What's the poem about?

This week we made a summary about Banjo Paterson and his poem Waltzing Matilda. In this DLO we talked about the main idea in the poetry and the three main idea. I was working with maritea for this main idea DLO. We unpacked the literacy devices in the poetry that Banjo Paterson wrote. This Waltzing Matilda poetry was based in Australian. The meaning of the words (Waltzing) walking on foot, (Matilda) swag bag, (Swagman) seasonal worker, (Jumbuck) sheep, (Billabong) water hole. 

Banjo Paterson

This week for reading we were all making Summary about a Waltzing Matilda. Me and Maritea worked on this first we wrote down 20 important words, 6 most important words. Then we had to use those words to create a summary about the poem. Our summary tells others about Banjo Paterson was a famous writer who wrote the poem Waltzing Matilda. He is a rich man who liked to write poetry about people that were poor.