Out of the ark

I tell the children in Year 6 "By the end of the lesson you need to have started work on a poem expressing the feelings of either Tom or Will at this point in the story." The book is set in 1939, in WWII. I remind them that poems need not rhyme.

One boy writes:

It's awful that you have gone away, I feel so alone
I think I will call you on my mobile phone.

A know-it-all girl sitting next to him reminds him that they didn't have mobile phones in WWII.
"Oh yeah", he says. He rubs out 'mobile' and writes in 'wooden'.