School Name / Miami and Burleigh Heads State Schools
Subject / English / Topic / Writing / Year / 3
Description / Sample Unit 7 pre-assessment task
Instructions / · Read the poem ‘Click Go the Shears’ by Banjo Paterson
· Ask the children to focus on how language has been used to create the mood of the poem. Ask them to think about why Banjo might have written this poem. View the “YouTube” version to help explain the meaning to the children.
Task designed by / Di Joske
Petrina Lewis / Contact / Janelle Dickman 0467 777 965
Click go the Shears
By Banjo Paterson
Out on the board the old shearer stands
Grasping his shears in his long bony hands
Fixed is his gaze on a bare-bellied "joe"
Glory if he gets her, won't he make the ringer go
Chorus
Click go the shears boys, click, click, click
Wide is his blow and his hands move quick
The ringer looks around and is beaten by a blow
And curses the old snagger with the blue-bellied "joe"
In the middle of the floor in his cane-bottomed chair
Is the boss of the board, with eyes everywhere
Notes well each fleece as it comes to the screen
Paying strict attention if it's taken off clean
The colonial-experience man he is there, of course
With his shiny leggin's just got off his horse
Casting round his eye like a real connoisseur
Whistling the old tune "I'm the Perfect Lure"
Student Name / Class / Date
What is the purpose of the text?
Highlight with a pink, green, blue and orange pencil, one use of:
• Onomatopoeia (pink)• Alliteration (green)
• Adjectives (blue)
• Rhyme (orange)
How has the author of the text used language features and devices to build the mood and image? Use examples in the poem to support your opinion.
TEACHER NOTE: If you feel you need more writing evidence to support pre-assessment data following the data collected in Unit 5 and 6 ask students to complete the following task:
· Write 5 lines to express your feelings and opinions about a school based issue using rhyme, alliteration, onomatopoeia, alliteration and adjectives.
ANSWER SHEET:
Click go the shears
(Traditional)
Out | on | the | board | _ | the | old | shear | er | stands, | _ | _ |
Grasp | ing | his | shears | in | his | long, | bo | ny | hands, | _ | _ |
Fixed | is | his | gaze | on | a | bare | -bel | lied | ‘joe’, | _ | _ |
Glor | y | (if he) | gets | her, | (won’t he) | make | the | (ring er) | go. |
Chorus
Click | go | the | shears | _ | boys, | click, | click, | click, |
Wide | is | the | blow | and | his | hands | _ | move | quick, | _ |
The | (ring er) | looks | a | round | and | is | (beat en) | by | a | blow, | _ |
And | curs | es | (the old) | snag | ger | with the | blue | -bel | lied | ‘joe’. |
In | the | mid | dle | (of the) | floor | in | his | cane | -bot | tomed | chair |
Is | the | boss | of | the | board, | _ | with | eyes | eve | ry | where; | _ | _ |
Notes | well | each | fleece | as | it | comes | to | the | screen, | _ | _ |
Pay | ing | (strict at) | ten | tion | (if it’s) | tak | en | off | clean. |
Chorus
Click | go | the | shears | _ | boys, | click, | click, | click, |
Wide | is | the | blow | and | his | hands | _ | move | quick, | _ |
The | (ring er) | looks | a | round | and | is | (beat en) | by | a | blow, | _ |
And | curs | es | (the old) | snag | ger | with the | blue | -bel | lied | ‘joe’. |
South East Region Learner Resource template V1 – Aug 2013
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