Acle Academy

Basketball Sonnet Collaboration

Year 9 have been exploring sonnet writing in English and Micky teamed up with his visiting Chinese classmate, Zhu, to compose a sonnet about sport.

Discovering a shared love for basketball, they chose it as the theme of their poem. They wrote one line of each stanza in Mandarin, then read their poem aloud to the class—alternating between English and Mandarin. It sounded wonderful!

As a reward, they won a bag of chocolate. It was Zhu’s first time tasting English chocolate, and he said he absolutely loved it!