Rose Bay Secondary College A Learning And Responding
Subject: My New Dawn by Alison
Matrix (ALARM) RESPONSE / NOTE TAKING SCAFFOLD
RBSC acknowledges M.Woods (2009) as the creator of ALARM
Use language and/or visual techniques to evaluate how successful the texts are in representing and informing us
Question/Content:
about the issues surrounding transformations.
IDENTIFY / DESCRIBE / EXPLAIN /
OUTLINE DEFINE DISCUSS
WHAT? WHAT? WHY?
WHAT is it? WHAT is it? WHAT is it?
WHAT does it do? WHAT does it do?
WHY does it do it?
Put with my treasures, Repetition The use of repetition of
safely away / Gone, gone, Metaphor the word gone is poem shows that the
gone is my past / Buried Rhyme reinforcing the idea that
in deep earth, buried at the author has gotten
last over the mistakes that
she made in her past.
The metaphor of Buried
in deep earth shows that
the mistakes in her past is
something that she
doesnt want anyone else
to find out about because
she has transformed.
The rhyme is used to
create movement and
show that the author is
ready to change and
move on.
ANALYSE
HOW?
WHAT is it?
WHAT does it do?
WHY does it do it?
HOW does it do it?
The beginning of the In this poem, the issue
surrounding
author has made
mistakes in the past and
through the words in the
poem she is telling the
reader that she is ready
to move on from them.
By using repetition,
metaphors and rhyme,
she is reinforcing this idea
in the reader.
Stormwolf
EVALUATE /
CRITICALLY
ASSESS /
ANALYSE
JUSTIFY
SHOW RELATIONSHIPS MAKE A JUDGEMENT
WHAT is it? WHAT is it?
WHAT does it do? WHAT does it do?
WHY does it do it? WHY does it do it?
HOW does it do it? HOW does it do it?
WHAT does it LEAD TO? WHAT does it LEAD TO?
HOW WELL does it do it?
The Poem My New
Dawn displays the poets
transformations is that transformation of making
the poet has made mistakes in her past that
mistakes in her past that has negatively affected
she doesnt want people her, but eventually she
to know about and she was transformed by it
has finally gotten as well and is to move on and
as throughout the poem forget about it. The poet
she is transforming from successfully showed this
it. By using the line transformation
Gone, gone, gone is my throughout the poem by
past the poet is telling using many techniques
the reader that she has throughout the verses of
gotten over the mistakes the poem.
in her past. By using the
second and third line, the
poet is showing that she
doesnt need anybody to
know about hr past
because she is ready to
transform and move on.
Give me a new song, one
with great joy / Give me a
new heart, that none can
destroy
Spirit of new Birth, spirit
of power / Come, Holy
Spirit, enter this hour /
Never forsake me, never
let go
Anaphora The use of anaphora in This quote shows that the The issue surrounding Overall, the poem My
Enjambment the phrase Give me a poet is in the middle of transformations in this New Dawn illustrates
Rhyme new is emphasising the going through a poem is that before the poets transformation
idea of the poet going transformation and is writing the poem, the of having gone through or
through a transformation using the poem to show poet went through done something bad in
while making the reader that she is trying to something in her past her past where people
emotionally feel for them. recreate herself stronger that she doesnt want looked at her negatively
and better than before. people to know about for it, but eventually she
The poet uses By using anaphora, and has finally gotten got over it and is
enjambment to show the enjambment and rhyme, over it and throughout transforming and
two different ways she the poet is creating a the poem she is changing from it. The
wants to recreate herself sense of hope and transforming from it. By poet successfully shows
and how the line flow goodwill to show that she using Give me a new this throughout the
from one another. is going through a song, one with great joy, verses of the poem by
positive transformation. the poet is showing that using techniques to show
The Rhyme is used to she is ready for people to her transformation from
create movement and look at her in a good way it.
relate the two different without any negative
types of transformations connotations. By using
each other and show that the second line, the poet
the poet is going through is showing that she is
both of them. ready to not only have
people look at her in a
new way, but to look at
herself in a good way as
well as be positive.
Rhyme The rhyme in this quote is The last stanza of the The issue surrounding The poem My New
Anaphora used to create a sense of poem shows that the transformations in this Dawn demonstrates the
1st Person flow and continue the poet has finished going poem is that the poet has kind of transformation
Pronoun phrase to the next line. through her made mistakes in her that the poet has gone
transformation and is past that she doesnt through. This
The use of the anaphora asking god and the spirits want people to know transformation was
of the word Spirit to help her start a new about because she has making mistakes in her
illustrates the poets chapter in her life full of finally gotten over it and past that negatively
connection to god and is hope and joy. By using throughout the poem she affected her, but she
showing that she is calling rhyme, anaphora and the showed her eventually got over it and
on the spirits to give first person pronoun, the transformation from it. By has transformed from it.
her one more chance as poet is emphasising that using the first two lines, The poet successfully
she has finished a very big the poet is asking for help shows this
 she has now finished her transformation in her life and guidance through the transformation
transformation. and is ready to move on next stage of life. By using throughout the entirety
and never look back or the quote Never forsake of the poem by using
The poet is using a first make the same mistakes me, never let go, the many different
person pronoun with the again. poet is emphasing that techniques to show her
word me to emphasise she wants the help and transformation.
that it is her that has guidance to forever as
gone through the well as always let her be
transformation and positive.
doesnt want to go back.
Conceptualise Topic: (What did we learn; what is the essential idea?)
Through the poem My New Dawn I have learnt about the transformation of making mistakes in your past and then transforming from it into a better person.
Appreciate Topic: (How is this topic important for life; why should we learn about it?)
I think it is important to learn about transformations because it is important to understand the type of transformations that people are going through.