Year 7 English

This week in Year 7 English, we completed our most recent unit of work on Adeline Yen Mah’s memoir ‘Chinese Cinderella’. The students worked towards completing a lantern poem on the events, characters and themes they had studied in the novel.

A lantern poem is a type of descriptive poetry that originates from Japan. A lantern poem is quite similar in format to a Haiku poem. Both types of poetry are short and rely on a syllable structure where the poet uses a limited number of syllables in each line. The Lantern poem uses five lines with a syllable structure of one, two, three, four and one syllables per line.

Below are some student examples: