This is the original poem by James K Baxter. We altered it and changed it to have one of our own.
The success criteria we used to write this poem was:
1. choose a place that we wanted to do the poem on.
2. do a brainstorm on what 5 places that are in the town that you chose.
3. pick 5 nouns related to the place
4. pick 5 strong verbs.
5. Include; did what girls/boys do.
6. Include at the end, doing nothing important.
7. At the start say: The ___________ was usual enough; it had: