This week we studied the poem of Henry Lawson, "When the Children Come Home". It speaks of the bush people who worked hard and brought up their children but saw them leave home for adventures, work and life in the city. The widow in this poem is all by herself keeping the family home and acreage together and living a lonely life.
Henry Lawson unlike Banjo Patterson had a sad and lonely life.
Our homework for this week was to find out about Henry Lawson or to discuss why the children might leave their country homes as they still do today.
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