4TO Medio Writing

Text Poem “APO And the father wrote, “please don´t

96225” write such depressing letters. You ´re
upsetting your mother.” So, after a
Skill WRITING while, the young man wrote, “Sure
Schedule 3 hours rains a lot here…”
Adapted from
Contemporary´s Whole Language Series Reinforcement
EXPRESSIONS Reported Speech: it is used when you want to
Stories and poems tell somebody else what has been said, in a
Expecting Learning direct speech or in report speech.

Ex Tom said “I´m feeling ill” ( direct speech)

Student will be able to:
Tom said that he was feeling ill ( reported
• Analyze a short poem speech)
• Deduce information .
• Explain feelings Maria said “ I´m pregnant” (direct speech)
Maria Said that she was pregnant (reported
• Paraphrase the information . speech)
• Summarize information
• Write a paragraph Emphasizer (quite, really, etc.) is used to
Linguistic Content emphasize. ex we´re quite concerned ( means
we are absolutely worried about the situation)
Function : Analysis of Poems /Deduce
Metaphors
Act 1 Reflect and Write the answer
Report Speech.
the following.
Morphosyntactic
Emphasizers (quite, a lot, really, What three facts about Vietnam does the
spectacular) soldier tell in his first letters home?
Simple Past /Punctuation
Direct and Reported Speech. Why does he keep in secret what is
Glossary happening in the war?
APO : stand for Army Post Office; the title
refers to a soldier´s address Do his parents really want to know the
Reading between the lines: she knows truth about what is happening in the war?
his son is holding something back
Holding back: to keep an information for The soldier´s address is given but not his
oneself name.
Why might the poet have decided to leave
“ APO 96225” the soldier and his family nameless?

A young man once went off to war in

a far country.
When he had time, he wrote home
and said, “sure rains here a lot”.
But his mother, reading between the
lines, wrote, “we´re quite concerned.
Tell us what it´s really like”
And the young man responded,
“Wow, you ought to see the funny
monkeys!”
To which the mother replied, “don´t
hold back, how is it?” And the young
man wrote, “the sunsets here are
spectacular.”
In her next letter the mother wrote,
“son we want you to tell us
Act 2 Write your opinions
Soldiers enjoy getting letters. Explain why
letters from home are so important to
them.
Write about a time when you held back
from telling somebody the truth to keep
from upsetting the person. Do you think
you made the right decision?, why or why
not?
The poem ends with the soldier writing a
letter that says, “Sure rains a lot here…”
What do you think the soldier´s parents
everything.”
So the next time he wrote, “Today I
killed a man. Yesterday I helped drop
napalm on women and children.
Tomorrow we are going to use gas.”
write in their letter back to him?
While Writing
Write a poem, where you express feelings,
emotions, wishes, etc. you have to write
more than a half of a page using 1,5
spacing, arial 12. You have to use
reported speech at least 3 times.