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How does the final line differ from the last lines of the other stanzas?  The final line differs because it tells us about the main idea of the poem and it also has one more line than the others.

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How are the chicks described? The chicks are described by child-like.  The women? The women are described by geese-like.  The men? The men are described by warrior-like.  What language feature is used? The language feature used are similes.

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What does “unicorn-like” describe?  Unicorn-like describes the horses in stanza one.  In stanza one it says 'We were betting kids my sister and I. Horses flew unicorn-like around the racecourse when Dad’s bets were up.'

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Where is the action happening?  The action is happening in the fourth stanza.  The fourth stanza is about rugby league.  Does each stanza have an adverbial phrase?  Yes, every stanza has a abverbial phrase.

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Look at the specific nouns – horses, chicks, women, men. What do they do? The specific nouns make the poem more special and easier to read.

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What is the same in each stanza?  In each stanza there is My sister and I.  What is the effect of that repetition?  The effect of that is that you get My sister and I in your head in every line.

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Do you think these would have been the only things they did with their dad? I don't think this is the only things they did with their dad because I have done more than four things with my dad and I am probably around the same age as them.  Is this a happy memory?  I think this is a happy memory.    What makes us think that?  Because if my dad died I would think of all of our memories together and that would make me happy to know that I did heaps with him during his years.

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How do we get an idea of how she felt about her dad? We get an idea that the she loved her dad because everything she did in that story she did as a family and the way the wrote it it sounded like she loved him very much.

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How much do you think the writer wants us to know about her childhood?  I think the writer really wants us to know about her childhood because the whole poem was about her childhood.

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How do we get an idea of what she thought of these experiences?  We get an idea that she thought these experiences because in every line she put examples of what her dad did and at the end of the story she write all of the things they were when they were kids when there dad was alive.

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Leilani Tamu is a New Zealand poet and politician.  Leilani was born in Auckland, New Zealand.  She published her first poetry collection in 2014 and her second collection  in 2017.

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What is the writer telling us?  The writer is telling us about her childhood with her sister and her dad.  She also tells us that here dad had died.

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Why would she have written this poem?  She would have written this poem to show how here childhood was like and that if you don't have a dad you're not the only going through that as well.