This task is about using evidence to predict and make inferences from a poem.
Read the first three verses of the poem Boy's Song by Sam Hunt (School Journal, Part 3, No. 3: The Sleepy Giant & other poems, 1989). Then complete the tasks below.
Task One: Visualise each verse as a film clip, then fill in the storyboard below. Make a prediction for the fourth verse.
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Describe your prediction for verse four:
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Explain why you think the poem will end the way you predicted:
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Task 2: Read verse four of Boy's Song and then answer the following questions.
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This verse could be interpreted in different ways. Describe what you think it means:
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Explain why you think it means that:
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What clues does the writer give in the first three verses that help you make a prediction for verse four?
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