Miss Druce's Students said...

Dats the boy running away
Ramps and pavements around his home
Under the dark pillow lies his kome
Cave men trying to capture rome
Every one battling for there life


Burakcan arslan 9h

Miss Druce's Students said...

beauty is not beautiful
all of the time
beauty can be ugly
when you see whats inside
beauty can be ugly
and ugly can be beauty
beauty is most beautiful
when you wear it with a smile

bronwen morris 9h

Miss Druce's Students said...

Beauty is you.

Beauty comes in all different shapes and sizes.

Beauty is your parents watching you at your first football match.

Beauty is watching your little brother or sister taking their first steps.

Beauty is having your family around when you most need them.

Beauty is waking up with a smile on your face, knowing you will see your mother and father and brothers and sisters

Beauty is about sharing, caring and most of all love.

BY MOHAMED SAEED 9I

Miss Druce's Students said...

Beauty is something beyond your eyes
if all that you see is pre-defined.
Beauty is something you'll never touch
if all that you feel is hate and mistrust.
And beauty is something you'll never hear
if all that you feel is suspicion and fear.

Let beauty be empty
let beauty be full
let beauty be nothing;
be nothing at all.

Leora Stapleton 9G

Miss Druce's Students said...

beauty is a happyines and brightness .bueaty stays in us and its a black women at the street




bircan

Miss Druce's Students said...

beauty is a family laughung
beauty is your parent smiling
beauty is your friends huging
beauty is happynies inside you




by kezban