This term we are studying the poem Tam O’Shanter by Robert Burns. We were really interested in the verse:
The wind blew as ‘twad blawn its last;
The rattling showers rose on the blast;
The speedy gleams the darkness swallow’d
Loud, deep and lang the thunder bellow’d:
That night, a child might understand,
The Deil had business on his hand.
We noticed that Burns used onomatopoeia to describe how terrible the storm really was and we looked at each word individually. Miss Gunning split us into three different rows with the word ‘loud’ ‘deep’ or ‘lang’ to focus on. We re-created this storm using sound only – here is our video 😀
