Waltzing Matilda

This week in reading we explored a famous Australian ballad poem called Waltzing Matilda, by a famous poet, Banjo Paterson. This poem was about a swagman who stole a sheep, but the police came to catch him. Instead of going to jail, the swagman jumped in the waterhole. To learn and understand more about the poem, we wrote a summary and the main idea of Waltzing Matilda. For the main ideas there were 3 reasons to back up the main idea. There were some old words in the poem, which were: waltzing (walking on foot), matilda (swag bag), swagman (seasonal worker), jumbuck (sheep), and billabong (waterhole).